Lorley and Reinhard Author:Berthold Auerbach General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Holt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. That Was A Sunday Life. THE next morning found the Collaborator bright and early at Reinhard's bedside, where he stood singing, with a well-trained and powerful voice, such as one would hardly have given him credit for, to Weber's dew-dripping melody, the song from Preciosa: " The Sun Awakes." Reinhard tossed about in the bed with a growl. " A man like thee," sang the Collaborator in recitative, " a man who has drawn -- that glorious picture of Sunday dawn, -- must not be allowed to slumber away -- such a morning as this, I say -- I say -- boom -- boom -- boom !" Reinhard was silent and the Collaborator went on talking: "What are we going about to-day? It is Sunday morning, it rained last night, as if we had bespoken it; out of doors everything glistens and flashes. What shall we carry on now ? Is there no church-fair in the neighborhood ? No people's-festival ?" " Cook up a people's-festival for thyself," replied Reinhard, " drum the masses together, as many as thou needest, and saddle thy nose with an opera-glass; fling money among the children till they tear one another's hair and turn somersaults over each other, and then thou wilt have a people's festival with an ipse fecit." " Thou wast so gay last evening, and to-day so glum." " I was not gay and I am not glum I am only a fellow who ought properly lo be alone, and whose confounded luck it is not to be able to be alone a single day. Understand in what sense I mean this. I like it, when thou art with me; a friend like thee, so well-meaning and sincere, is as when one has money in his desk ; even if on...« less