"I shall love her dearly for your sake, my darling, as well as for her own--and my own too; and we will all look forward to meeting again happily after our present parting, with hope and trust in the good God who will protect and watch over you in return for our prayers!" "Amen to that," said Lorischen heartily.

"And I tell you what it is, Master Fritz--we'll be all ready when you give the word to follow you across the sea to that wonderful America! I declare I'm quite longing to see it, for I don't think much of this Lubeck now, with such curious, meddling, impertinent people in it like that odious little fat man, Burgher Jans." These words of the old nurse put them all in a merry mood, and the family council thus terminated more cheerily than it had begun..