Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:26:08 +0200
individual, be he high or low, to unfold a plain straightforward tale, or
him simply say ALSO! and this will give him a moments chance to think ofthe needful word. In Germany, when you load your conversational gun it islways best to throw in a SCHLAG or two and a ZUG or two, because it doesntake any difference how much the rest of the charge may scatter, you are
means mother-in-law. Just the same with ZUG. Strictly speaking, ZUG means Pull, Tug,
Still, those years with his sister, filled with labor beyond his age as they were, had been the happiest of his life. In an almost complete isolation the two had toiled together five years, the most impressionable of his life; and all his affection centred on the silent, loving, always comprehending sister. His own father and mother grew to seem far away and alien, and his sister came to be like a part of himself. To her alone of all living souls had he spoken freely of his passion for adventuring far from home, of the lust for wandering which devoured his boy-soul. He was sixteen when her husband finally came back from the war, and he had no secrets from the young matron of twenty-six, who listened with such wide tender eyes of sympathy to his half-frantic outpourings of longing to escape from the dark, narrow valley where his fathers had lived their dark, narrow lives.
