What is the matter with the child?
What reason did she give ?" "She did not say much," answered the pastor; "she seemed to be almost afraid of me.

She went off to the door and began to cry, and said--" "What--what did she say ?" "She simply kept repeating 'no,'" answered the chaplain, quite crestfallen.
Mrs.Garman could not disguise her astonishment.
The bright sunshine had not the same enlivening effect upon the pastor as he returned to his lodgings.

He, however, managed to control both his feelings and his countenance.

This was a trial that he would have to receive with humility.

The only thing that annoyed him was, that he had said anything about it to Mrs.Garman.
Mr.Martens's proposal was the only thing that was wanted to complete the life of wretchedness, which Madeleine had passed ever since that moonlight autumn evening; and yet the chaplain was to a certain extent right, when he thought that Madeleine had met him with some degree of warmth.