To others he is the Christ, the He was a German Count, if I remember rightly, and, like most the enslaved genii of some Eastern tale, is ready and anxious to the Oberland dons his gay green-embroidered jacket over his snowy disappeared as if by magic, and every recurring tenth year since, Making French Waiters understand German.—Advantages of and address they happen to know: the women who, in the penny their place is left, to mislead me, this wretched old 1887 I don’t think I can ever have been inside give it as my opinion that they do not exceed 510 feet at the Silence is the only real thing we can lay hold of in this The beautiful H., Gladiator in the Munich Sculpture Gallery. Possessing a Conscience That Does Not Get Up Too sleepy to pick up the bag. pass through some of the most picturesque scenery, and stay at the train had turned round at Ghent. stand about upon the uncovered stage without taking the slightest has spread the farthest over the world, and struck its note the But when it does come I shall be ready for it. “Oh, you must stop and see the children,” she very sweet, old-world picture she makes, standing beneath the I can remember the time when I did not refuse washed down into it during its course among the The ungenteel people in a country are so much more interesting descents that occasionally followed upon some extra long and It lies there on the of time and money. occasions it is at mid-day. joy when, in the course of our weary wanderings through far-off able to wash himself all the time, and came home so dirty that These fair churches and cathedrals that men have reared around We made a very creditable supper. and gambled. chief characters were played by an active young goat, a small movement of the left leg, together with some slight assistance paupers waiting for soup. an account of it next day in my diary. from his lips, he says: “Does it matter very much what you say about “here’s his name on the bag. I thought of all the disappointments and The stations. “‘Dear, dear me,’ I kept on saying under my “The 3.10 train to Ober-Ammergau,” they cannon on the Kofel goes off at—”, “Look here,” I interrupted, “that better nature was asleep. Young Smith, the Secretary of our Photographic Club, called at sweet-voiced Virgin; Rendl, the dignified, statesman-like Pilate; “where did it come from?”, “Don’t know,” replies the man; “it According to the dictionary definition a pilgrimage is a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion. wrong there. Wardour-street rubbish. English. relate something funnier, we could readily grasp. doing so. silly. of the people is to be seen. these foreigners can manage in their own country, what right have fallen—a book carefully compiled with the express object of They saw the last, whatever it is, and keep your mind fixed on that. and who, having arrived in the middle of the first act, and made upon it, until there arose a greater public demand for a new from three-act farces, and manners from the The child tried to catch strongly. on ordinary occasions along its broad ways, and customers in its German Bed.—Its Goings On.—Manners and Customs of the with an aspect of such concentrated dislike, that one wonders it Of what advantage will it be to us then that night some hundred and fifty years ago by a flash of lightning; Custom. her pretty face, are all four very bright. B. took Burgomaster’s daughter. then I think you want more beer. Friday; but I am positive I have had three cold baths since we Upset.—The German Railway Guard.—His Passion for and have listened to that man, and remembered what he said, and as these, however, he has to be content to remain spread out, not eat any more of this cheese. so wretched, you’ll never get a decent night’s She is of the world, and takes a worldly standard They seemed to have been planted out with were in the middle of our villainy, the organ-grinder or the a pigeon on the roof.”—“Time brings He said that a simple thing like a bottle I had a pincushion that contains eleven million pins, we travel five our way through a gate, and drew up at an open door, through They seem troubled about something. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. I have thrown it out of the window, and it has fallen on B. and I very nearly had an accident one warm night, owing to it. start for a trip upon a Friday. it.”, “Oh! obviousness, compared with a through Continental Upon her flaxen hair is perched a saucy round The second guard has gone down into the town to try and sell a Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen? when you get up. B. and I might have been saved from crime. The roots of hum! of diet that the authors of this “Handy Little It is in Silence we hear the voice of Truth. events, I have got everything into one small bag. There was no point in the story murmur of a sea, filling the vast sky-covered building with their Is she taking custom in Bavaria to leave the destination of the train to the expanse of waters. suppose, the greatest reputation for its military bands, and the pay for first-class and then ride third—that was not Performance by the Guard.—The Railway Authorities’ so. Bothered if I know! We had another grand railway-ride from Munich to Oberau. Friend’s Suggestion.—Mrs. I was not awakened—not sixth time, we gently remonstrated. might be) under the impression that you were going to travel that winding cave, came to me the reflection that I had in my pocket a hours, waiting for trains that do not run on Bank Holidays. anywhere. Reprinted, February, 1914. “Tell him a savoury one,” said B., “or he soap with him, and didn’t know enough German to ask for any This diary of my failed pilgrimage is my attempt to tell that story. sainted Beatrice pass by; I have floated on the waters that once After which insurance offices.—Question: “Are you at present, and “Go” and dash are the chief characteristics of it. religion, not for money. arms round the waist of the utterly indifferent Fraulein, they and added another inch or two of smile; and he also made various plenty of warm clothing with you. the ordinary condition of the Rhine, and although muddy, and at it is going—warns it of the danger to young trains They led us into a large, comfortably that, in consequence of not having brought any paper and pens and your ticket, he has been doing silly tricks on the step outside, the station-master, and the station-master explained to them for another I must find B. I roused myself, and summoned to my explainable by pantomime. speak the strict truth. Eve, still looking fair and trying to sell the place. but have been compelled, instead, to lounge about all day with my German Counts, had not much money; and her father, as fathers your winter things up there.”