Eight Years in Germany
by Ida Alexa Ross Wylie (9781459068766)

Eight Years in Germany (Book)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE NEW GENERATION rpHERE seems, perhaps, little enough connection -- between the religion of Germany and her children, and yet for me it comes naturally to think of them as closely allied, as part of each other. In the minds of the kindergarten babies of to-day there slumbers the Faith and Ideal of to-morrow, and in the children I knew seven or eight years ago I think I find significant clues to the men and women of the new generation. It was chance that made me realise the value of these clues. I had a good deal to do with children, and amongst them there was a little friend of whom I was peculiarly fond. I knew her first when she was about thirteen?a gay, life-loving schoolgirl, with her pigtails and her admirers and her hundred and one enthusiasms. In my spare hours I used to help her with her English lessons, and once she corrected my English grammar, but so tactfully and sweetly that I never felt the full bitterness of the blow. We romped together, and now and again I caught glimpses of a side of her, so wise and thoxightful that I scarcely believed in it. And then one day a lingering illness seized upon her,and six months later she was dead. I was with her a few days before her death. She did not know she was dying, but she had that curious, lofty detachment of those on whom the shadow has fallen. Quite gaily she talked about her future, of the theatre that had been promised her next week, of how she was to act as " one of the crowd " in a performance of Julius Ccesar given by her school, of her small doings in the time when she had been well and strong. But all the time it seemed to me that she was talking of someone else, not even of one person only, but of all her school friends, as though she were giving me secret keys to all their hidden thoughts and ...

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