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+Title: The Story Of The Little Mamsell
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+Author: Charlotte Niese
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+Translator: Miss E. C. Emerson
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+Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23221]
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+Language: English
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+THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MAMSELL
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+By Charlotte Niese
+
+Translated from the German by Miss E. C. Emerson
+
+
+"Have you got something good? Then put the basket down and go along
+home!" This was one usual greeting from old Mahlmann when we brought
+him provisions. He was very old, and rarely out of his bed, only now and
+then on warm summer days he sat on the bench before his tiny cottage and
+basked in the sun. If a painter had ever strayed to our uninteresting
+little town he would certainly have put old Mahlmann's characteristic
+head on his canvas. He had a clever old face with a firm mouth and
+glittering eyes whose expression was so sombre and at the same time
+observant that we children imagined old Mahlmann was different from
+other people. And indeed so he was. To begin with he never thanked
+anyone for bringing him food; in fact he criticized freely the benefits
+he received. If one brought what was not to his liking, he would say:
+"Go home and tell your mother old Mahlmann is not a waste-tub where you
+throw what's not fit to eat. You needn't come again either!"
+
+In this manner he got himself into disfavor with many a good housewife,
+who would protest by all that was holy that never would she send the
+hoary old sinner anything again. But Mahlmann never cared. His needs
+were few and there was always some one to satisfy them.
+
+For me the old man with the sombre eyes had a peculiar fascination; I
+think from the fact that he once told me a wonderful ghost-story. There
+were at least half a dozen witches and a whole dozen ghosts in this
+tale, and for many nights after I went to bed in tears, and only on
+condition some one sat with me till I fell asleep. Still the spell of
+these horrors was so strong upon me that I visited Mahlmann all the
+more» and often bought him something out of my own slender pocket-money
+to induce him to tell stories. I was not always successful, for the old
+man had morose moods, when he spoke little. At other times he would tell
+us his own experiences, and his life had not lacked variety. He had been
+in Paris at the time of the Revolution, as servant to a Danish officer
+of high rank, and his description "how the fine gentlemen all rode in an
+old butcher's cart to have their heads chopped off," left nothing to the
+imagination. "My Baron was once near going himself to the 'Gartine,'
+or whatever they call it," he told me one day when he was especially
+talkative; "but he got well out of it. He was one that could turn the
+heads of the women, and it was a woman got him safely out of the city."
+
+Mahlmann sat on the bench before the door and stretched his skinny hands
+to the sun. About his shoulders he had a ragged coat which had once
+been red, but was now a coat of many colors. It was so hot that I
+took shelter in the shadow of the doorway, but the chilly old man was
+shivering. I had brought him a great piece of cake and now offered it to
+him. He slowly reached for it, and slowly ate it up.
+
+"That's like what I used to get in Paris. Dear me! My Baron was a
+handsome man, and for my age, I must have been about fifteen, I was a
+sharp lad--only I couldn't rightly understand their French lingo, which
+put me out. But I understood the affair of the little Mamsell well
+enough. She lived opposite; her father was a grocer and she helped in
+the shop. At first we didn't buy anything there, till a long-legged
+Englishman told my Baron that this grocer kept a fine Hungarian wine. It
+was out of the King's wine-cellar and he wasn't drinking any more wine
+because he had gone to the 'Gartine/ And a few sensible people had
+divided the wine, which was only right, and it was to be had very cheap.
+Then I went over and bought some. Mamsell Manon was in the shop, and
+laughed till she cried over my way of speaking. Then I got angry, and
+when I brought my Baron the wine I said that I wasn't going again to
+that stupid Mamsell who couldn't even understand German. The next day my
+master was for sending me again, but I rebelled. 'Herr Baron,' I said,
+'you can give me the whip because I'm only a servant, but I won't go
+again to that silly girl opposite, and if you make me I'll accuse you to
+the authorities of being an aristocrat. We're all free and equal now, I
+can understand that much French, and I'll be sorry if you have to go to
+the "Gartine," but I won't be ill-treated!'
+
+"My Baron looked at me queerly, but he listened to reason, and I didn't
+have to go to the Mamsell again because he went himself. And then he
+made friends with Mamsell Manon, and she came over and brought the
+King's wine herself. When I knew her better she wasn't bad; she laughed
+a good deal, and sang all the time like a little bird, but one can't go
+against nature. And she was a good girl too, for once when my Baron put
+his arm around her and tried to kiss her, she boxed his ears. I never
+knew my master could look such a fool. The fine gentlemen don't always
+get their way."
+
+Mahlmann nodded once or twice and ate some crumbs of cake before he went
+on.
+
+"No, they don't always get their way," he continued. "My Baron wanted
+to stay longer in Paris, though many of his noble friends lay already
+in the lime-pit with their heads off. He didn't want to go away, and
+sat half the day in the shop with Mamsell Manon, and said a Dane wasn't
+afraid of the French--they'd not do anything to him! Things never turn
+out as one expects, and one evening my Baron was fetched away by a
+couple of long soldiers. That was unpleasant I can tell you. My master
+had been at me sometimes with the whip, and I didn't care specially
+about him; but to be all alone in such a crazy town where there's not a
+Christian that understands a word you say, it's enough to give you the
+horrors. Then the next morning Mamsell Manon came and talked to me, and
+cried dreadfully, and stroked my cheeks, and I understood her all right
+in spite of that jabbering French. Mamsell thought a cousin of hers had
+got the Baron put in prison, because he was jealous. I don't know what
+more she said, but I soon found out what she wanted, and my hair stood
+on end. She wanted to borrow my confirmation suit that I had only had on
+three times; once at the confirmation, then for communion, and then when
+I came to the Baron to apply for the place. It was lying in my trunk
+because I had always worn livery, and when the French wouldn't have
+liveries any more, the Baron gave me an old gray suit of his. When
+Mamsell insisted upon having my best clothes I naturally said, 'nong,
+nong,' and shook my head till I was dizzy, but Manon patted me and
+coaxed me, and sure as the world she got her way, as women always
+do. All at once I had got my trunk unlocked and she ran away with my
+confirmation coat and all the rest of the tilings. And I was still
+looking after her with my mouth open, when she came back dressed like a
+man!"
