Capitolo 21
young days, and on my father's return from Bohemia, he passed, through Saxony and paid this cousin a visit; He still speaks every now and then of that delicious event. I don't have to forget to tell him what this cousin was a baron--Baron's von Rosenberg. He was not born the title; you/he/she was conferred on him for of the heroic action, the circumstance of which I don't now remember, during an insurrection. "To dividing with my father to the closing of his/her visit, the Baron it did, him many expensive gifts; among others, one of an elegant pipe seldom and delicious workmanship. As separately I remember now it! It was in the form of the head of an elk, with gently scattering him/it beaten ramifications. The eyes were formed of some kind of precious stones, and on the face of the elk the initials of the Baron were engraved in the gold. "The stem, I remember well, it was made out of ebony, richly adorned with gold. I suppose that it was a magnificent thing of his/her kind, and it appreciated over measure from my father. He only used him on rare occasions, and for the gratification of our guests. But it happened for a long time an event that provoked the pipe done treasure than from his/her casket, never to be returned. It was on the occasion of the third anniversary of mine father's marriage to Rebecca Hartz--an occasion that has richly deserved sackcloth and ashes instead of banqueting and the joy. But the day it was one of great demonstration, and many guests and friends were in presence. All the articles of value and luxury that belong to the family was brought in question, and among the number, the made treasure of but pipe to bad result. The guests ate, they drank, and they were happy, I suppose, you cultivate all they were sated, and to a slow and solitary now their left my father's house abandoned, with trouble that reigns supreme in every apartment. "'You don't forget the head of my elk, Rebecca', it was my father it is last admonition, as he retired to his/her bed-room, after the has a good time it was on. "But Rebecca didn't keep in mind of his/her command, and being fatigued her,
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