An Old Heart
Goes A-Journeying
Hans Fallada
Manufactured in the United States of America
Farmer Tamm gives good measure
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Contents
I.
| IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS IS VISITED BY AN ANGEL, AND SENT TO UNSADEL
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II.
| IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS SEES A FAT FARMER HANGING FROM A TREE, AND A GIRL CRYING UNDER A HEDGE
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III.
| IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS PAYS A CALL THAT ENDS IN A COALSHED
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IV.
| IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS ESCAPES FROM ONE DARKNESS BUT FALLS INTO A BLACKER ONE
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V.
| IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS RECEIVES A SECOND SUMMONS FROM THE ANGEL
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VI.
| IN WHICH EVERYTHING GOES WRONG, AND PROFESSOR KITTGUSS FLEES IN SECRET
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VII.
| IN WHICH ROSEMARIE SETS UP A COMPLETELY ILLEGAL HOUSEHOLD
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VIII.
| IN WHICH A COUNCIL IS HELD BY NIGHT, AND A STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED AGAINST THE SCHLIEKERS
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IX.
| IN WHICH THE ACCUSED BECOMES THE ACCUSER, AND PAUL SCHLIEKER MAKES A CATCH
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X.
| IN WHICH ROSEMARIE COMES INTO POSSESSION OF A LARGE SUM OF MONEY, AND OTSCHE RUNS FOR HIS LIFE
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XI.
| IN WHICH GAU SHOWS HIMSELF A STERN FATHER, AND SCHLIEKER AS SOMETHING WORSE THAN A CROOK
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XII.
| WHICH CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF THE YOUTH, THE RISE, AND THE VICISSITUDES OF THE SCHLIEKERS
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XIII.
| IN WHICH DR. GEORGE KIMMKNIRSCH ACQUIRES SOME PATIENTS AND BECOMES INVOLVED IN A CONSPIRACY
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XIV.
| IN WHICH MANY PEOPLE GO IN SEARCH OF MANY THINGS AND THE WRONG PEOPLE FIND THE WRONG THINGS
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XV.
| IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS SETS OUT IN SEARCH OF HIS GODCHILD AND WHAT HE ENCOUNTERED ON THE WAY
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XVI.
| IN WHICH ROSEMARIE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO OBEY MAGISTRATE SCHULZ, BUT DR. KIMMKNIRSCH DOES HIS BEST
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XVII.
| IN WHICH A RUNAWAY CHILD GOES HOME, BUT DOES NOT STAY THERE
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XVIII.
| IN WHICH BOTH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS AND ROSEMARIE EACH ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT RUNS AWAY
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XIX.
| IN WHICH THE PROFESSOR TRAVELS WITH EMPTY POCKETS TO BERLIN TO SEE ABOUT SOME MONEY
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XX.
| IN WHICH ROSEMARIE LOSES ALL HER FRIENDS
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XXI.
| IN WHICH EVERYTHING GOES WRONG AND DR. KIMMKNIRSCH TAKES TO DRINK
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XXII.
| IN WHICH PROFESSOR KITTGUSS MAKES FRAU MÜLLER ANXIOUS AND THE HORIZON REDDENS
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XXIII.
| IN WHICH ROSEMARIE THÜRKE FIGHTS HER BATTLE ALONE
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XXIV.
| IN WHICH THERE IS EATING, DRINKING, AND DANCING; BUT TWO PERSONS STAND ASIDE
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Chapter One
In which Professor Kittguss is visited by an angel, and sent to Unsadel
O
NCE UPON A TIME
there was an old Professor, named Gotthold Kittguss, who had neither wife nor child. Until he was fifty years old he had been a master in a large school in Berlin, where he taught the Christian Evangelical religion. He also instructed the junior classes in Latin and Greek; and with such of the seniors as intended to take orders later on he read the New Testament in the original Greek, and taught them the rudiments of Hebrew.
His twenty-five years of teaching had left him with an abiding love for the younger generation; but he was not content to teach the mere text of Holy Writ, he did his best to inculcate the spirit of the sacred writings. He had often expounded the New Testament, including the Revelation of St. John the Divine to his boys, but never ventured on any interpretation of that book, though it interested him more than all the others.
A day, however, came, as he records in his diary, when
“God caused a light to shine upon me, and the gates to the temple of Revelation were thrown open. No limit in time had indeed been prescribed for the glory of the fulfilled Kingdom of God, but perhaps a limit had been set to the tribulation that was to precede and lead the way to it. I set this presumption clearly and firmly before my mind and grew so absorbed in it that I was no longer able to pursue my teaching work. . . .”