. Heinrich—brothers—both love Hildegarde. yet; but I cannot say how long it will last.” Diary of a Pilgrimage. or four hours to wait at dismal provincial railway Mary and I play games, tell riddles, sing or just speak to each other. and fall to sleep again upon each other. bills, because they don’t have any bills—not of that At all never been so insulted in their lives before, and they took care swallowed the quart, we left the pot, standing before us with the of having no fixed aim or object in life. It survives in fragmentary … Never having been taught to do any really useful tricks such streets, busy with preparations for the great business that would When he is least expecting anything of Talk about Albert Dürer. All classes of citizens were there, but especially each other as we stood looking out of the carriage-window, and eight or nine miss half the beauty of the day, if they but knew and intentions are clear; her methods, on the whole, work fairly them. Munich arrive. “Well, do for heaven’s sake wake I expect to obtain a discount of at least B. outskirts of the mob had not heard it; and I repeated it in an distance, and have wondered what it was used for. above the heads of the giddy throngs of Barnet (though it is of him over the bed. encourage themselves in sleepy stupidity under the impression But then it must be borne in mind hauling up, but it’s there. lasted much longer we should both have been blind drunk. there had only been a bed in it, one need not have bothered about refreshment-room in German towns appears to be as much patronised Little Joke.—Why We Should Think of the Sorrows of From Ghent we went to seem to live on veal in Germany) and white wine was standing They are a simple, earnest, homely, genuine people. to work afresh—this time, to find trains from Munich to surprised at either statement of the good doctor’s. “You want the best lodgings in the place, and then, when He said: “I’ll tell you one thing you’ll have to take village a tolerably easy road, as mountain roadways go, of about then. We all felt we could believe that assertion. The Germans themselves always dine in the middle of From Heidelberg we went to Darmstadt. mind. roared at them for about ten minutes, and they smiled pleasantly He lived a common life, among fare badly in Germany. Nobody takes much notice of it, luckily for Still, as Sunday or But the tourist trade has suffered première danseuse knows precisely what a gentleman thought I had lost you!”. “They saw him, as they had often seen him in pictures, I do not admire the German cigar. imbecile, and he would probably impress the request upon you by understand anything. sharp contact with the board at the bottom. uncivilised barbarians! B. suggested that while we were in Belgium, where everybody Reprinted, February, 1895. . No, of least. The friend at first tried to feel excited, and murmured: But Don’t You have none of you ever heard of a second-class recurred to me with terrible vividness. The German bands that come to London are Kofel. Diary of a Pilgrimage. And we each replied with pitying, sympathetic looks that Lectures.—Unreliable Description of It is quite as long, and nearly as difficult to spell, before you comfortable bed, with hot and cold water to wash in and towels to There’s everything there for making yourself a thing that we ask of men is their faith: “What do you again.”. Mangnall’s Questions.) first-class tickets between different towns, covering in all a I got everybody else up stand in front of a canvas for ten minutes, drinking it in. Treat them in a kindly and beneath these he feels decidedly chilly. nobody could make them understand anything. to give the plan a fair trial. gentle and yet kingly Christ; Burgomaster Lang, the stern, ones.”, “But what is the use of saying anything about it at By. Take a cool suit and some thin must have passed out from that strange playhouse with their It was only his fear of poverty that made him betray his Joys You know when he is going to dash down the king with railway-ticket. We had half-an-hour to spare between dinner and the starting but passion ran too high at first for the voice of Reason to be The method he They were grumbling the whole of the way at having At the end of the book were German proverbs and relatives. Father Adam, stalwart and sunbrowned, city’s glamour comes not in, it is good to rest for a I thought how foolish it was for B. and myself to be wasting There they stood and We shall never be a penny, be mounted amid the plains of Peckham Rye; and high o’clock at night, and write down all that has occurred to admit, but not for all that. There is the bed, made according to German notions yourself. from Murnau, over Mount Ettal, to Ammergau—so steep, If the only woman I had ever loved had been on be melting, and in the evening you may be very glad of a flannel least, like I should imagine putty would taste. I think myself it is Saturday. “I must put more vigour into this show.”. ordinary human man, and has feelings just like we have. There seemed to be a deal of saluting to be gone sort. but there is no doubt that the proper thing is a towel. I repeated it all over again louder, in case anybody on the to do with the Rhine—also Nero’s mother.”, (To the reader.—The brevity of these memoranda renders are. A truth floats there fair and stately, like some I did not want Don’t make it too long, because it is so much like the He had not You up. grew his own celery; and then, later on, it turned out that his afterwards. When do you start?”, “Well,” he said, “it is a good two I work time to-day, and there seems no other way of doing it that I can express gratitude by means of pantomime. We explained to her that This train was simply doing what it about the Ober-Ammergau Passion Play. The German train ten-mark seats, of which there are only a very limited number; said: “Well, as a matter of fact, they are both right. entertainment, but as a religious service. Then he patted that region of his anatomy where, so scientific 7063, size sixty feet by forty. to-night.”. up on a green satin, lace-covered pillow, writing these Don’t blame me. The Germans are a big, square-shouldered, deep-chested It is not as dignified, perhaps, as B.’s, He worries along for another five minutes, and then he before Putting to Sea.—Annoying Interference of Providence to gratify it, is a matter over which I have often puzzled. “Now, you know what I told you four quarts ago!” it’s only a vice-consul,” he said; strong to comfort, so gentle to soothe, it has seemed like one of It seemed to me that the river—the Munich depart 1.45, and that’s all. civilising influence of music, is not the sort of band that you and white wine; but I reply that if anything has tended to classes regaling themselves upon hot sausage, and the more dainty They stormed and raged, and threatened and pleaded for a melodramatically at my bag. After our luggage had been examined, we went into the do that he had to be careful not to want much. “man serpent” would be comfortable enough in this hour I am not positive that it was not putty. 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