# Heidi by Johanna Spyri – Chapter 8

An episode of [Heidi by Johanna Spyri](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1896859638), 1 Jun 2026, 24 min.

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## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Chapter eight, There is great commotion in the large house.
[0:07] Speaker 1: Sebastian had just shown the tutor into the study on
[0:10] Speaker 1: the following morning, when there came another and very loud
[0:14] Speaker 1: ring at the bell, which Sebastian quickly ran to answer.
[0:19] Speaker 1: Only rsesmon rings like that, he said to himself, he
[0:24] Speaker 1: must have returned home. Unexpectedly. He pulled open the door,
[0:28] Speaker 1: and there in front of him he saw a ragged
[0:31] Speaker 1: little boy carrying a hand organ on his back. What's
[0:35] Speaker 1: the meaning of this, said Sebastian angrily. I'll teach you
[0:39] Speaker 1: to ring bells like that. What do you want here?
[0:42] Speaker 1: I want to see Clara. The boy answered, you dirty,
[0:47] Speaker 1: good for nothing little rascal. Can't you be polite enough
[0:50] Speaker 1: to say, miss Clara, what do you want with her?
[0:54] Speaker 1: Continued Sebastian. Roughly She owes me fourpence, explained the boy.
[1:00] Speaker 1: You must be out of your mind. And how do
[1:02] Speaker 1: you know that any young lady of that name lives here?
[1:06] Speaker 1: She owes me Tuppens for showing her the way there,
[1:08] Speaker 1: and Tuppens for showing her the way back. See what
[1:12] Speaker 1: a pack of lies you are telling. The young lady
[1:15] Speaker 1: never goes out, cannot even walk be off and get
[1:18] Speaker 1: back to where you came from before. I have to
[1:20] Speaker 1: help you along. But the boy was not to be
[1:23] Speaker 1: frightened away. He remained standing and said, in a determined voice,
[1:29] Speaker 1: but I saw her in the street and can describe
[1:32] Speaker 1: her to you. She has short, curly black hair and
[1:35] Speaker 1: black eyes, and wears a brown dress, and does not
[1:39] Speaker 1: talk quite like we do. Oh, thought Sebastian, laughing to himself,
[1:46] Speaker 1: the little miss has evidently been up to more mischief. Then,
[1:51] Speaker 1: drawing the boy inside, he said aloud, I understand. Now
[1:55] Speaker 1: come with me and wait outside the door till I
[1:57] Speaker 1: tell you to go in. Be sure you begin playing
[2:00] Speaker 1: your organ the instant you get inside the room. The
[2:04] Speaker 1: lady is very fond of music. Sebastian knocked at the
[2:08] Speaker 1: study door, and a voice said, come in. There is
[2:14] Speaker 1: a boy outside who says he must speak to Miss
[2:16] Speaker 1: Clara herself, Sebastian announced. Clara was delighted at such an
[2:22] Speaker 1: extraordinary and unexpected message. Let him come in at once,
[2:27] Speaker 1: replied Clara. He must come in, must he not, she added,
[2:32] Speaker 1: turning to her tutor, if he wishes so particularly to
[2:35] Speaker 1: see me. The boy was already inside the room, and
[2:40] Speaker 1: according to Sebastian's directions immediately began to play his organ.
[2:45] Speaker 1: Fuline Rottenmeier, wishing to escape the abc, had retired with
[2:50] Speaker 1: her work to the dining room. All at once, she
[2:53] Speaker 1: stopped and listened. Did those sounds come up from the street,
[2:58] Speaker 1: and yet they seem so near? But how could there
[3:01] Speaker 1: be an organ playing in the study? And yet it
[3:04] Speaker 1: surely was. So. She rushed to the other end of
[3:09] Speaker 1: the long dining room and tore open the door. She
[3:12] Speaker 1: could hardly believe her eyes. There in the middle of
[3:16] Speaker 1: the study stood a ragged boy, turning away at his
[3:19] Speaker 1: organ in the most energetic manner. The tutor appeared to
[3:24] Speaker 1: be making efforts to speak, but his voice could not
[3:26] Speaker 1: be heard. Both children were listening delightedly to the music.
