A brief note of my great-grandfather’s note
A. Shtifter
Notes of my great-grandfather The
hero, describing the old house that belonged to his great-grandfather, the village doctor, recalls: “The old utensils surrounded us with an indelible chronicle, and we children got used to it, like an old book with pictures, the key to which was possessed only grandfather, he, the only living biographer of the doctor, his father, “in the chest kept a lot of treasured things, the only purpose of which was there to be stored. Becoming a man, the hero returns to his native nest and finds in the attic an old leather-bound book familiar to him from childhood. This is a note by Dr. Augustine. The hero is immersed in reading.
The first entry is dated June 1739. After the refusal of the beloved to marry him, Augustine rushed into the forest and wanted to hang himself, but the old colonel, the girl’s father, sensing something was wrong, followed him and invited Augustine to talk. Two days later Augustine came
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Augustine came from a poor family. When he returned home after finishing his studies, the peasant father did not dare come and say hello to his learned son. Augustine began to treat the sick and gave it all his time and strength. Everyone in the district loved doctors for their kindness and unselfishness. He not only did not take the poor from the poor, but he also tried to help with money. He built a house next to his father’s hut and found a healing spring nearby. But soon the father and sisters of Augustine died, he was left alone and took to his house a sick teenager Gottlieb, the son of a poor peasant. Augustine bought horses to make it easier to get to the sick, and went to them in any weather. The winter turned out to be severe, but then suddenly it became warmer and everything became covered with ice crust. “Another bush produced the impression of shredded candles or light, watery gleaming corals. “Under the weight of the ice, the trees were bent and broken, blocking the way, and Augustine had to walk around on foot, the wind blew, a storm arose, several people were killed, crushed by fallen trees, but soon the storm subsided, and clear spring days came. thawed out, the colonel came to these places and began to build a house. For the first time, Augustine saw the colonel with his daughter in the church, and they liked him, and soon the opportunity to get to know each other became closer. Gustin loved Margarita with all her heart, and the girl answered him in kind, but one day a nephew Rudolf, a handsome and noble youth, came to stay with the colonel, and it seemed to Augustine that Margarita was not indifferent to him, Margarita was offended and did not disown Augustine, but refused to become his wife. Augustine wanted to hang himself, but, surprised by the Colonel, he changed his mind. For the last time he tried to persuade Margarita, but the girl was adamant. Then the colonel sent his daughter away from home to a distant relative, and Augustine continued to treat the sick in the whole district and kept records, from time to time meeting with the colonel and never talking to him about Margarita. The circle of his activities expanded, and life increasingly refuted the words that escaped from him in a difficult moment: “The lonely, exactly torn from the rope anchor, longs for the heart in my chest.” So three years passed. Once Augustine was invited to a shooting festival in Pirling. There he met the colonel, who informed him of Margarita’s arrival. For three years of absence Margarita realized that she was not right, the doctor also realized that he was to blame, and they reconciled, to the immeasurable joy of the colonel, who had long dreamed of seeing them as husband and wife. Augustine was already at thirty, and his heart was beating with joy, like an eighteen-year-old boy. Returning home, he opened the window and looked out: “there was the same silence, tranquility and festive splendor – from the innumerable silver stars swarming in the sky.”
On this the hero stops the narrative, for he has not yet analyzed the further records of the doctor. Augustine lived a long happy life and in his old age became like a colonel. At the end of his life, he re-read his notes and did new ones, which the hero hopes to publish later.
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