+
+Mahlmann was silent for a moment and wrapped himself with a shiver in
+his red coat.
+
+"Dear me! how cold it always is now; it used to be warm in July. Things
+never turn out as one expects. The little Mamseli had promised me
+faithfully I should have my good clothes back--yes, indeed--bless you!
+But I must say she looked downright pretty in my best black suit, and I
+saw why she hadn't worn clothes of the Baron's, or of her own father's.
+He was short and fat, and the Baron was tall and broad-shouldered,
+and the little one would not have looked well in their things. Now she
+looked like a real boy, and like two boys we ran to one of the many
+prisons where the aristocrats were, I With a basket and she with a
+basket, with bread and writing-paper, and we took them to the wife
+of one of the gaolers who earned a lot of money by selling them. The
+aristocrats were always writing letters, which shows what do-nothings
+they were; for an honest man has a tongue to talk with, and doesn't need
+to make marks on paper to kill time. We went to the great prison two or
+three times; I stayed outside because I was afraid, but Mamseli Manon
+went in and talked with the gaolers. What more she did I don't know;
+I waited outside and thought of my confirmation suit, for the little
+Mamseli wasn't very careful of it. She had had it three days and took
+it home with her, and I never knew where it was when she was in the shop
+with her ordinary clothes on. It was always dark when we went out, then
+she'd come for me and we'd start* I must say she always brought me some*
+thing, a drop of wine or a bit of cake. The evening of the fourth day
+when I was waiting for her at the gate of the prison, someone seized
+hold of my shoulder and said in German, 'Forward!' It was my Baron who
+stood before me all at once and was in a devil of a hurry to get away.
+'Franz!' he said to me, 'be quick or I am lost!' 'Where is the little
+Mamsell?' I asked, 'and where is my confirmation suit?' Then he grabbed
+me by the arm and dragged me through the streets till I was out of
+breath. 'She will come,' he said half to himself, 'to-morrow the mistake
+will be cleared up, when I am out of the city. Her father will save
+her.' But though he was still pulling me along, I stopped short. 'Herr
+Baron,' I said, 'the little Mamsell has got on my best black suit, and
+the trousers were made out of the Herr Pastor's own, and I tell you if
+I don't get my suit that I was confirmed in, I'll go to the gentlemen
+of the head-chopping company and tell them you've broken out of prison,
+which they certainly won't like. For by rights all the aristocrats ought
+to go to the "Gartine," or whatever you call it, so that we can have
+"égalité" and liberty, and we poor fellows can amuse ourselves instead
+of having all the good times used up by the great gentlemen!' Then he
+looked at me as if he would like to kill me, but he couldn't do that,
+so he tried to talk me round with promises. Dear me! what didn't the man
+promise me! A bag full of money, and a pig every year, and every year a
+black suit, if I would only go quietly home with him. And he put on my
+finger on the spot a ring with a red stone that I had always fancied,
+so I went along quietly with him to his apartment that I had the key of.
+The Baron slept in my attic room, and I had to lie on the sofa in his
+best room to look as if I was trying to play the gentleman. The next day
+the Baron went out twice in a blue blouse with a cap on his head, and
+the second morning we both went on foot out of the city, in clothes that
+I wouldn't have liked to touch with a pair of tongs!"
+
+Mahlmann stopped and rubbed his left knee. "What rheumatism I do have!
+And in the month of July! Well, well, it's always the way when you begin
+to get old; I suppose I must be about ninety. My grandfather's aunt,
+though, was more than a hundred and only died then from eating too much
+at a pig-killing!" He sighed and nodded. "We've all got to be put under
+ground some day, but it's queer just the same what a difference there is
+about dying. I'm old now, and that time when I went through Paris in
+the early morning with a rag-bag on my back, and my Baron with just such
+another one, was the first time in my life that I ever thought of death,
+and it isn't a thought for a boy. It was because the carts were passing
+us with the aristocrats who were going to have their heads chopped off.
+I'd seen those old carts often enough and naturally thought nothing of
+it, because it was a good thing that the fine Monsieurs and Madames were
+got rid off; but this time it startled me, for the little Mamsell was in
+one of the ramshackle old wagons too. And the strangest of all was she
+still had on my confirmation suit that made her look like a pretty boy.
+She had folded her hands and looked as if she was going to communion.
+There weren't many people in the street,' it was so early, and I was
+just about to open my mouth and cry out that Mamsell had on my black
+suit and I wanted her to give it back, when my Baron clapped his hand
+over my mouth and I nearly choked. 'Donner-wetter' how he gripped me!
+But only a minute, for suddenly his strength gave out and he stood
+stock-still and began to tremble. He had looked at Manon and she at him.
+Such a smile came over her face and she bowed her head, and then the
+cart drove quickly on. My master stood in one spot for as much as a
+quarter of an hour, and big tears rolled down his cheeks. 'A horrible
+mistake!' he murmured, 'she told me she was in no danger, that her
+father would get her free the next day--he could not have found her!
+Heavenly Father, couldst thou not have pity on her youth and beauty?'
+He said much more and I got impatient when he wouldn't go on, and said,
+'Herr Baron, the little Mamsell is gone for good and all, I suppose, and
+my black suit too, so there's no chance of my ever seeing that again,
+but if we stay here much longer they'll take us to the "Gartine" too,
+and the little Mamsell wouldn't wish that, or why should she have made
+all this fuss about my suit. And by this time she's certainly in heaven,
+and that's a very good place they say!'
