It cost the happy
It cost the happy
It cost the happy dreamer no small struggling to forsake his safe and hospitable bed; he rolled to this side and to that; but the pealing voice of the worshipful Knight came heavy on his heart; and dally as he might, the sour apple must at last bebit. So he rose from his down; and immediately a dozen hands were busy dressing him. The Ritter led him into the parlour, where a small wellfurnished table waited them; but now, when the hour of reckoning had arrived, the traveller's appetite was gone. The host endeavoured to encourage him. " Why do you not get to ? Come, take somewhat for the raw foggy morning."" Herr Ritter," answered Franz, " my stomach is still too full of your supper; but my pockets are empty; these I may fill for the hunger that is to come."With this he began stoutly cramming, and stowed himself with the daintiest and best that was transportable, till all his tory burch shoespockets were bursting. Then observing that his horse, well curried and equipt, was led past, he took a dram of Dantzig, for tory burch flatsgoodb'ye, in the thought that this would be the watchword for his host to catch him by the neck, and exercise his household privileges.But, to his astonishment, the Ritter shook him kind ly by the hand, as at his first entrance, wished him luck by the way, and the bolted door was tory burch outletthrown open. He loitered not in putting spurs to his nag; and, tip! tap! he was without the gate, and no hair of him harmed.A heavy stone was lifted from his heart, as he found himself in safety, and saw that he bad got away with a whole skin. He could not understand how the landlord had trusted him the shot, which, as he imagined, must hare run pretty high on the chalk; and he embraced with warm lore the hospitable man, whose clublaw arm he had so much dreaded; and he felt a strong desire to search out, at the fountainhead, the reason or tory burch saleunreason of the ill report whieh had affrighted him.