William Guild Howard:The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CLARA VIEBIG BURNING LOVE (1902) TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M. Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University [HERE were fires in the village. It was always at night that they broke out, now here, now there; and this had been going on for eight weeks. The corn in the fields had just come Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CLARA VIEBIG BURNING LOVE (1902) TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M. Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University [HERE were fires in the village. It was always at night that they broke out, now here, now there; and this had been going on for eight weeks. The corn in the fields had just come to the full ear when on a dark evening the first blaze was discovered. Since that time the fearful guest had visited no less than ten cottages. The damage had indeed been slight. One peasant had the reeds and thatch of his low-hanging roof a little singed. In another house the side of bacon left from last winter's pig and still hanging from the beam under the roof had been made to sizzle a bit. At a third, the brushwood that children had gathered and piled up along the wall had crackled and snapped, until the wife, wakened by her infant's cries, thought some one out there was stealing her kindling. At a fourth, the frightened lowing of the cow revealed a smouldering in the hay-loft. At the fifth, the name did not even get started; for a downpour of rain had beaten upon the attic and quenched whatever of fire was lurking in the timbers. In every case the protection of all the saints had been plain to see. Nevertheless, a secret horror began to worry the minds of the villagers. " I warrant," said a wiseacre, contracting the brown leather of his brow in suspicious wrinkles," some scalawag is doing this!" Yes, it could not be otherwise: there was somebody setting fires! The children could not be the guilty ones - they were led by hand or carried in the dosser out into the fields; or, if it happened that they were left behind, their mother did not fail to hide the matches on the topmost shelf beyond their reach. But had not Annie Marie, watching alone by the cra Books, History~~General, German-Classics-Of-The-Nineteenth-And-Twentieth-Centuries~~William-Guild-Howard, 999999999, The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, William Guild Howard, 0559999402, BiblioBazaar, , , , , BiblioBazaar<
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CLARA VIEBIG BURNING LOVE (1902) TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M. Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University [HERE were fires in the village. It was always at night that they broke out, now here, now there; and this had been going on for eight weeks. The corn in the fields had just come to the full ear when on a dark evening the first blaze was discovered. Since that time the fearful guest had visited no less than ten cottages. The damage had indeed been slight. One peasant had the reeds and thatch of his low-hanging roof a little singed. In another house the side of bacon left from last winter's pig and still hanging from the beam under the roof had been made to sizzle a bit. At a third, the brushwood that children had gathered and piled up along the wall had crackled and snapped, until the wife, wakened by her infant's cries, thought some one out there was stealing her kindling. At a fourth, the frightened lowing of the cow revealed a smouldering in the hay-loft. At the fifth, the name did not even get started; for a downpour of rain had beaten upon the attic and quenched whatever of fire was lurking in the timbers. In every case the protection of all the saints had been plain to see. Nevertheless, a secret horror began to worry the minds of the villagers. " I warrant," said a wiseacre, contracting the brown leather of his brow in suspicious wrinkles,'' some scalawag is doing this!'' Yes, it could not be otherwise: there was somebody setting fires! The children could not be the guilty ones they were led by hand or carried in the dosser out into the fields; or, if it happened that they were left behind, their mother did not fail to hide the matches on the topmost shelf beyond their reach. But had not Annie Marie, watching alone by the cra Books Books ~~ History~~ General German-Classics-Of-The-Nineteenth-And-Twentieth-Centuries~~William-Guild-Howard BiblioBazaar This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.<
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