"I have directed him to the pastor's study, so that the table can be set here, for I must go out again to the little boy.

The gentleman has snow-white hair but he has a fresh, ruddy face and walks straight like an army man or a commander." "And he came alone ?" asked the mistress.

"Then he does not bring Erick?
Who may he be ?" Meanwhile the tall, strange gentleman had entered the pastor's study below, with the words: "Colonel von Vestentrop, of Denmark.

The gentleman will excuse me if I interrupt him." The pastor was so surprised that for a moment he could not collect his wits.

Erick's grandfather! There stood the man bodily before him, whose existence had been to him a mere fairy tale, and the man looked so stately and so commanding, that everyone who beheld him must be inspired with respect.