"Now go with the friend of your family."
Frau Dournay and Manna walked towards the shady grove on the upper end of the island; and Heimchen, who was quite confiding towards the Professorin, went with them; but she was quite willing to sit down with a book, under a tree, and wait till they came back for her.
"But you must not take Manna away with you," cried the child from her low seat; they both started, for the child had given utterance, from an instinctive feeling, to the fear of one and the hope of the other.
CHAPTER IV.
THE IRON MUST ENTER THINE OWN SOUL.
For a long time neither uttered a word; at last the Professorin said,—
"You seem to be called to a higher life, from having been obliged in early youth to suffer so hard an experience, and to feel deeply the discord among men."
"I? How?" asked Manna. "What do you know?" She trembled.
"I know," answered the Professorin, "that you have suffered under that cruel burden which weighs upon your great and noble father-land."
"My father-land? I? Speak more plainly."