"You sing excellently, Nanna, and I think your voice would be improved
if you could play upon the guitar. I have one at home, and might bring
it with me."
"But the guitar would not benefit my future pupils."
"It will serve for your amusement after your scholars have left you in
the afternoon. You will find such a relaxation quite necessary, and when
you play upon it, and sing one of your beautiful ballads, you will think
of your friend."
"And drive away the tedium of the long hours.--O, sir, you are too
kind!"
"Stop, Nanna! Call me Gottlieb, not sir. You know friends should--"
"Thanks, Sir Gottlieb! What a beautiful name! But it is quite late!"
Nanna, who was fearful that Magde, anxious at her long absence, would
come in search of her, arose from her seat upon the grass, and hastily
departed.
CHAPTER VII.
THE CHASE.
The next morning, a few hours before Carl, whistling a ballad of which
he was the author, commenced his journey over ditches and stiles, to
fulfill his engagement to watch with the children of the peasant woman,
Mr.
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