[3:32] Speaker 1: Leave Off, leave Off. At once, screamed Froulin Rottenmeier, but
[3:37] Speaker 1: her voice was drowned by the music. She was making
[3:40] Speaker 1: a dash for the boy when she saw something on
[3:43] Speaker 1: the ground crawling towards her feet, a dreadful, dark object,
[3:47] Speaker 1: a tortoise. At this sight, she jumped higher than she
[3:52] Speaker 1: had for many long years before, shrieking with all her might.
[3:56] Speaker 1: Sebastian Sebastian the organ play. There suddenly stopped. For this
[4:01] Speaker 1: time her voice had risen louder than the music. Sebastian
[4:05] Speaker 1: was standing outside, bent double with laughter, for he had
[4:09] Speaker 1: been peeping to see what was going on. By the
[4:13] Speaker 1: time he entered the room, for Lin Rottenemayer had sunk
[4:16] Speaker 1: into a chair. Take them all out, boy and animal,
[4:20] Speaker 1: get them away at once, she commanded him. Sebastian pulled
[4:24] Speaker 1: the boy away, the latter having quickly caught up the tortoise,
[4:28] Speaker 1: and when he had got him outside, he put something
[4:31] Speaker 1: into his hand. There is the fourpence from Miss Clara,
[4:35] Speaker 1: and another fourpence for the music. You did it all
[4:38] Speaker 1: quite right, And with that he shut the front door
[4:42] Speaker 1: upon him. Quietness reigned again in the study, and lessons
[4:48] Speaker 1: began once more. Forilin Rottenmeyer now took up her station
[4:52] Speaker 1: in the study in order by her presence to prevent
[4:54] Speaker 1: any further dreadful goings on. But soon another knock came
[5:00] Speaker 1: to the door, and Sebastian again stepped in, this time
[5:04] Speaker 1: to say that some one had brought a large basket,
[5:07] Speaker 1: with orders that it was to be given at once
[5:10] Speaker 1: to Miss Clara. For me, said Clara, in astonishment, her
[5:16] Speaker 1: curiosity very much excited. Bring it in at once, that
[5:20] Speaker 1: I may see what it is like. Sebastian carried in
[5:24] Speaker 1: a large covered basket and retired. I think the lessons
[5:29] Speaker 1: had better be finished first before the basket is unpacked,
[5:33] Speaker 1: said fraeulein Rondemeier. Clara could not conceive what was in it,
[5:38] Speaker 1: and cast longing glances towards it. In the middle of
[5:42] Speaker 1: one of her declensions, she suddenly broke off and said
[5:45] Speaker 1: to the tutor, mayn't I just give one peep inside
[5:50] Speaker 1: to see what is in it before I go on
[5:53] Speaker 1: on some considerations, I am for it, on others against it.
[5:58] Speaker 1: He began in answer for it, on the ground that
[6:02] Speaker 1: if your whole attention is directed to the basket. But
[6:06] Speaker 1: the speech remained unfinished. The cover of the basket was loose,
[6:10] Speaker 1: and at this moment one, two, three, and then two
[6:14] Speaker 1: more and again more kittens came suddenly, tumbling on to
[6:18] Speaker 1: the floor and racing about the room in every direction,
[6:22] Speaker 1: and with such indescribable rapidity that it seemed as if
[6:25] Speaker 1: the whole room was full of them. They jumped over
[6:29] Speaker 1: the tutor's boots, bit at his trousers, climbed up for
[6:32] Speaker 1: Laine Hottenmeier's dress rolled about her feet sprang up on
[6:36] Speaker 1: too Clara's couch, scratching, scrambling, and mewing. It was a
[6:41] Speaker 1: sad scene of confusion. Clara, meanwhile, pleased with their gambols,
[6:47] Speaker 1: kept on exclaiming, Oh, the dear little things, how pretty
[6:51] Speaker 1: they are. Look, Heidi at this one, Look look at
[6:54] Speaker 1: that one over there. And Heidy, in her delight, kept
[6:58] Speaker 1: running after them, first into one corner and then into
[7:01] Speaker 1: the other. The tutor stood up by the table, not
[7:05] Speaker 1: knowing what to do, lifting first his right foot and
[7:08] Speaker 1: then his left to get it away from the scrambling,
[7:11] Speaker 1: scratching kittens. Fraeulein Rottenmeyer was unable at first to speak
[7:16] Speaker 1: at all, so overcome was she with horror, and she
[7:20] Speaker 1: did not dare arise from her chair for fear that
[7:22] Speaker 1: all the dreadful little animals should jump upon her at once.
