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Villa Eden Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Villa Eden novel. A total of 236 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Villa Eden.by Berthold Auerbach.BOOK I.CHAPTER I.THE APPARITION."Be patient a few:
Villa Eden.by Berthold Auerbach.BOOK I.CHAPTER I.THE APPARITION."Be patient a few: minutes longer! There's a man beckoning to go with us," said the boatman to his pa.s.sengers, two women and one man. The man was gray-haired, of slender form
- 201 Sonnenkamp supported himself by grasping the table. A vertigo seemed to seize him, and he cried,-- "Do you hear, Manna? Do you hear? And will you reject such a n.o.bleman?Revoke your decision, my child; I will implore you on my knees. See, how perver
- 202 "Indeed? Then you expect still to be believed? Yes, fine, n.o.ble, good, magnanimous man, I possess a great deal, but not what you ask,--faith in you. I had this faith once, it was my last illusion. I don't swear it; but I know that it's my
- 203 CHAPTER VIII.THE NEW CAIN.After the men had a.s.sembled, Eric knocked at the door, according to a pre-concerted arrangement; and, as it opened, Sonnenkamp came forward.A bluish pallor rested on his countenance, as he stepped up to the little table where t
- 204 Clodwig whispered to Eric,-- "Cain slew his brother: the Cain of today sells his brother."CHAPTER IX.CONSULTATION OF THE MEN, AND A WOMAN'S VERDICT.Who could describe the various changes of expression in the features of the judges during So
- 205 And then she added:-- "Very well, let him take me up here."The carriage drove up; and Bella seated herself by Clodwig's side without his getting out: he sat s.h.i.+vering in one corner."Why do you not ask how I am?" said he, in a
- 206 He rode to the Priest's, and sent for Fraulein Perini, who came.First he asked her if she wished to remain any longer in the family.Fraulein Perini, looking him full in the face, declared that she hoped she had not mistaken him in supposing that he w
- 207 A tornado swept through the park, eddying around the house; and the fires just kindled in it were extinguished. The many fire-places were of no avail, the whole house was full of smoke; and a whirling gust of wind seemed to tear all the inmates of Villa E
- 208 She gave Eric her hand, and it was cold as ice. The three were speechless for some time, until Eric asked,-- "Is there no hope?""No. The Doctor says that he has probably only a few hours to live. Do you hear any thing? The Doctor has promis
- 209 MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD OF A DYING SEER.Clodwig slept several hours, while Eric sat with the Banker, and drew refreshment from his self-forgetting sympathy. The Banker failed in many of the ordinary forms of society; but he possessed a nature full of tact,
- 210 "When you drive to Wolfsgarten again, take me with you."Manna begged Eric to rest; but Eric saw that there was no rest for him, for he received very soon a note from Bella by a messenger, in which were these words, written in great haste,-- &quo
- 211 CHAPTER XVI.AWAY UNDER FIERY RAIN!A damp, autumnal fog penetrated Clodwig's sick-room through the open windows, and lay in drops on the brow of the statue of Victory.Still and desolate it was at Wolfsgarten: even Pranken had gone.Bella sat in her roo
- 212 "O Bella! n.o.ble soul, alone great among women, cast away all these European casuistries; with a single step put this whole, old-maidish Europe behind you!"A still longer pause followed: there was no sound but the screaming of the parrot."