+
+"I talked like this to my Baron, till he began to walk, and went faster
+and faster, out through the city gates, and never looked back for me
+till we came to some houses where English lived in a village a few miles
+from Paris, where the French didn't make such a time as in the city
+itself. The English were going back to their own country, as all this
+was rather uncomfortable, and we traveled with them by slow stages to
+the coast, and then in a small boat to England, where they eat their
+beef too red for my taste; In other ways they live well enough, and I
+would have had nothing to complain of if my Baron had been a little more
+cheerful. He had forgotten how to laugh, had grown pale and silent, and
+nights instead of sleeping he lay groaning and muttering in French and
+Danish to himself. In his dreams he was always calling for Manon, a
+senseless thing to do since she couldn't come!"
+
+The old man looked thoughtfully toward the setting sun. "When I thought
+over the whole affair I felt dreadfully sorry about little Mam-sell. She
+was such a pretty little thing with short brown hair, and such laughing
+eyes as if there were no trouble or sorrow in the world. I was only
+a green lad then, and knew nothing about women, but the memory of her
+smile as she sat in the cart stayed by me. Afterward I once saw a baby
+lying in its coffin, that looked as content as Mamsell Manon did that
+day, going to lay her white neck on the block, I grew more reasonable
+as time went on and forgot my vexation over my black suit. The Baron
+treated me very decently, I can't complain. Later on, though, he
+decided we had better part, for I had grown too free in my manners in
+Paris, He gave me a good present and if I hadn't had all sorts of bad
+luck I might be a rich man now. But it's always so, there's no 'égalité'
+in this country, and if we don't have a good revolution it will never be
+any different. Though it doesn't always turn out well for everyone even
+then, The French grocer who did such a good business with the King's
+wine was one of those who could never get enough aristocrats killed; and
+finally his own flesh and blood went to her death for the sake of one of
+them. If misfortune is bound to come there's no getting out of it, and
+it came to me the time they said I belonged to that band of thieves
+there was such a talk about. I defended myself well, but all the same I
+was put in gaol in Gluckstadt, and there's no knowing how long I might
+have stayed there if it hadn't been for a lucky chance that brought the
+Danish king to see the prison, along with a lot of fine gentlemen.
+All of us convicts had to stand in rank and file while old Friedrich
+inspected us. And who should be behind the King but my Baron, with white
+hair and bent back, and a great star on his breast. They were going
+slowly past us, when I coughed, and he started and came close to me. 'Do
+I not know you?' he said, and I laughed a little. 'Herr Baron, do you
+remember the story of my best black suit?' He looked rather queer and
+drew his hand across his forehead as if he were wiping something off,
+and passed on. The next day one of the wardens took me to the Baron's
+house, and he asked why I was in prison. When he had heard all about it,
+he sighed and spoke softly to himself and then sighed again. At last he
+got up and put his hand on my arm. 'You knew her, Franz, and because you
+knew her------' he could get no further and I was taken away, and soon
+after pardoned out. So I saw that the Baron remembered my confirmation
+suit; and ten years after I saw him again in Kiel, in a bath-chair, for
+he couldn't walk. I went to see him and he sent me ten thalers, and his
+servant told me he had great trouble with his sons. He is long dead,
+which is a pity, for he often sent me something. Everything comes to
+an end, everything. In the morning when I lie in bed and can't sleep,
+I often think of little Manon who died in my black suit in the midst
+of the aristocrats, where she didn't belong, and my black suit didn't
+belong there either. Things never turn out as one expects, never!"
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+Title: The Story Of The Little Mamsell
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+Author: Charlotte Niese
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+Translator: Miss E. C. Emerson
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+    <h1>
+      THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MAMSELL
+    </h1>
+    <h2>
+      By Charlotte Niese
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h4>
+      Translated from the German by Miss E. C. Emerson
+    </h4>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Have you got something good? Then put the basket down and go along home!"
+      This was one usual greeting from old Mahlmann when we brought him
+      provisions. He was very old, and rarely out of his bed, only now and then
+      on warm summer days he sat on the bench before his tiny cottage and basked
+      in the sun. If a painter had ever strayed to our uninteresting little town
+      he would certainly have put old Mahlmann's characteristic head on his
+      canvas. He had a clever old face with a firm mouth and glittering eyes
+      whose expression was so sombre and at the same time observant that we
+      children imagined old Mahlmann was different from other people. And indeed
+      so he was. To begin with he never thanked anyone for bringing him food; in
+      fact he criticized freely the benefits he received. If one brought what
+      was not to his liking, he would say: "Go home and tell your mother old
+      Mahlmann is not a waste-tub where you throw what's not fit to eat. You
+      needn't come again either!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In this manner he got himself into disfavor with many a good housewife,
+      who would protest by all that was holy that never would she send the hoary
+      old sinner anything again. But Mahlmann never cared. His needs were few
+      and there was always some one to satisfy them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For me the old man with the sombre eyes had a peculiar fascination; I
+      think from the fact that he once told me a wonderful ghost-story. There
+      were at least half a dozen witches and a whole dozen ghosts in this tale,
+      and for many nights after I went to bed in tears, and only on condition
+      some one sat with me till I fell asleep. Still the spell of these horrors
+      was so strong upon me that I visited Mahlmann all the more» and often
+      bought him something out of my own slender pocket-money to induce him to
+      tell stories. I was not always successful, for the old man had morose
+      moods, when he spoke little. At other times he would tell us his own
+      experiences, and his life had not lacked variety. He had been in Paris at
+      the time of the Revolution, as servant to a Danish officer of high rank,
+      and his description "how the fine gentlemen all rode in an old butcher's
+      cart to have their heads chopped off," left nothing to the imagination.