[7:27] Speaker 1: At last she found voice to call loudly, Tinnette, Tinette, Sebastian, Sebastian.
[7:35] Speaker 1: They came in answer to her summons and gathered up
[7:38] Speaker 1: the kittens by degrees. They got them all inside the
[7:41] Speaker 1: basket again, and then carried them off to put with
[7:44] Speaker 1: the other two to day again. There had been no
[7:49] Speaker 1: opportunity for yawning. Late that evening, when Fheulein Rottenmaier had
[7:54] Speaker 1: somewhat recovered from the excitement of the morning, she sent
[7:58] Speaker 1: for the two servants and examined them closely concerning the
[8:02] Speaker 1: events of the morning. And then it came out that
[8:06] Speaker 1: Heide was at the bottom of them, everything being the
[8:09] Speaker 1: result of her excursion of the day before. Forelin Whattemeier
[8:14] Speaker 1: sat pale with indignation and did not know at first
[8:17] Speaker 1: how to express her anger. Then she made a sign
[8:21] Speaker 1: to Tinette and Sebastian to withdraw, and, turning to Haidee,
[8:26] Speaker 1: who was standing by Clara's couch, quite unable to understand
[8:30] Speaker 1: of what sin she had been guilty, began in a
[8:33] Speaker 1: severe voice, adelaide, I know of only one punishment which
[8:39] Speaker 1: will perhaps make you alive to your ill conduct, for
[8:42] Speaker 1: you are an utter little barbarian. But we will see
[8:46] Speaker 1: if we cannot tame you so that you shall not
[8:48] Speaker 1: be guilty of such deeds again, by putting you in
[8:51] Speaker 1: a dark cellar with the rats and black beetles. Heide
[8:56] Speaker 1: listened in silence and surprise to her sentence, for she
[9:00] Speaker 1: had never seen the cellar such as was now described.
[9:03] Speaker 1: The place known at her grandfather's as the cellar where
[9:07] Speaker 1: the fresh made cheeses and the new milk were kept,
[9:10] Speaker 1: was a pleasant and inviting place. Neither did she know
[9:14] Speaker 1: at all what rats and black beetles were like. But
[9:18] Speaker 1: now Clara interrupted, in great distress. No, no, froelin Wrottenmeier,
[9:23] Speaker 1: you must wait till Papa comes. He has written to
[9:25] Speaker 1: say that he will soon be home, and then I
[9:28] Speaker 1: will tell him everything and he will say what is
[9:31] Speaker 1: to be done with Heidi Fraulein Rottenmeire could not do
[9:36] Speaker 1: anything against this superior authority, especially as the father was
[9:40] Speaker 1: really expected very shortly. She rose and said, with some displeasure,
[9:46] Speaker 1: as you will, Clara, but I too shall have something
[9:49] Speaker 1: to say to her sesemon, and with that she left
[9:53] Speaker 1: the room. Two days now went by without further disturbance.
[9:59] Speaker 1: For Rottemmeier, however, could not recover her equanimity. She was
[10:04] Speaker 1: perpetually reminded by Hidie's presence of the deception that had
[10:08] Speaker 1: been played upon her, and it seemed to her that
[10:11] Speaker 1: ever since the child had come into the house, everything
[10:14] Speaker 1: had been topsy turvy, and she could not bring things
[10:17] Speaker 1: into proper order. Again, Clara had grown much more cheerful.
