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MIRACLE-PLAY AT OBER-AMMERGAU.
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away from those equally beloved mountains which had so
long called us, as it were, with their spirit-voices, and which
now glowed in the sunlight with ever-changing rainbow
hues. Still, as we caught sight of the two familiar towers
of the Frauen Kirche, we were bound to acknowledge
that a city for poor civilized human beings was, after all, a
fitter abode than an Alpine peak. More especially did we
feel this truth when seated at our tea-table on the evening
of the following day, devouring our English papers and
English letters, which we so pleasantly found awraiting us.
What further ? We had not a drop of rain during the
whole time, and our one purse did turn out the purse of
Fortunatus. ’Without sparing, and without borrovmig, we
reached Munich with yet twelve Kreutzers left. The for-
gotten purse, with its full contents of large florin pieces,
lay quietly with our letters and papers to greet us on our
return.
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away from those equally beloved mountains which had so
long called us, as it were, with their spirit-voices, and which
now glowed in the sunlight with ever-changing rainbow
hues. Still, as we caught sight of the two familiar towers
of the Frauen Kirche, we were bound to acknowledge
that a city for poor civilized human beings was, after all, a
fitter abode than an Alpine peak. More especially did we
feel this truth when seated at our tea-table on the evening
of the following day, devouring our English papers and
English letters, which we so pleasantly found awraiting us.
What further ? We had not a drop of rain during the
whole time, and our one purse did turn out the purse of
Fortunatus. ’Without sparing, and without borrovmig, we
reached Munich with yet twelve Kreutzers left. The for-
gotten purse, with its full contents of large florin pieces,
lay quietly with our letters and papers to greet us on our
return.
VOL. I.