+      "My Baron was once near going himself to the 'Gartine,' or whatever they
+      call it," he told me one day when he was especially talkative; "but he got
+      well out of it. He was one that could turn the heads of the women, and it
+      was a woman got him safely out of the city."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mahlmann sat on the bench before the door and stretched his skinny hands
+      to the sun. About his shoulders he had a ragged coat which had once been
+      red, but was now a coat of many colors. It was so hot that I took shelter
+      in the shadow of the doorway, but the chilly old man was shivering. I had
+      brought him a great piece of cake and now offered it to him. He slowly
+      reached for it, and slowly ate it up.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's like what I used to get in Paris. Dear me! My Baron was a handsome
+      man, and for my age, I must have been about fifteen, I was a sharp lad&mdash;only
+      I couldn't rightly understand their French lingo, which put me out. But I
+      understood the affair of the little Mamsell well enough. She lived
+      opposite; her father was a grocer and she helped in the shop. At first we
+      didn't buy anything there, till a long-legged Englishman told my Baron
+      that this grocer kept a fine Hungarian wine. It was out of the King's
+      wine-cellar and he wasn't drinking any more wine because he had gone to
+      the 'Gartine/ And a few sensible people had divided the wine, which was
+      only right, and it was to be had very cheap. Then I went over and bought
+      some. Mamsell Manon was in the shop, and laughed till she cried over my
+      way of speaking. Then I got angry, and when I brought my Baron the wine I
+      said that I wasn't going again to that stupid Mamsell who couldn't even
+      understand German. The next day my master was for sending me again, but I
+      rebelled. 'Herr Baron,' I said, 'you can give me the whip because I'm only
+      a servant, but I won't go again to that silly girl opposite, and if you
+      make me I'll accuse you to the authorities of being an aristocrat. We're
+      all free and equal now, I can understand that much French, and I'll be
+      sorry if you have to go to the "Gartine," but I won't be ill-treated!'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My Baron looked at me queerly, but he listened to reason, and I didn't
+      have to go to the Mamsell again because he went himself. And then he made
+      friends with Mamsell Manon, and she came over and brought the King's wine
+      herself. When I knew her better she wasn't bad; she laughed a good deal,
+      and sang all the time like a little bird, but one can't go against nature.
+      And she was a good girl too, for once when my Baron put his arm around her
+      and tried to kiss her, she boxed his ears. I never knew my master could
+      look such a fool. The fine gentlemen don't always get their way."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mahlmann nodded once or twice and ate some crumbs of cake before he went
+      on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, they don't always get their way," he continued. "My Baron wanted to
+      stay longer in Paris, though many of his noble friends lay already in the
+      lime-pit with their heads off. He didn't want to go away, and sat half the
+      day in the shop with Mamsell Manon, and said a Dane wasn't afraid of the
+      French&mdash;they'd not do anything to him! Things never turn out as one
+      expects, and one evening my Baron was fetched away by a couple of long
+      soldiers. That was unpleasant I can tell you. My master had been at me
+      sometimes with the whip, and I didn't care specially about him; but to be
+      all alone in such a crazy town where there's not a Christian that
+      understands a word you say, it's enough to give you the horrors. Then the
+      next morning Mamsell Manon came and talked to me, and cried dreadfully,
+      and stroked my cheeks, and I understood her all right in spite of that
+      jabbering French. Mamsell thought a cousin of hers had got the Baron put
+      in prison, because he was jealous. I don't know what more she said, but I
+      soon found out what she wanted, and my hair stood on end. She wanted to
+      borrow my confirmation suit that I had only had on three times; once at
+      the confirmation, then for communion, and then when I came to the Baron to
+      apply for the place. It was lying in my trunk because I had always worn
+      livery, and when the French wouldn't have liveries any more, the Baron
+      gave me an old gray suit of his. When Mamsell insisted upon having my best
+      clothes I naturally said, 'nong, nong,' and shook my head till I was
+      dizzy, but Manon patted me and coaxed me, and sure as the world she got
+      her way, as women always do. All at once I had got my trunk unlocked and
+      she ran away with my confirmation coat and all the rest of the tilings.
+      And I was still looking after her with my mouth open, when she came back
+      dressed like a man!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mahlmann was silent for a moment and wrapped himself with a shiver in his
+      red coat.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Dear me! how cold it always is now; it used to be warm in July. Things
+      never turn out as one expects. The little Mamseli had promised me
+      faithfully I should have my good clothes back&mdash;yes, indeed&mdash;bless
+      you! But I must say she looked downright pretty in my best black suit, and
+      I saw why she hadn't worn clothes of the Baron's, or of her own father's.
+      He was short and fat, and the Baron was tall and broad-shouldered, and the
+      little one would not have looked well in their things. Now she looked like
+      a real boy, and like two boys we ran to one of the many prisons where the
+      aristocrats were, I With a basket and she with a basket, with bread and
+      writing-paper, and we took them to the wife of one of the gaolers who
+      earned a lot of money by selling them. The aristocrats were always writing
+      letters, which shows what do-nothings they were; for an honest man has a
+      tongue to talk with, and doesn't need to make marks on paper to kill time.