[10:23] Speaker 1: She no longer found time hang heavy during the lesson hours,
[10:27] Speaker 1: for Heidi was continually making a diversion of some kind
[10:30] Speaker 1: or other. She jumbled all her letters up together and
[10:34] Speaker 1: seemed quite unable to learn them. And when the tutor
[10:38] Speaker 1: tried to draw her attention to their different shapes and
[10:41] Speaker 1: to help her by showing her that this was like
[10:44] Speaker 1: a little horn, or that like a bird's bill, she
[10:48] Speaker 1: would suddenly exclaim in a joyful voice, that is a goat.
[10:52] Speaker 1: That is a bird of prey. For the tutor's descriptions
[10:56] Speaker 1: suggested all kinds of pictures to her mind, but left
[10:59] Speaker 1: her still incapable of the alphabet. In the later afternoons,
[11:04] Speaker 1: Hidee always sat with Clara, and then she would give
[11:08] Speaker 1: the latter many and long descriptions of the mountain and
[11:11] Speaker 1: of her life upon it, and the burning longing to
[11:15] Speaker 1: return would become so overpowering that she always finished with
[11:19] Speaker 1: the words, now, I must go home tomorrow, I must
[11:23] Speaker 1: really go. But Clara would try to quiet her and
[11:28] Speaker 1: tell hide that she must wait till her father returned,
[11:32] Speaker 1: and then they would see what was to be done,
[11:35] Speaker 1: and if hide gave in each time, and seemed quickly
[11:39] Speaker 1: to regain her good spirits. It was because of a
[11:42] Speaker 1: secret delight she had in the thought that every day
[11:45] Speaker 1: added two more white rolls to the number she was
[11:48] Speaker 1: collecting for Grandmother, for she always pocketed the roll placed
[11:53] Speaker 1: beside her plate at dinner and supper, feeling that she
[11:56] Speaker 1: could not bear to eat them, knowing that Grandmother had
[11:59] Speaker 1: no white bread and could hardly eat the black bread
[12:02] Speaker 1: which was so hard. After dinner, Heidi had to sit
[12:07] Speaker 1: alone in her room for a couple of hours, for
[12:10] Speaker 1: she understood now that she might not run about outside
[12:13] Speaker 1: at Frankfort as she did on the mountain, and so
[12:16] Speaker 1: she did not attempt it. Any conversation with Sebastian in
[12:21] Speaker 1: the dining room was also forbidden her, and as to Tinette,
[12:25] Speaker 1: she kept out of her way and never thought of
[12:27] Speaker 1: speaking to her, for Heidie was quite aware that the
[12:30] Speaker 1: maid looked scornfully at her and always spoke to her
[12:34] Speaker 1: in a mocking voice. So Heidie had plenty of time
[12:39] Speaker 1: from day to day to sit and picture how everything
[12:42] Speaker 1: at home was now turning green, and how the yellow
[12:45] Speaker 1: flowers were shining in the sun, and how all around
[12:49] Speaker 1: lay bright in the warm sunshine, the snow, and the
[12:52] Speaker 1: rocks and the whole wide valley, and Haidee at times
[12:57] Speaker 1: could hardly contain herself for the longing to be back
[13:00] Speaker 1: home again. And Data had told her that she could
[13:05] Speaker 1: go home whenever she liked. So it came about one
[13:08] Speaker 1: day that Heidee felt she could not bear it any longer,
[13:12] Speaker 1: and in haste she tied all the rolls up in
[13:15] Speaker 1: her red shawl, put on her straw hat, and went downstairs.
[13:19] Speaker 1: But just as she reached the hall door, she met
[13:22] Speaker 1: Foreulein Rottenmeier, herself just returning from a walk, which put
[13:27] Speaker 1: a stop to Hyde's journey. Forelein Rottenmeyer stood still a moment,
[13:33] Speaker 1: looking at her from top to toe in blank astonishment,
[13:36] Speaker 1: her eye resting particularly on the red bundle. Then she
[13:41] Speaker 1: broke out, what have you dressed yourself like that? For?
