"How astonished you look!" Her wish reminded him of the magic word she had mentioned the day before, and they talked about it all the way home, Ulrich saying that he had waked three times in the night on account of it.

Ruth eagerly interrupted him, exclaiming: "I thought of it again too, and if any one would tell the what it was, I should know what to wish now.

I would not have a single human being in the world except you and me, and my father and mother." "And my little mother!" added Ulrich, earnestly.
"And your father, too!" "Why, of course, he, too!" said the boy, as if to make hasty atonement for his neglect..