+      We went to the great prison two or three times; I stayed outside because I
+      was afraid, but Mamseli Manon went in and talked with the gaolers. What
+      more she did I don't know; I waited outside and thought of my confirmation
+      suit, for the little Mamseli wasn't very careful of it. She had had it
+      three days and took it home with her, and I never knew where it was when
+      she was in the shop with her ordinary clothes on. It was always dark when
+      we went out, then she'd come for me and we'd start* I must say she always
+      brought me some* thing, a drop of wine or a bit of cake. The evening of
+      the fourth day when I was waiting for her at the gate of the prison,
+      someone seized hold of my shoulder and said in German, 'Forward!' It was
+      my Baron who stood before me all at once and was in a devil of a hurry to
+      get away. 'Franz!' he said to me, 'be quick or I am lost!' 'Where is the
+      little Mamsell?' I asked, 'and where is my confirmation suit?' Then he
+      grabbed me by the arm and dragged me through the streets till I was out of
+      breath. 'She will come,' he said half to himself, 'to-morrow the mistake
+      will be cleared up, when I am out of the city. Her father will save her.'
+      But though he was still pulling me along, I stopped short. 'Herr Baron,' I
+      said, 'the little Mamsell has got on my best black suit, and the trousers
+      were made out of the Herr Pastor's own, and I tell you if I don't get my
+      suit that I was confirmed in, I'll go to the gentlemen of the
+      head-chopping company and tell them you've broken out of prison, which
+      they certainly won't like. For by rights all the aristocrats ought to go
+      to the "Gartine," or whatever you call it, so that we can have "égalité"
+      and liberty, and we poor fellows can amuse ourselves instead of having all
+      the good times used up by the great gentlemen!' Then he looked at me as if
+      he would like to kill me, but he couldn't do that, so he tried to talk me
+      round with promises. Dear me! what didn't the man promise me! A bag full
+      of money, and a pig every year, and every year a black suit, if I would
+      only go quietly home with him. And he put on my finger on the spot a ring
+      with a red stone that I had always fancied, so I went along quietly with
+      him to his apartment that I had the key of. The Baron slept in my attic
+      room, and I had to lie on the sofa in his best room to look as if I was
+      trying to play the gentleman. The next day the Baron went out twice in a
+      blue blouse with a cap on his head, and the second morning we both went on
+      foot out of the city, in clothes that I wouldn't have liked to touch with
+      a pair of tongs!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mahlmann stopped and rubbed his left knee. "What rheumatism I do have! And
+      in the month of July! Well, well, it's always the way when you begin to
+      get old; I suppose I must be about ninety. My grandfather's aunt, though,
+      was more than a hundred and only died then from eating too much at a
+      pig-killing!" He sighed and nodded. "We've all got to be put under ground
+      some day, but it's queer just the same what a difference there is about
+      dying. I'm old now, and that time when I went through Paris in the early
+      morning with a rag-bag on my back, and my Baron with just such another
+      one, was the first time in my life that I ever thought of death, and it
+      isn't a thought for a boy. It was because the carts were passing us with
+      the aristocrats who were going to have their heads chopped off. I'd seen
+      those old carts often enough and naturally thought nothing of it, because
+      it was a good thing that the fine Monsieurs and Madames were got rid off;
+      but this time it startled me, for the little Mamsell was in one of the
+      ramshackle old wagons too. And the strangest of all was she still had on
+      my confirmation suit that made her look like a pretty boy. She had folded
+      her hands and looked as if she was going to communion. There weren't many
+      people in the street,' it was so early, and I was just about to open my
+      mouth and cry out that Mamsell had on my black suit and I wanted her to
+      give it back, when my Baron clapped his hand over my mouth and I nearly
+      choked. 'Donner-wetter' how he gripped me! But only a minute, for suddenly
+      his strength gave out and he stood stock-still and began to tremble. He
+      had looked at Manon and she at him. Such a smile came over her face and
+      she bowed her head, and then the cart drove quickly on. My master stood in
+      one spot for as much as a quarter of an hour, and big tears rolled down
+      his cheeks. 'A horrible mistake!' he murmured, 'she told me she was in no
+      danger, that her father would get her free the next day&mdash;he could not
+      have found her! Heavenly Father, couldst thou not have pity on her youth
+      and beauty?' He said much more and I got impatient when he wouldn't go on,
+      and said, 'Herr Baron, the little Mamsell is gone for good and all, I
+      suppose, and my black suit too, so there's no chance of my ever seeing
+      that again, but if we stay here much longer they'll take us to the
+      "Gartine" too, and the little Mamsell wouldn't wish that, or why should
+      she have made all this fuss about my suit. And by this time she's
+      certainly in heaven, and that's a very good place they say!'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I talked like this to my Baron, till he began to walk, and went faster
+      and faster, out through the city gates, and never looked back for me till
+      we came to some houses where English lived in a village a few miles from
+      Paris, where the French didn't make such a time as in the city itself. The
+      English were going back to their own country, as all this was rather
+      uncomfortable, and we traveled with them by slow stages to the coast, and
+      then in a small boat to England, where they eat their beef too red for my
+      taste; In other ways they live well enough, and I would have had nothing
+      to complain of if my Baron had been a little more cheerful. He had
+      forgotten how to laugh, had grown pale and silent, and nights instead of
+      sleeping he lay groaning and muttering in French and Danish to himself. In
+      his dreams he was always calling for Manon, a senseless thing to do since
+      she couldn't come!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The old man looked thoughtfully toward the setting sun. "When I thought
+      over the whole affair I felt dreadfully sorry about little Mam-sell. She
+      was such a pretty little thing with short brown hair, and such laughing
+      eyes as if there were no trouble or sorrow in the world. I was only a
+      green lad then, and knew nothing about women, but the memory of her smile
+      as she sat in the cart stayed by me. Afterward I once saw a baby lying in
+      its coffin, that looked as content as Mamsell Manon did that day, going to
+      lay her white neck on the block, I grew more reasonable as time went on
+      and forgot my vexation over my black suit. The Baron treated me very
+      decently, I can't complain. Later on, though, he decided we had better
