--- title: Legends and Tales., part 4 — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · full text with trees description: Legends and Tales., part 4, «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: But let us not be too hard on the Baron in this respect, for the English often make as ludicrous errors in German. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/) / Legends and Tales., part 4 # Legends and Tales., part 4 Legends and Tales., part 4 of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder: the whole text, 105 sentences and 2560 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/page/2/) But let us not be too hard on the Baron in this respect, for the English often make as ludicrous errors in German.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") The writer heard a young lady in Cologne order Himmelfleisch, meaning Hammelfleisch.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") She intended to ask for mutton, but in reality ordered heaven's meat.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") And the waiter, with his solemn, impenetrable face, replied, "I regret we have not that dish."[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") A gentleman in Leipzig ordered Kinderbraten and Pantoffel--child roast and slippers\![5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") He wanted Rinderbraten and Kartoffel--roast beef and potatoes\![6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") People who drop their H's in English do the same in German.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") An English girl driving away from Ballenstedt, cried out, "Farewell, Arz!"[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") At the hotel by the Radau waterfall an old man ordered the Kellner to bring beer, and called after him, "Aber ell!"[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Hell he meant--clear or white in contrast to brown beer.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") He had been parading about and ordering the Kellner as if he owned the whole place, which made his missing h all the more amusing.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") But to return to the Baron.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") May spoke of the towered village church nestling so confidingly in the rich foliage, and regretted she had not yet seen the interior, but hoped to the following Sunday.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") "Pray, Miss Rosenmore, you do not keep up that absurd idea of going to church?[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") I have not been in a church for five years.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") While they insist on preaching the old fables that nobody believes any more, I shall not go.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") I can attend to my religion much better in my own room, or in the woods, where the trees form nobler Gothic arches than any cathedral, from Köln and Halberstadt down.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Even meine Mutter told me not to trouble myself about the Bible, for there was no truth in it."[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") "Woe to any mother who could give such advice!" cried May, in great excitement.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") She spoke of some of the strongest proofs of the Divine origin of the Bible, and asked the Baron if he could explain why it was that Christian nations were the most elevated, those without the light of revelation being the degraded ones.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") "Oh!" said he, "such a view has something beautiful in it; but it is only a delusion, a transition period in the history and development of mind, I might say, the Raupenkleid--chrysalis--of education, out of which the splendid and brilliant butterfly of free thought breaks forth, and Science unfolds her golden wings, and in her commanding presence, the old orthodox Bible-faith can never again lift its head.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") "There is an endless primeval matter, I may say the Urkraft--first cause--of all things, which is scattered in countless atoms in eternal space.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") "From this primeval matter, during the course of millions on millions of ages, slowly and gradually unfolded beings, from the most insignificant to the highest.[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") From a scrap of mud, through the effect of light and heat, perhaps by contact with some other body, a frog was produced.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") Nearest related to the frog stands the Labyrinthodonten, whose hand-like foot-tracks have been found in the sandstone, and which is decidedly the transition between these animals and the higher species of the ape; and from the ape, during impossible-to-comprehend ages, man has sprung, at first rough and animal, as we see to-day in savage races, from step to step unfolding and rising, till we have the Mensch of our present civilization and refinement."[25](25/ "tree and pragmatics") All this was said with a foppish, self-satisfied air, as if he were a personification of wisdom.[26](26/ "tree and pragmatics") May looked at him in amazement, wondering at his shallowness.[27](27/ "tree and pragmatics") At length she said, "Concerning origin and ancestors I will not now dispute.[28](28/ "tree and pragmatics") If you deny the Bible, we have no common ground of argument; and if your argument be true, we have after this life--nothing.[29](29/ "tree and pragmatics") Let proud Science beware lest she scorch her 'golden wings' in the avenging fire of Divine wrath.[30](30/ "tree and pragmatics") "If you are content with the doctrine of man's descent from an ape, originally, according to your own argument, from a frog\![31](31/ "tree and pragmatics") I deny its truth, and claim mine from an eternal, omnipotent and holy Creator, and personal Father, not simply an eviges Sein--eternal state of being--but something infinitely and incomprehensibly more exalted."[32](32/ "tree and pragmatics") Here the conversation was interrupted by the approach of the Baronin, accompanied by a tall noble-looking lady attired in black.[33](33/ "tree and pragmatics") May started, for it was the lady in the photo of the lost sketch-book.[34](34/ "tree and pragmatics") Her friend introduced the stranger as the Countess von Omnesky, a lady of Russian birth, but who had been partly educated in England, her father having long filled an official position there under the Russian Government.[35](35/ "tree and pragmatics") The Countess was still young, only five-and-twenty, of a pale, melancholy, but highly intelligent countenance, and her sapphire blue eyes had a mournful, far-away look in them, that touched one deeply.[36](36/ "tree and pragmatics") Their conversation turned on the beauties of Harz scenery, and its romantic ruins, and the Countess remarked she had only the other day visited the Regenstein, and during the day had lost an object, to her of great value--a sketch-book, filled by her late husband, with the exception of the last sketch, which she had herself sketched after his death.[37](37/ "tree and pragmatics") May drew forth the sketch-book, which she had purposely carried in her pocket, and handed it to her, remarking she had recognized her from the photo at the first glance, and explained how it had come into her possession.[38](38/ "tree and pragmatics") The Countess turned to the sketch in the arbour, remarking, "We were sitting thus, when Karl was summoned to join his regiment at the breaking out of the last war between France and Germany.[39](39/ "tree and pragmatics") We had only been married three weeks when France declared war, and my joy was broken for ever.[40](40/ "tree and pragmatics") If you will not be wearied, I will tell you the history."[41](41/ "tree and pragmatics") May assured her of her deep interest and sympathy, and they seated themselves under a magnificent oak near the lake.[42](42/ "tree and pragmatics") "My sister Olga and I were married on the same day to two brothers, German officers, just three weeks before the commencement of the war.[43](43/ "tree and pragmatics") We were in Switzerland at the time of the mobilization of the German army, and hastening to obey the call, we repaired to Berlin, where we took leave of one another, never again all to meet in this world.[44](44/ "tree and pragmatics") "Olga and I remained a short time in Berlin, but after the reports of the battle \_bei\_ Worth we grew too excited to stay so far from the scene of action; and accordingly went to Baden, taking only our maid with us, and not wishing to go to an hotel, we took apartments in a private \_pension\_ kept by a family from Edinburgh, two old maids and their brother, Mac Stab by name; and though I have travelled over nearly all Europe their equal I have never met, and have reason to believe Scotland or Germany could produce few such creatures.[45](45/ "tree and pragmatics") "You may imagine the difficulties of travelling in time of war, with soldiers being transported to active service, and the sick and wounded to hospitals; and we lost our luggage, consisting only of two trunks.[46](46/ "tree and pragmatics") "We explained to the elder Miss Mac Stab, who wore a couple of pig-tail curls each side of her face, that our trunks were lost, but we hoped would be found in a day or two.[47](47/ "tree and pragmatics") "The second day passed, but our missing trunks did not appear--in fact never did--and the third morning, as poor Olga was descending the stairs for breakfast, Miss Mac Stab attacked her crying out, 'See the painted Jezebel! with her curls and diamond rings\![48](48/ "tree and pragmatics") The impostor seeks to deceive honest folk with her pretended wedding ring and tales of lost luggage!'[49](49/ "tree and pragmatics") **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/page/2/) - ← previous: [Legends and Tales., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/4/) - next →: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/5/page/2/) - ↑ back to [Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/)