When they had ended, he patted them both on the shoulder with fatherly tenderness and then passed into the next room.

Here Mux approached him and said his verse faultlessly in a loud, clear voice.

On the table the Director found two beautiful drawings of his brown horses, and his joy over them was so great that he did not put them down for quite a while.

But finally he saw all at once a large picture resting in the middle of the table.

His house, with the surrounding garden, the luminous meadow with the view toward the valley and the distant mountains beyond, was painted in such fresh and absolutely natural colors that Mr.Hellmut was quite overcome.