+      part, for I had grown too free in my manners in Paris, He gave me a good
+      present and if I hadn't had all sorts of bad luck I might be a rich man
+      now. But it's always so, there's no 'égalité' in this country, and if we
+      don't have a good revolution it will never be any different. Though it
+      doesn't always turn out well for everyone even then, The French grocer who
+      did such a good business with the King's wine was one of those who could
+      never get enough aristocrats killed; and finally his own flesh and blood
+      went to her death for the sake of one of them. If misfortune is bound to
+      come there's no getting out of it, and it came to me the time they said I
+      belonged to that band of thieves there was such a talk about. I defended
+      myself well, but all the same I was put in gaol in Gluckstadt, and there's
+      no knowing how long I might have stayed there if it hadn't been for a
+      lucky chance that brought the Danish king to see the prison, along with a
+      lot of fine gentlemen. All of us convicts had to stand in rank and file
+      while old Friedrich inspected us. And who should be behind the King but my
+      Baron, with white hair and bent back, and a great star on his breast. They
+      were going slowly past us, when I coughed, and he started and came close
+      to me. 'Do I not know you?' he said, and I laughed a little. 'Herr Baron,
+      do you remember the story of my best black suit?' He looked rather queer
+      and drew his hand across his forehead as if he were wiping something off,
+      and passed on. The next day one of the wardens took me to the Baron's
+      house, and he asked why I was in prison. When he had heard all about it,
+      he sighed and spoke softly to himself and then sighed again. At last he
+      got up and put his hand on my arm. 'You knew her, Franz, and because you
+      knew her&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;' he could get no further and I was taken
+      away, and soon after pardoned out. So I saw that the Baron remembered my
+      confirmation suit; and ten years after I saw him again in Kiel, in a
+      bath-chair, for he couldn't walk. I went to see him and he sent me ten
+      thalers, and his servant told me he had great trouble with his sons. He is
+      long dead, which is a pity, for he often sent me something. Everything
+      comes to an end, everything. In the morning when I lie in bed and can't
+      sleep, I often think of little Manon who died in my black suit in the
+      midst of the aristocrats, where she didn't belong, and my black suit
+      didn't belong there either. Things never turn out as one expects, never!"
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+Title: The Story Of The Little Mamsell
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+Author: Charlotte Niese
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+Translator: Miss E. C. Emerson
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+THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MAMSELL
+
+By Charlotte Niese
+
+Translated from the German by Miss E. C. Emerson
+
+
+"Have you got something good? Then put the basket down and go along
+home!" This was one usual greeting from old Mahlmann when we brought
+him provisions. He was very old, and rarely out of his bed, only now and
+then on warm summer days he sat on the bench before his tiny cottage and
+basked in the sun. If a painter had ever strayed to our uninteresting
+little town he would certainly have put old Mahlmann's characteristic
+head on his canvas. He had a clever old face with a firm mouth and
+glittering eyes whose expression was so sombre and at the same time
+observant that we children imagined old Mahlmann was different from
+other people. And indeed so he was. To begin with he never thanked
+anyone for bringing him food; in fact he criticized freely the benefits
+he received. If one brought what was not to his liking, he would say:
+"Go home and tell your mother old Mahlmann is not a waste-tub where you
+throw what's not fit to eat. You needn't come again either!"
+
+In this manner he got himself into disfavor with many a good housewife,
+who would protest by all that was holy that never would she send the
+hoary old sinner anything again. But Mahlmann never cared. His needs
+were few and there was always some one to satisfy them.
+
+For me the old man with the sombre eyes had a peculiar fascination; I
+think from the fact that he once told me a wonderful ghost-story. There
+were at least half a dozen witches and a whole dozen ghosts in this
+tale, and for many nights after I went to bed in tears, and only on
+condition some one sat with me till I fell asleep. Still the spell of
+these horrors was so strong upon me that I visited Mahlmann all the
+more" and often bought him something out of my own slender pocket-money
+to induce him to tell stories. I was not always successful, for the old
+man had morose moods, when he spoke little. At other times he would tell
+us his own experiences, and his life had not lacked variety. He had been
+in Paris at the time of the Revolution, as servant to a Danish officer
+of high rank, and his description "how the fine gentlemen all rode in an
+old butcher's cart to have their heads chopped off," left nothing to the
+imagination. "My Baron was once near going himself to the 'Gartine,'
+or whatever they call it," he told me one day when he was especially
+talkative; "but he got well out of it. He was one that could turn the
+heads of the women, and it was a woman got him safely out of the city."
+
+Mahlmann sat on the bench before the door and stretched his skinny hands
+to the sun. About his shoulders he had a ragged coat which had once
+been red, but was now a coat of many colors. It was so hot that I
+took shelter in the shadow of the doorway, but the chilly old man was
+shivering. I had brought him a great piece of cake and now offered it to
+him. He slowly reached for it, and slowly ate it up.
+
+"That's like what I used to get in Paris. Dear me! My Baron was a
+handsome man, and for my age, I must have been about fifteen, I was a
+sharp lad--only I couldn't rightly understand their French lingo, which
+put me out. But I understood the affair of the little Mamsell well
+enough. She lived opposite; her father was a grocer and she helped in
+the shop. At first we didn't buy anything there, till a long-legged
+Englishman told my Baron that this grocer kept a fine Hungarian wine. It
+was out of the King's wine-cellar and he wasn't drinking any more wine
+because he had gone to the 'Gartine/ And a few sensible people had
+divided the wine, which was only right, and it was to be had very cheap.
+Then I went over and bought some. Mamsell Manon was in the shop, and
+laughed till she cried over my way of speaking. Then I got angry, and
+when I brought my Baron the wine I said that I wasn't going again to
+that stupid Mamsell who couldn't even understand German. The next day my
+master was for sending me again, but I rebelled. 'Herr Baron,' I said,
+'you can give me the whip because I'm only a servant, but I won't go
+again to that silly girl opposite, and if you make me I'll accuse you to
+the authorities of being an aristocrat. We're all free and equal now, I
+can understand that much French, and I'll be sorry if you have to go to
+the "Gartine," but I won't be ill-treated!'
