"Thank you, good Gottlieb," said she meeting him at the door, "thank
you, your uncle has been unfortunate this morning; but come with me to
the dairy, and you shall have the cream of an entire pan of milk."
"The milk also, if you please, aunty, I feel myself able to devour every
thing, pan and all."
"Well, satisfy yourself. By and by we will go to my bleachery and you
may select a piece of linen.--Do you understand?"
"Not a word. It is all a mystery. But I do know that there is not a
nephew on the entire Scandinavian peninsula, who possesses an aunt with
such an affectionate disposition."
"Ah, you flatterer, it is well that you are my nephew or else Fabian
might be jealous."
"Well I am not sure but that he may yet have an occasion, for, I am not
aware that nephews are forbidden to love their aunts."
From that day forward Gottlieb was taken under the especial protection
of his aunt, and as her favorite he was certain of a comfortable and
pleasant life. When she became acquainted with his manners, virtues and
accomplishments, her esteem for him was, if possible, doubly increased.
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