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'Herr Kl&uuive me a small sum for the iht hesitation

'Mother! for s hter,' Frau Lenore replied in the saan questioning hie, and whether there were no obstacles to contracting es with Catholics as in Prussia (At that time, in 1840, all Germany still remembered the controversy between the Prussian Governes) When Frau Lenore heard that by hter would herself become of noble rank, she evinced a certain satisfaction 'But, of course, you will first have to go to Russia?'

'Why?'

'Why? Why, to obtain the permission of your Tsar'

Sanin explained to her that that was not at all necessarybut that he o to Russia for a very short tie--(he said these words, and his heart ached painfully, Gerew drea in his own country to sell his estatein any case he would bring back the ood Astrakhan laood, I hear, and wonderfully cheap!'

'Certainly, with the greatest pleasure, I will bring some for you and for Gemma!' cried Sanin

'And forhis head in fro it youand some slippers for Pantaleone'

'Come, that's nonsense, nonsense,' observed Frau Lenore 'We are talking now of serious matters But there's another point,' added the practical lady 'You talk of selling your estate But hoill you do that? Will you sell your peasants then, too?'

Sanin felt so like a stab at his heart He renora Roselli and her daughter about serfdonation, he had repeatedly assured them that never on any account would he sell his peasants, as he regarded such a sale as an immoral act

'I will try and sellof,' he articulated, not without faltering, 'or perhaps the peasants themselves ant to buy their freedom'