This Month's Installment
As always, the italicized parts are what I'm unsure about:The aimless helping and giving have no purpose, one never meets the right thing. I was at Stoltzmann's yester-day. He wants to make sure that we receive a deaconess for the congregation; his wife even promised me her entry into our board of management."
"See, see, Frau Lisa as carer for the poor and the sick! There you really have a success to record."
She mentioned the names of two other ladies who had likewise [sich bereitgefunden]. "But there are still some missing," she added. "I was thinking of Edith."
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"Of Miss von Barrnhoff?" he askt with some astonishment. "She will not want to; that is nothing for her."
"Why not?"
"You and Fritz want to get to know her better. But I find there is something in her - I don't want to call it arrogance, but something negative, something excluding herself from this type of public activity."
"It would depend on the test. You always said that you have to make your visit to the old gentleman; you could take this opportunity to speak with her."
He thought a moment. "Good," he said then, "I will go to her to-morrow."
Edith had just returned home with her father from the doctor when Hans Warsow was announced to her.
The old Reckenstein citizen was considerably better. The treatment had done wonders. But he still couldn't get used to the city and its peculiar customs. And because he had visits only in the afternoons and in the evening, he grumbled about this pointless disturbance of his peace, which was prescribed for him before dinner.
"I'm not putting in an appearance; you speak with him if it must be. But make it short!"
Grammatical Minuta
It might just be my translation, but "the aimless helping and giving have no purpose" is redundant, just like the things it's describing. I changed the number of the verb there, too. The original is a singular verb but with a plural subject: "Das planlose Helfen und Geben hat keinen Zweck."Just an additional note: I finished chapter eight. "Edith had just returned home..." is the beginning of chapter nine.