+
+"My Baron looked at me queerly, but he listened to reason, and I didn't
+have to go to the Mamsell again because he went himself. And then he
+made friends with Mamsell Manon, and she came over and brought the
+King's wine herself. When I knew her better she wasn't bad; she laughed
+a good deal, and sang all the time like a little bird, but one can't go
+against nature. And she was a good girl too, for once when my Baron put
+his arm around her and tried to kiss her, she boxed his ears. I never
+knew my master could look such a fool. The fine gentlemen don't always
+get their way."
+
+Mahlmann nodded once or twice and ate some crumbs of cake before he went
+on.
+
+"No, they don't always get their way," he continued. "My Baron wanted
+to stay longer in Paris, though many of his noble friends lay already
+in the lime-pit with their heads off. He didn't want to go away, and
+sat half the day in the shop with Mamsell Manon, and said a Dane wasn't
+afraid of the French--they'd not do anything to him! Things never turn
+out as one expects, and one evening my Baron was fetched away by a
+couple of long soldiers. That was unpleasant I can tell you. My master
+had been at me sometimes with the whip, and I didn't care specially
+about him; but to be all alone in such a crazy town where there's not a
+Christian that understands a word you say, it's enough to give you the
+horrors. Then the next morning Mamsell Manon came and talked to me, and
+cried dreadfully, and stroked my cheeks, and I understood her all right
+in spite of that jabbering French. Mamsell thought a cousin of hers had
+got the Baron put in prison, because he was jealous. I don't know what
+more she said, but I soon found out what she wanted, and my hair stood
+on end. She wanted to borrow my confirmation suit that I had only had on
+three times; once at the confirmation, then for communion, and then when
+I came to the Baron to apply for the place. It was lying in my trunk
+because I had always worn livery, and when the French wouldn't have
+liveries any more, the Baron gave me an old gray suit of his. When
+Mamsell insisted upon having my best clothes I naturally said, 'nong,
+nong,' and shook my head till I was dizzy, but Manon patted me and
+coaxed me, and sure as the world she got her way, as women always
+do. All at once I had got my trunk unlocked and she ran away with my
+confirmation coat and all the rest of the tilings. And I was still
+looking after her with my mouth open, when she came back dressed like a
+man!"
+
+Mahlmann was silent for a moment and wrapped himself with a shiver in
+his red coat.
+
+"Dear me! how cold it always is now; it used to be warm in July. Things
+never turn out as one expects. The little Mamseli had promised me
+faithfully I should have my good clothes back--yes, indeed--bless you!
+But I must say she looked downright pretty in my best black suit, and I
+saw why she hadn't worn clothes of the Baron's, or of her own father's.
+He was short and fat, and the Baron was tall and broad-shouldered,
+and the little one would not have looked well in their things. Now she
+looked like a real boy, and like two boys we ran to one of the many
+prisons where the aristocrats were, I With a basket and she with a
+basket, with bread and writing-paper, and we took them to the wife
+of one of the gaolers who earned a lot of money by selling them. The
+aristocrats were always writing letters, which shows what do-nothings
+they were; for an honest man has a tongue to talk with, and doesn't need
+to make marks on paper to kill time. We went to the great prison two or
+three times; I stayed outside because I was afraid, but Mamseli Manon
+went in and talked with the gaolers. What more she did I don't know;
+I waited outside and thought of my confirmation suit, for the little
+Mamseli wasn't very careful of it. She had had it three days and took
+it home with her, and I never knew where it was when she was in the shop
+with her ordinary clothes on. It was always dark when we went out, then
+she'd come for me and we'd start* I must say she always brought me some*
+thing, a drop of wine or a bit of cake. The evening of the fourth day
+when I was waiting for her at the gate of the prison, someone seized
+hold of my shoulder and said in German, 'Forward!' It was my Baron who
+stood before me all at once and was in a devil of a hurry to get away.
+'Franz!' he said to me, 'be quick or I am lost!' 'Where is the little
+Mamsell?' I asked, 'and where is my confirmation suit?' Then he grabbed
+me by the arm and dragged me through the streets till I was out of
+breath. 'She will come,' he said half to himself, 'to-morrow the mistake
+will be cleared up, when I am out of the city. Her father will save
+her.' But though he was still pulling me along, I stopped short. 'Herr
+Baron,' I said, 'the little Mamsell has got on my best black suit, and
+the trousers were made out of the Herr Pastor's own, and I tell you if
+I don't get my suit that I was confirmed in, I'll go to the gentlemen
+of the head-chopping company and tell them you've broken out of prison,
+which they certainly won't like. For by rights all the aristocrats ought
+to go to the "Gartine," or whatever you call it, so that we can have
+"egalite" and liberty, and we poor fellows can amuse ourselves instead
+of having all the good times used up by the great gentlemen!' Then he
+looked at me as if he would like to kill me, but he couldn't do that,
+so he tried to talk me round with promises. Dear me! what didn't the man
+promise me! A bag full of money, and a pig every year, and every year a
+black suit, if I would only go quietly home with him. And he put on my
+finger on the spot a ring with a red stone that I had always fancied,
+so I went along quietly with him to his apartment that I had the key of.
+The Baron slept in my attic room, and I had to lie on the sofa in his
+best room to look as if I was trying to play the gentleman. The next day
+the Baron went out twice in a blue blouse with a cap on his head, and
+the second morning we both went on foot out of the city, in clothes that
+I wouldn't have liked to touch with a pair of tongs!"
