This Month's Installment
What's italicized is what I'm unsure about.
But I say to myself: only while we at that time in the quiet of peacetime cared for the spiritual things, while we with earnest zeal planted moral and religious strengths in the souls, we made our people strong in order to lift ourselves now to such a unanimous magnificence that we give strength to the one staying behind to build the places of culture and of love in the midst of a destructive war."---196---He remained standing, as if he expected that she would finally say something to him, only one word to break the ice that lay between them. She raised her head from the ground; a faint wince ran over her lips. But she stayed silent; the released word did not fall.They had continued on the way and reached their destination. Edith disappeared into the interior of the large parish hall, and he trod the path to the city military hospital. But his thoughts were with her and with that which they had just spoken with one an-other.There is something in her that is not to be broken, he said to himself, a pride or perhaps a reserve that will never concede that she is wrong. Even all her suffering and the difficult time change nothing about it. What actually changes a person!? - Thus we will probably disperse ourselves into all eternity!Full and warm lay the sun of the later summer over the Pronitter parish garden. She spread her beaming hands over the paths and lawns; she broke through with attractive seeking in every thicket, on every patch; she played with golden lights on every tree trunk there, sat pleasantly on every full, dark leaf, took the weary ones gliding to earth in her soft arms, and sunned the dying yet with their brilliance; she filled everything with peace and with pleasure. It was as if there in the great, wide world, there was nothing else but light and brightness, as if the heavy war, which played out here in the nearest vicinity, was only a pressing dream out of which one was now awakened to a new, beautiful day.
This is the end of chapter thirty-five and the beginning of chapter thirty-six.
