Fighting With Fate, Tr. From the Germ. of E. Marlitt

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. '"PHE following morning saw the Manor House early astir. Herr Markus saw pretty little Louisa wandering about on the new mown meadow. She wore a light morning gown, and her thick fair hair was gathered up in a white net with bows of blue ribbon. The young girl was evidently in search of something she had lost. She pushed aside the stray wisps of hay the night wind had scattered, and herself shook out the heaps lying near her. The two maid-servants who were just on their way to the field--they were carrying hoes--stood looking on and laughing. "You never set foot in the hay yesterday evening, Miss Louisa--I ought to know," said the girl who had got her dismissal. "You needn't look a step further, it's a pity to waste the time. We're none of us so blind as to rake away your medallion. A gold thing like that glitters, and nobody in their senses could mistake a yard of black velvet ribbon for a blade of grass, besides, I heard you with my own ears tell your mamma that you'd put your medallion as usual in the glass tray on the drawers. Now, all of a sudden, that's supposed to be a mistake, because every one in the place declares that nobody could have taken it except--well, I won't put my foot in it a second time." "It's very wicked of you to say that, Rosa," burst out the young girl indignantly. "A man with such a good countenance couldn't steal," the childish voice was evidently struggling with tears. "Indeed, I never think those kind of things." "Don't you. Pray then, why did he go and take French leave? So early too, without saying, 'with your leave or by your leave'. But it's all the same to me, it's no business of mine. I don't care where the medallion is, I haven't got it." So saying she shouldered her hoe and marched off to the field with ...