+
+Mahlmann stopped and rubbed his left knee. "What rheumatism I do have!
+And in the month of July! Well, well, it's always the way when you begin
+to get old; I suppose I must be about ninety. My grandfather's aunt,
+though, was more than a hundred and only died then from eating too much
+at a pig-killing!" He sighed and nodded. "We've all got to be put under
+ground some day, but it's queer just the same what a difference there is
+about dying. I'm old now, and that time when I went through Paris in
+the early morning with a rag-bag on my back, and my Baron with just such
+another one, was the first time in my life that I ever thought of death,
+and it isn't a thought for a boy. It was because the carts were passing
+us with the aristocrats who were going to have their heads chopped off.
+I'd seen those old carts often enough and naturally thought nothing of
+it, because it was a good thing that the fine Monsieurs and Madames were
+got rid off; but this time it startled me, for the little Mamsell was in
+one of the ramshackle old wagons too. And the strangest of all was she
+still had on my confirmation suit that made her look like a pretty boy.
+She had folded her hands and looked as if she was going to communion.
+There weren't many people in the street,' it was so early, and I was
+just about to open my mouth and cry out that Mamsell had on my black
+suit and I wanted her to give it back, when my Baron clapped his hand
+over my mouth and I nearly choked. 'Donner-wetter' how he gripped me!
+But only a minute, for suddenly his strength gave out and he stood
+stock-still and began to tremble. He had looked at Manon and she at him.
+Such a smile came over her face and she bowed her head, and then the
+cart drove quickly on. My master stood in one spot for as much as a
+quarter of an hour, and big tears rolled down his cheeks. 'A horrible
+mistake!' he murmured, 'she told me she was in no danger, that her
+father would get her free the next day--he could not have found her!
+Heavenly Father, couldst thou not have pity on her youth and beauty?'
+He said much more and I got impatient when he wouldn't go on, and said,
+'Herr Baron, the little Mamsell is gone for good and all, I suppose, and
+my black suit too, so there's no chance of my ever seeing that again,
+but if we stay here much longer they'll take us to the "Gartine" too,
+and the little Mamsell wouldn't wish that, or why should she have made
+all this fuss about my suit. And by this time she's certainly in heaven,
+and that's a very good place they say!'
+
+"I talked like this to my Baron, till he began to walk, and went faster
+and faster, out through the city gates, and never looked back for me
+till we came to some houses where English lived in a village a few miles
+from Paris, where the French didn't make such a time as in the city
+itself. The English were going back to their own country, as all this
+was rather uncomfortable, and we traveled with them by slow stages to
+the coast, and then in a small boat to England, where they eat their
+beef too red for my taste; In other ways they live well enough, and I
+would have had nothing to complain of if my Baron had been a little more
+cheerful. He had forgotten how to laugh, had grown pale and silent, and
+nights instead of sleeping he lay groaning and muttering in French and
+Danish to himself. In his dreams he was always calling for Manon, a
+senseless thing to do since she couldn't come!"
+
+The old man looked thoughtfully toward the setting sun. "When I thought
+over the whole affair I felt dreadfully sorry about little Mam-sell. She
+was such a pretty little thing with short brown hair, and such laughing
+eyes as if there were no trouble or sorrow in the world. I was only
+a green lad then, and knew nothing about women, but the memory of her
+smile as she sat in the cart stayed by me. Afterward I once saw a baby
+lying in its coffin, that looked as content as Mamsell Manon did that
+day, going to lay her white neck on the block, I grew more reasonable
+as time went on and forgot my vexation over my black suit. The Baron
+treated me very decently, I can't complain. Later on, though, he
+decided we had better part, for I had grown too free in my manners in
+Paris, He gave me a good present and if I hadn't had all sorts of bad
+luck I might be a rich man now. But it's always so, there's no 'egalite'
+in this country, and if we don't have a good revolution it will never be
+any different. Though it doesn't always turn out well for everyone even
+then, The French grocer who did such a good business with the King's
+wine was one of those who could never get enough aristocrats killed; and
+finally his own flesh and blood went to her death for the sake of one of
+them. If misfortune is bound to come there's no getting out of it, and
+it came to me the time they said I belonged to that band of thieves
+there was such a talk about. I defended myself well, but all the same I
+was put in gaol in Gluckstadt, and there's no knowing how long I might
+have stayed there if it hadn't been for a lucky chance that brought the
+Danish king to see the prison, along with a lot of fine gentlemen.
+All of us convicts had to stand in rank and file while old Friedrich
+inspected us. And who should be behind the King but my Baron, with white
+hair and bent back, and a great star on his breast. They were going
+slowly past us, when I coughed, and he started and came close to me. 'Do
+I not know you?' he said, and I laughed a little. 'Herr Baron, do you
+remember the story of my best black suit?' He looked rather queer and
+drew his hand across his forehead as if he were wiping something off,
+and passed on. The next day one of the wardens took me to the Baron's
+house, and he asked why I was in prison. When he had heard all about it,
+he sighed and spoke softly to himself and then sighed again. At last he
+got up and put his hand on my arm. 'You knew her, Franz, and because you
+knew her------' he could get no further and I was taken away, and soon
+after pardoned out. So I saw that the Baron remembered my confirmation
+suit; and ten years after I saw him again in Kiel, in a bath-chair, for
+he couldn't walk. I went to see him and he sent me ten thalers, and his
+servant told me he had great trouble with his sons. He is long dead,
+which is a pity, for he often sent me something. Everything comes to
+an end, everything. In the morning when I lie in bed and can't sleep,
+I often think of little Manon who died in my black suit in the midst
+of the aristocrats, where she didn't belong, and my black suit didn't
+belong there either. Things never turn out as one expects, never!"
+
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