Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
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THE BOOK. In the morning the master of the house rapped on Leonhard's door and said: "When you come down I have something to show you." The voice of Mr. Loretz had almost its accustomed cheerfulness of tone, and he ended his remark with a brief "Ha! ha!" peculiar to him, which not only expressed his own good-humor, but also invited good-humored response. Leonhard answered cheerily, and in a few moments he had descended the steep uncovered stair to the music-room. "Now for the book," Loretz called out as Leonhard entered. How handsome our young friend looked as he stood there shaking hands with the elderly man, whose broad, florid face now actually shone with hospitable feeling! "Is father going to claim you as one of us, Mr. Marten?" asked the wife of Loretz, who answered her husband's call by coming into the room and bringing with her a large volume wrapped in chamois skin. "What shall I be, then?" asked Leonhard. "A wiser and a better man, I do not doubt." "What! you do not know?" the good woman stayed to say. "Has nobody told you where you are, my young friend?" |
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