always in the company of a third person. I thought very little of Lucy and her whole tribe, but nevertheless lent always, after our meals, a patient ear to the Count's amorous complaints, laughing inwardly at my friend, that he was such a fool to fall thus violently in love.
As for our sociable life, it was regulated in the following manner: In the week every one was hard at work; for our hamlet was poor, and the inhabitants lived upon the scanty produce of their agriculture, pasturage, vintage, and the making of wooden spoons. The time lying very heavy upon my hands for want of society, I employed my idle hours in the fabrication of the latter article, and improved so rapidly, that I soon was famed in the whole hamlet for making the finest wooden spoons. I had learned, in Germany, to make baskets, and now exercised that art also in great perfection. When I was sitting in the yard bending osiers, then it grew frequently lighter in my soul than atany
