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diff --git a/23221-8.txt b/23221-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c8dd74 --- /dev/null +++ b/23221-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,663 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Story Of The Little Mamsell, by Charlotte Niese + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Story Of The Little Mamsell + +Author: Charlotte Niese + +Translator: Miss E. C. Emerson + +Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23221] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MAMSELL *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +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 +"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!" + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Story Of The Little Mamsell, by Charlotte Niese + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MAMSELL *** + +***** This file should be named 23221-8.txt or 23221-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/2/2/23221/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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