[13:45] Speaker 1: What do you mean by this? Have I not strictly
[13:48] Speaker 1: forbidden you to go running about in the streets and
[13:51] Speaker 1: here you are ready to start off again and going
[13:54] Speaker 1: out looking like a beggar. I was not going to
[13:57] Speaker 1: run about. I was going home, said heide frightened. What
[14:02] Speaker 1: are you talking about going home? You want to go home,
[14:07] Speaker 1: exclaimed fraeulein Rottenmeier, her anger rising to run away like that?
[14:13] Speaker 1: What would her seesemon say if he knew? Take care
[14:16] Speaker 1: that he never hears of this? And what is the
[14:19] Speaker 1: matter with his house? I should like to know? Have
[14:22] Speaker 1: you not been better treated than you deserved? Have you
[14:24] Speaker 1: wanted for a thing? Have you ever in your life
[14:28] Speaker 1: before had such a house to live in, such a table,
[14:31] Speaker 1: or so many to wait upon you? Have you? No,
[14:36] Speaker 1: replied Haidee. I should think not, indeed, continued the exasperated lady.
[14:43] Speaker 1: You have everything you can possibly want here, and you
[14:45] Speaker 1: are an ungrateful little thing. It's because you are too
[14:49] Speaker 1: well off and comfortable that you have nothing to do
[14:51] Speaker 1: but think what naughty thing you can do next. Then
[14:56] Speaker 1: Haidee's feelings got the better of her, and she poured
[15:00] Speaker 1: for her trouble. Indeed, I only want to go home,
[15:04] Speaker 1: for if I stay so long away, schnee Hopey will
[15:07] Speaker 1: begin crying again, and grandmother is waiting for me, and
[15:11] Speaker 1: to still think will get beaten because I am not
[15:13] Speaker 1: there to give Peter any cheese. And I can never
[15:16] Speaker 1: see how the sun says good night to the mountains.
[15:19] Speaker 1: And if the great bird were to fly over Frankfort
[15:22] Speaker 1: he would croak louder than ever about people huddling altogether
[15:25] Speaker 1: and teaching each other bad things, and not going to
[15:28] Speaker 1: live up on the rocks where it is so much better. Heaven,
[15:33] Speaker 1: have mercy on us. The child is out of her mind,
[15:36] Speaker 1: cried fraeulein Rottenmeier. And she turned in terror and went
[15:40] Speaker 1: quickly up the steps, running violently against Sebastian in her Hurry,
[15:46] Speaker 1: go and bring that unhappy little creature in at once,
[15:49] Speaker 1: she ordered him, putting her hand to her forehead, which
[15:52] Speaker 1: she had bumped against his. Sebastian did as he was told,
[15:57] Speaker 1: rubbing his own head as he went, for he had
[16:00] Speaker 1: received a still harder blow. Hide had not moved. She
[16:05] Speaker 1: stood with her eyes aflame and trembling all over with
[16:09] Speaker 1: inward agitation. What got into trouble again, said Sebastian in
[16:15] Speaker 1: a cheerful voice. But when he looked more closely at
[16:18] Speaker 1: heide and saw that she did not move, he put
[16:21] Speaker 1: his hand kindly on her shoulder and said, trying to
[16:24] Speaker 1: comfort her. There there, don't take it to heart so much.
[16:29] Speaker 1: Keep up your spirits, that is the great thing. She
[16:32] Speaker 1: has nearly made a hole in my head. But don't
[16:34] Speaker 1: let her bully you. Then, seeing that Hide still did
[16:39] Speaker 1: not stir, we must go. She ordered me to take
[16:42] Speaker 1: you in. Hide now began mounting the stairs, but with
[16:47] Speaker 1: a slow crawling step, very unlike her usual manner. Sebastian
[16:54] Speaker 1: felt quite sad as he watched her, and as he
[16:57] Speaker 1: followed her up, he kept trying to encourage her. Don't
[17:01] Speaker 1: you give in. Don't let her make you unhappy. You
[17:04] Speaker 1: keep up your courage. Why we've got such a sensible
[17:07] Speaker 1: little miss that she has never cried once since she
[17:10] Speaker 1: was here. Many at that age cry a good dozen
[17:13] Speaker 1: times a day. The kittens are enjoying themselves very much
[17:17] Speaker 1: up in their home. They jump about all over the
[17:20] Speaker 1: place and behave as if they were little mad things.
