Master Bieland and His Workmen Author:Berthold Auerbach General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 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. former noontide stillness reigned in the station ; the station-master went back into the garden and continued reading the news- . papers. The porters in the large baggage-room laid aside their leather aprons and sought resting places on chests and bales. A freight-wagon now rattled into the freshly- sanded courtyard. The porters sullenly rose and helped unload it. " Herr Bieland will bring the bills of lading," said the driver. " Very well," replied the baggage-master, and turning to his subordinate, continued; "there's a box that isn't marked at all, keep it separate." "Yes," said the other "it's surprising how the man has risen in the world; how long ago is it since he was only a shoemaker, and now he's one of the largest manufacturers." " But we must say that he isn't nrm, d.' "His daughter, our station-master's wife, is all the more haughty; she scarcely answers a civil greeting, stuck-up thing !" A man of respectable appearance, with a long, lank figure and smooth-shaven face, wearing a narrow-brimmed felt hat on his gray hair, was approaching the station from the city. Before him ran a white Spitz dog, that hastily commenced a vehement dialogue with a brown terrier behind the garden-fence, which he continued till his master whistled. "Welcome, father-in-law!" called the station-master from the arbor. " Will you come into the garden ? " "Yes!" "Shall I call Amalie down?" " No, not until later. I have some business matters to discuss with you, which must be kept entirely to ourselves; no one else in the city is to know anything about it. Your promis...« less