Flynn, Michael - Eifelheim by Flynn Michael

Author:Flynn, Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub

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He found her arranging some herbs for drying by the glass light in her window. These herbs, she had grown in clay pots set on the sill. She bobbed to him as he entered, but continued cutting.

“How goes it by you, daughter?” Dietrich said, and she answered, “Well,” and Dietrich searched for something to say that did not sound like an admonition.

“No one attended Mass today.” But that was an admonition, for Theresia had attended daily.

She did not look up. “Were they there?”

“Hans and Gottfried? No.”

“Fine new communicants you have admitted.”

Dietrich parted his lips to debate the point. After all, few ever attended the daily Mass. But he thought better of it and commented instead on the warming weather.

Theresia shrugged. “Frau Grundsau saw no shadow.”

“Herwyg says it will be another cold year.”

“Old One-eye feels the cold more each year.”

“Do… Do your herbs prosper?”

“Well enough.” She paused in her labor and looked up. “I pray for you each day, father.”

“And I for you.”

But Theresia only shook her head. “You baptized them.”

“They desired it.”

“It mocked the sacrament!”

Dietrich reached out and took her by the sleeve. “Who has been telling you such things?”

But Theresia pulled away from him and turned her back. “Please leave.”

“But, I – .”

“Please leave!”

Flynn: Eifelheim

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Dietrich sighed and turned to the door. He hestated a moment with his hand on the latch, but Theresia did not call him back, and there was nothing for it but to close the door behind him.

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