I looked after it the whole
summer. Later on I had a larger piece. With the profits we cut
ditches up to here. In the fourth year we bought plants. In fact,
he so arranged it, that I paid for it all with my work, the old
rogue!"
When Rafael got home his mother was at table: she had not waited
for him, a sure sign that she felt aggrieved. No attempts on his
part to set things right succeeded. She would not answer, and soon
left the room. It now struck him how pleasant it would have been
for his mother if he had taken her with him to explore and make
acquaintance with this new Hellebergene. The evening before, in
his father's rooms, it had seemed as though nothing could ever
separate them--and the first thing in the morning he was off with
some one else. This evening he knew that nothing could be done,
but next morning he begged her earnestly to come with them, and
they would show her what he had seen the day before; but she only
shook her head and took up a book. Day after day he made a similar
request, but always with the same result. She thought that these
invitations were merely formal, and so, from one point of view,
they were.
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