[17:23] Speaker 1: Shall we go up and see them? When Forelein is
[17:26] Speaker 1: out of the way, shall we? Heide gave a little
[17:29] Speaker 1: nod of assent, but in such a joyless manner that
[17:32] Speaker 1: it went to Sebastian's heart, and he followed her with
[17:35] Speaker 1: sympathetic eyes as she crept away to her room. At
[17:40] Speaker 1: supper that evening, Foreulein Rottenmeier did not speak, but she
[17:44] Speaker 1: cast watchful looks towards Heidie, as if expecting her at
[17:48] Speaker 1: any minute to break out in some extraordinary way. But
[17:52] Speaker 1: Hide sat without moving or eating. All that she did
[17:56] Speaker 1: was to hastily hide her roll in her pocket. When
[18:00] Speaker 1: the tutor arrived next morning, Feulein Rottemmeier drew him privately
[18:05] Speaker 1: aside and confided her fear to him that the change
[18:08] Speaker 1: of air and the new mode of life and unaccustomed
[18:11] Speaker 1: surroundings had turned Hide's head. Then she told him of
[18:15] Speaker 1: the incident of the day before and of Heide's strange speech.
[18:20] Speaker 1: But the tutor assured her she need not be in alarm.
[18:24] Speaker 1: He had already become aware that the child was somewhat eccentric,
[18:28] Speaker 1: but otherwise quite right in her mind, and he was
[18:31] Speaker 1: sure that with careful treatment and education, the right balance
[18:35] Speaker 1: would be restored. And it was this he was striving after.
[18:40] Speaker 1: He was the more convinced of this by what he
[18:42] Speaker 1: now heard and by the fact that he had so
[18:45] Speaker 1: far failed to teach her the alphabet. Haide, seeming unable
[18:50] Speaker 1: to understand the letters. Feulein Rottenmeier was considerably relieved by
[18:55] Speaker 1: his words, and released the tutor to his work. In
[19:00] Speaker 1: the course of the afternoon, the remembrance of Heidie's appearance
[19:03] Speaker 1: the day before, as she was starting out on her
[19:05] Speaker 1: travels suddenly returned to the lady, and she made up
[19:09] Speaker 1: her mind that she would supplement the child's clothing with
[19:12] Speaker 1: various garments from Clara's wardrobe, so as to give her
[19:16] Speaker 1: a decent appearance. When her sesemon returned. She confided her
[19:21] Speaker 1: intention to Clara, who was quite willing to make over
[19:24] Speaker 1: any number of dresses and hats to Heidie. So the
[19:27] Speaker 1: lady went upstairs to overhaul the child's belongings and see
[19:31] Speaker 1: what was to be kept and what thrown away. She returned, however,
[19:36] Speaker 1: in the course of a few minutes, with an expression
[19:38] Speaker 1: of horror upon her face. What is this Atdelhyde that
[19:43] Speaker 1: I find in your wardrobe? She exclaimed, I never heard
[19:47] Speaker 1: of any one doing such a thing before. In a
[19:50] Speaker 1: cupboard meant for clothes Atdelhyde, what do I see at
[19:54] Speaker 1: the bottom but a heap of rolls? Will you believe it? Clara?
[19:58] Speaker 1: Bread in a wardrobe, a whole pile of bread. Tinnette,
[20:03] Speaker 1: She called to that young woman who was in the
[20:05] Speaker 1: dining room, go upstairs and take away all those rolls
[20:09] Speaker 1: out of Adelaide's cupboard, and the old straw hat on
[20:12] Speaker 1: the table no, no, screamed Heidi, I must keep the
[20:18] Speaker 1: hat and the rolls are for grandmother. And she was
[20:22] Speaker 1: rushing to stop Tinnette when Fraeulin Rottenmeier took hold of her.
