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JEROME COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY DODD, MEAD & +COMPANY Published, September, 1908 + + + + +THE LOVE OF ULRICH NEBENDAHL + +Perhaps of all, it troubled most the Herr Pfarrer. Was he not the father +of the village? And as such did it not fall to him to see his children +marry well and suitably? marry in any case. It was the duty of every +worthy citizen to keep alive throughout the ages the sacred hearth fire, +to rear up sturdy lads and honest lassies that would serve God, and +the Fatherland. A true son of Saxon soil was the Herr Pastor +Winckelmann--kindly, simple, sentimental. + +"Why, at your age, Ulrich--at your age," repeated the Herr Pastor, +setting down his beer and wiping with the back of his hand his large +uneven lips, "I was the father of a family--two boys and a girl. You +never saw her, Ulrich; so sweet, so good. We called her Maria." The Herr +Pfarrer sighed and hid his broad red face behind the raised cover of his +pewter pot. + +"They must be good fun in a house, the little ones," commented Ulrich, +gazing upward with his dreamy eyes at the wreath of smoke ascending from +his long-stemmed pipe. "The little ones, always my heart goes out to +them." + +"Take to yourself a wife," urged the Herr Pfarrer. "It is your duty. The +good God has given to you ample means. It is not right that you should +lead this lonely life. Bachelors make old maids; things of no use." + +"That is so," Ulrich agreed. "I have often said the same unto myself. It +would be pleasant to feel one was not working merely for oneself." + +"Elsa, now," went on the Herr Pfarrer, "she is a good child, pious and +economical. The price of such is above rubies." + +Ulrich's face lightened with a pleasant smile. "Aye, Elsa is a good +girl," he answered. "Her little hands--have you ever noticed them, Herr +Pastor--so soft and dimpled." + +The Pfarrer pushed aside his empty pot and leaned his elbows on the +table. + +"I think--I do not think--she would say no. Her mother, I have reason +to believe--Let me sound them--discreetly." The old pastor's red +face glowed redder, yet with pleasurable anticipation; he was a born +matchmaker. + +But Ulrich the wheelwright shuffled in his chair uneasily. + +"A little longer," he pleaded. "Let me think it over. A man should not +marry without first being sure he loves. Things might happen. It would +not be fair to the maiden." + +The Herr Pfarrer stretched his hand across the table and laid it upon +Ulrich's arm. + +"It is Hedwig; twice you walked home with her last week." + +"It is a lonesome way for a timid maiden; and there is the stream to +cross," explained the wheelwright. + +For a moment the Herr Pastor's face had clouded, but now it cleared +again. + +"Well, well, why not? Elsa would have been better in some respects, but +Hedwig--ah, yes, she, too, is a good girl a little wild perhaps--it will +wear off. Have you spoken with her?" + +"Not yet." + +"But you will?" + +Again there fell that troubled look into those dreamy eyes. This time +it was Ulrich who, laying aside his pipe, rested his great arms upon the +wooden table. + +"Now, how does a man know when he is in love?" asked Ulrich of the +Pastor who, having been married twice, should surely be experienced upon +the point. "How should he be sure that it is this woman and no other to +whom his heart has gone out?" + +A commonplace-looking man was the Herr Pastor, short and fat and bald. +But there had been other days, and these had left to him a voice that +still was young; and the evening twilight screening the seared face, +Ulrich heard but the pastor's voice, which was the voice of a boy. + +"She will be dearer to you than yourself. Thinking of her, all else will +be as nothing. For her you would lay down your life." + +They sat in silence for a while; for the fat little Herr Pfarrer was +dreaming of the past; and long, lanky Ulrich Nebendahl, the wheelwright, +of the future. + +That evening, as chance would have it, Ulrich returning to his +homestead--a rambling mill beside the river, where he dwelt alone with +ancient Anna--met Elsa of the dimpled hands upon the bridge that spans +the murmuring Muhlde, and talked a while with her, and said good-night. + +How sweet it had been to watch her ox-like eyes shyly seeking his, to +press her dimpled hand and feel his own great strength. Surely he +loved her better than he did himself. There could be no doubt of it. He +pictured her in trouble, in danger from the savage soldiery that came +and went like evil shadows through these pleasant Saxon valleys, leaving +death and misery behind them: burnt homesteads; wild-eyed women, hiding +their faces from the light. Would he not for her sake give his life? + +So it was made clear to him that little Elsa was his love. + +Until next morning, when, raising his eyes from the whirling saw, there +stood before him Margot, laughing. Margot, mischief-loving, wayward, +that would ever be to him the baby he had played with, nursed, and +comforted. Margot weary! Had he not a thousand times carried her +sleeping in his arms. Margot in danger! At the mere thought his face +flushed an angry scarlet. + +All that afternoon Ulrich communed with himself, tried to understand +himself, and could not. For Elsa and Margot and Hedwig were not the only +ones by a long way. What girl in the village did he not love, if it came +to that: Liesel, who worked so hard and lived so poorly, bullied by her +cross-grained granddam. Susanna, plain and a little crotchety, who had +never had a sweetheart to coax the thin lips into smiles. The little +ones--for so they seemed to long, lanky Ulrich, with their pleasant +ways--Ulrich smiled as he thought of them--how should a man love one +more than another? + +The Herr Pfarrer shook his head and sighed. + +"That is not love. Gott in Himmel! think what it would lead to? The good +God never would have arranged things so. You love one; she is the only +woman in the world for you." + +"But you, yourself, Herr Pastor, you have twice been married," suggested +the puzzled wheelwright. + +"But one at a time, Ulrich--one at a time. That is a very different +thing." + +Why should it not come to him, alone among men? Surely it was a +beautiful thing, this love; a thing worthy of a man, without which a man +was but a useless devourer of food, cumbering the earth. + +So Ulrich pondered, pausing from his work one drowsy summer's afternoon, +listening to the low song of the waters. How well he knew the winding +Muhlde's merry voice. He had worked beside it, played beside it all his +life. Often he would sit and talk to it as to an old friend, reading +answers in its changing tones. + +Trudchen, seeing him idle, pushed her cold nose into his hand. Trudchen +just now was feeling clever and important. Was she not the mother of the +five most wonderful puppies in all Saxony? They swarmed about his legs, +pressing him with their little foolish heads. Ulrich stooped and picked +up one in each big hand. But this causing jealousy and heartburning, +laughing, he lay down upon a log. Then the whole five stormed over him, +biting his hair, trampling with their clumsy paws upon his face; till +suddenly they raced off in a body to attack a floating feather. Ulrich +sat up and watched them, the little rogues, the little foolish, helpless +things, that called for so much care. A mother thrush twittered above +his head. Ulrich rose and creeping on tiptoe, peeped into the nest. But +the mother bird, casting one glance towards him, went on with her work. +Whoever was afraid of Ulrich the wheelwright! The tiny murmuring insects +buzzed to and fro about his feet. An old man, passing to his evening +rest, gave him "good-day." A zephyr whispered something to the leaves, +at which they laughed, then passed upon his way. Here and there a shadow +crept out from its hiding-place. + +"If only I could marry the whole village!" laughed Ulrich to himself. + +But that, of course, is nonsense! + +The spring that followed let loose the dogs of war again upon the +blood-stained land, for now all Germany, taught late by common suffering +forgetfulness of local rivalries, was rushing together in a mighty wave +that would sweep French feet for ever from their hold on German soil. +Ulrich, for whom the love of woman seemed not, would at least be the +lover of his country. He, too, would march among those brave stern +hearts that, stealing like a thousand rivulets from every German valley, +were flowing north and west to join the Prussian eagles. + +But even love of country seemed denied to Ulrich of the dreamy eyes. +His wheelwright's business had called him to a town far off. He had been +walking all the day. Towards evening, passing the outskirts of a wood, +a feeble cry for help, sounding from the shadows, fell upon his ear. +Ulrich paused, and again from the sombre wood crept that weary cry of +pain. Ulrich ran and came at last to where, among the wild flowers and +the grass, lay prone five human figures. Two of them were of the German +Landwehr, the other three Frenchmen in the hated uniform of Napoleon's +famous scouts. It had been some unimportant "affair of outposts," one +of those common incidents of warfare that are never recorded--never +remembered save here and there by some sad face unnoticed in the crowd. +Four of the men were dead; one, a Frenchman was still alive, though +bleeding copiously from a deep wound in the chest that with a handful of +dank grass he was trying to staunch. + +Ulrich raised him in his arms. The man spoke no German, and Ulrich +knew but his mother tongue; but when the man, turning towards the +neighbouring village with a look of terror in his half-glazed eyes, +pleaded with his hands, Ulrich understood, and lifting him gently +carried him further into the wood. + +He found a small deserted shelter that had been made by +charcoal-burners, and there on a bed of grass and leaves Ulrich laid +him; and there for a week all but a day Ulrich tended him and nursed him +back to life, coming and going stealthily