- 213 Suddenly the cry was raised,-- "Hurrah! here comes the story-teller."Eric recognized the man who had been a great favorite with all ever since he had spent his first night in the city, at the Doctor's house.He had one of those faces, red wi
- 214 "Is he alone?""No.""That, too, must we have to bear!""Does your mother know?""She only knows that father has fled; and she keeps crying, 'Henry, Henry, come back!' For hours, she has kept saying those
- 215 The notary now came from the adjoining room. Eric and Weidmann returned, and signed a receipt for the whole amount.Eric now learned for the first time that Roland had insisted on Adams being brought. Knopf said in an aside to Eric, that he might be proud
- 216 "Oh, no! What seems eccentric to others appears to me the only natural and consistent course, Bella could not have acted otherwise than she has: this very step was a part of her heroism. Your son can tell you that I suspected something of this sort b
- 217 There was a pause in which no one stirred, and the Priest resumed,-- "I have spoken, I have warned, I have called as I was forced to, and because I was forced. I appeal to thee whose mortal frame we are here consigning to the earth, speak to thy children
- 218 The Banker's daughter-in-law, a lady of n.o.ble bearing, treated Eric and Roland with marked cordiality, and expressed a great desire to become acquainted with the Professorin and Manna.Eric was surprised at being reminded of an incident that had almost
- 219 But who would have guessed that the covetousness of the Cabinetsrathen would be first discussed as a kind of appetizing morsel! This was the way with great people. Of course, one could get clothes from Paris by such machinations. A magnificent system of b
- 220 The next day, Eric went back to Villa Eden, and announced to Manna and his mother his own intention of removing to Mattenheim.A strange conflict ensued in Manna's breast; but, as she made no allusion to it, Eric thought it right to respect her reserve.Th
- 221 Weidmann, on the other hand, revealed them in their simple, natural aspect. He introduced method into Roland's thought, life, and work; for, thus far, the latter had been too unstable, even in spiritual things. He gave Roland a course of lessons in agric
- 222 "On the one hand, you deny the operation of eternal laws; on the other, you fear it. Now look at these ma.s.ses of ice in the river. Do you care to learn something of that immeasurable and all-pervading wisdom which interrupts the laws of Nature when the
- 223 Weidmann paused, adding the remark that Prince Valerian, who was now leaving for his native land, would there find a similar state of transition.The last remark was lost upon Manna, who said to Eric in an undertone,-- "Oh, our father! Do you not think th
- 224 One evening, when they were all together at Mattenheim, Weidmann read a letter from Doctor Fritz, in which he described the base league of the so-called Knights of the Golden Circle. A network of their societies extended over all the Southern States, and
- 225 "You did bravely, young--forgive me--my brother!"On returning to the hall they all rose; and Weidmann, bidding Roland and Eric take Adams's hand, began as follows,-- "Here, while we clasp our dusky brother in our arms, you see what we are! Through the
- 226 "You are to be present too."The Major, having called thither the Banker and Professor Einsiedel, declared his readiness to yield to the instance of his friends, and reside at the Villa, in order to superintend and keep everything in good condition; but
- 227 The moon stood over the stream, bathing with trembling light tree and bush, where the buds were gently bursting and the nightingale unweariedly singing. The world was flooded with bliss.For three days they remained alone at the castle, and on the third ev
- 228 The glee-club made its appearance with a band of music, and clear songs rang out from the pretty and graceful steamer which now came down the stream. The cannon were fired; the boat stopped; and hurried partings were made. Eric, Manna, and Roland kissed t
- 229 I have not written for five days, and now, mother, the man who is writing to you has been, with his nearest and dearest, in the jaws of death.We have lived through a storm such as our captain, a seaman of three-and-twenty years experience, has never seen
- 230 Oh, what glorious people we Germans are! Wherever we are transplanted, here in the air of freedom especially, we shoot up, and show, for the first time, what we really are.I stood by when Roland and Lilian met; they must have some secret sign of recogniti
- 231 Have I already told you that our friend Knopf has found a charming little wife? She is full of intelligence, modesty, and energy. She, too, has had religious conflicts to undergo, as I have, not so severe; but then she has had a hard fight with herself. L
- 232 Our good Major wants to have a room built in the hot-house, and, next winter, live there all day long among the plants, breathing in their fragrance; then, he a.s.serts, he should live to be a hundred years old.[Claudine to Manna.]If you feel overwhelmed
- 233 We have fought a battle; we have been defeated. Roland has distinguished himself, and been promoted. I have to use all my influence to restrain his daring.The coolness and deliberation of your grand-nephew Hermann are a great help to me.The hardest thing
- 234 "Come! come! I did not kill him, he gave the masonic sign--I dared not kill him--he's lying outside there.""Who?""The man--the man."I had great difficulty in getting him to speak the name. It was Sonnenkamp.I took a phys
- 235 Thy living, loving, beloved son Eric.(Then in Manna's hand-writing:) Don't be alarmed at these unsteady strokes. The physician says that all danger is over, and nothing is needed but absolute rest.Oh, mother! How can I adequately thank the Eternal Spiri
- 236 Is not the quiet communion with one's self, which is our most precious treasure, destroyed or banished by living in such close relations with others?I think that it is not, and only those who pine for rest shall enter the home.I beg you not to consid