[20:27] Speaker 1: You will stop here, and all that bread and rubbish
[20:30] Speaker 1: shall be taken to the place they belonged to, she
[20:33] Speaker 1: said in a determined tone, as she kept her hand
[20:36] Speaker 1: on the child to prevent her running forward. Then Hide,
[20:41] Speaker 1: in despair, flung herself down on Clara's couch and broke
[20:45] Speaker 1: into a wild fit of weeping, her crying becoming louder
[20:50] Speaker 1: and more full of distress every minute while she kept
[20:53] Speaker 1: on sobbing out at intervals. Now the grandmother's bread is
[20:57] Speaker 1: all gone. They were all for grande and now they
[21:01] Speaker 1: are taken away, and grandmother won't have one. And she
[21:06] Speaker 1: wept as if her heart would break. Fraeulin Rottenmeayer ran
[21:10] Speaker 1: out of the room. Clara was distressed and alarmed at
[21:14] Speaker 1: the child's crying. Hide Heidi, she said, imploringly, pray, do
[21:20] Speaker 1: not cry, so listen to me. Don't be so unhappy.
[21:24] Speaker 1: Look now, I promise you that you shall have just
[21:27] Speaker 1: as many rolls or more, all fresh and new, to
[21:31] Speaker 1: take to grandmother, when you go home, yours would have
[21:35] Speaker 1: been hard and stale by then. Come, Heidy, do not
[21:38] Speaker 1: cry any more. Heidi could not get over her sobs
[21:42] Speaker 1: for a long time. She would never have been able
[21:45] Speaker 1: to leave off crying at all if it had not
[21:48] Speaker 1: been for Clara's promise, which comforted her. But to make
[21:53] Speaker 1: sure that she could depend upon it, she kept saying
[21:56] Speaker 1: to Clara, her voice broken, with her gradually subsiding sobs.
[22:02] Speaker 1: Will you give me as many, quite as many as
[22:04] Speaker 1: I had for grandmother? And Clara assured her each time
[22:10] Speaker 1: that she would give her as many or more. She added,
[22:14] Speaker 1: only be happy again. Heidie appeared at supper with her
[22:19] Speaker 1: eyes red with weeping, and when she saw her roll,
[22:23] Speaker 1: she could not suppress a sob, but she made an
[22:26] Speaker 1: effort to control herself, for she knew she must sit
[22:30] Speaker 1: quietly at table. Whenever a Sebastian could catch her eye.
[22:34] Speaker 1: This evening, he made all sorts of strange signs, pointing
[22:38] Speaker 1: to his own head and then to hers, and giving
[22:41] Speaker 1: little nods, as much as to say, don't you be unhappy.
[22:45] Speaker 1: I have got it all safe for you. When Heidi
[22:49] Speaker 1: was going to get into bed that night, she found
[22:52] Speaker 1: her old straw hat lying under the counterpane. She snatched
[22:57] Speaker 1: it up with delight, made it more out of shapes
[23:00] Speaker 1: in her joy, and then, after wrapping a handkerchief round it,
[23:04] Speaker 1: she stuck it in a corner of the cupboard as
[23:06] Speaker 1: far back as she could. It was Sebastian who had
[23:10] Speaker 1: hidden it there for her. He had been in the
[23:13] Speaker 1: dining room when Tinette was called and had heard all
[23:16] Speaker 1: that went on with the child and the latter's loud weeping.
[23:21] Speaker 1: So he followed Tinnette, and when she came out of
[23:23] Speaker 1: Heide's room carrying the rolls and the hat, he caught
[23:27] Speaker 1: up the hat and said, I will see to this
[23:30] Speaker 1: old thing. He was genuinely glad to have been able
[23:34] Speaker 1: to save it for Heidi, and that was the meaning
[23:37] Speaker 1: of his encouraging signs to her at supper end of
[23:42] Speaker 1: chapter eight

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