like a thief in the darkness. +Then Ulrich, who had thought his one desire in life to be to kill all +Frenchmen, put food and drink into the Frenchman's knapsack and guided +him half through the night and took his hand; and so they parted. + +Ulrich did not return to Alt Waldnitz, that lies hidden in the forest +beside the murmuring Muhlde. They would think he had gone to the war; +he would let them think so. He was too great a coward to go back to them +and tell them that he no longer wanted to fight; that the sound of the +drum brought to him only the thought of trampled grass where dead men +lay with curses in their eyes. + +So, with head bowed down in shame, to and fro about the moaning land, +Ulrich of the dreamy eyes came and went, guiding his solitary footsteps +by the sounds of sorrow, driving away the things of evil where they +crawled among the wounded, making his way swiftly to the side of pain, +heedless of the uniform. + +Thus one day he found himself by chance near again to forest-girdled +Waldnitz. He would push his way across the hills, wander through its +quiet ways in the moonlight while the good folks all lay sleeping. His +foot-steps quickened as he drew nearer. Where the trees broke he would +be able to look down upon it, see every roof he knew so well--the +church, the mill, the winding Muhlde--the green, worn grey with dancing +feet, where, when the hateful war was over, would be heard again the +Saxon folk-songs. + +Another was there, where the forest halts on the brow of the hill--a +figure kneeling on the ground with his face towards the village. Ulrich +stole closer. It was the Herr Pfarrer, praying volubly but inaudibly. He +scrambled to his feet as Ulrich touched him, and his first astonishment +over, poured forth his tale of woe. + +There had been trouble since Ulrich's departure. A French corps of +observation had been camped upon the hill, and twice within the month +had a French soldier been found murdered in the woods. Heavy had been +the penalties exacted from the village, and terrible had been the +Colonel's threats of vengeance. Now, for a third time, a soldier stabbed +in the back had been borne into camp by his raging comrades, and this +very afternoon the Colonel had sworn that if the murderer were not +handed over to him within an hour from dawn, when the camp was to break +up, he would before marching burn the village to the ground. The Herr +Pfarrer was on his way back from the camp where he had been to plead for +mercy, but it had been in vain. + +"Such are foul deeds!" said Ulrich. + +"The people are mad with hatred of the French," answered the Herr +Pastor. "It may be one, it may be a dozen who have taken vengeance into +their own hands. May God forgive them." + +"They will not come forward--not to save the village?" + +"Can you expect it of them! There is no hope for us; the village will +burn as a hundred others have burned." + +Aye, that was true; Ulrich had seen their blackened ruins; the old +sitting with white faces among the wreckage of their homes, the little +children wailing round their knees, the tiny broods burned in their +nests. He had picked their corpses from beneath the charred trunks of +the dead elms. + +The Herr Pfarrer had gone forward on his melancholy mission to prepare +the people for their doom. + +Ulrich stood alone, looking down upon Alt Waldnitz bathed in moonlight. +And there came to him the words of the old pastor: "She will be dearer +to you than yourself. For her you would lay down your life." And Ulrich +knew that his love was the village of Alt Waldnitz, where dwelt his +people, the old and wrinkled, the laughing "little ones," where dwelt +the helpless dumb things with their deep pathetic eyes, where the bees +hummed drowsily, and the thousand tiny creatures of the day. + +They hanged him high upon a withered elm, with his face towards Alt +Waldnitz, that all the village, old and young, might see; and then to +the beat of drum and scream of fife they marched away; and forest-hidden +Waldnitz gathered up once more its many threads of quiet life and wove +them into homely pattern. + +They talked and argued many a time, and some there were who praised and +some who blamed. But the Herr Pfarrer could not understand. + +Until years later a dying man unburdened his soul so that the truth +became known. + +Then they raised Ulrich's coffin reverently, and the young men carried +it into the village and laid it in the churchyard that it might always +be among them. They reared above him what in their eyes was a grand +monument, and carved upon it: + +"Greater love hath no man than this." + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl, by Jerome K. Jerome + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOVE OF ULRICH NEBENDAHL *** + +***** This file should be named 870.txt or 870.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/8/7/870/ + +Produced by Ron Burkey, and Amy Thomte + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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