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The Home

CHAPTER VI
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She thought that with a bouquet of raspberries in her hand, she could throw herself at the feet of her mother, and pray for forgiveness.

So thought she, and tore up the raspberry bushes, and new courage and new hope revived the while in her breast.

If, thought she, she clambered only a little way higher, could she not discover where her home was?
should she not see her mother, father, sisters, nay, the whole world?
Certainly.

What a bright idea it was! With one hand full of raspberries, the other assisted her to climb; but, ah! first one foot slipped on the dry smooth grass, and then the other.
The left hand could no longer sustain the whole weight of her body; the right hand would not let go the raspberries.

A moment of anguish, a violent effort, and then Petrea rolled down the cliff into a thicket of bushes and nettles, where for the present we will leave her, in order to look after the others.
The anxiety of the mother is not to be described, as after a whole hour spent with Jacobi and Henrik (the little Queen-bee watched over the other children near Pan's grotto), in seeking and calling for Petrea, all was in vain.


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