Though This Was Only An Ordinary Village, And They Certainly Did Not
Take Me For A Person Of Consequence, They Yet Gave Me A Carpeted
Bedroom, And A Very Good Bed.
The next morning I put on clean linen, which I had along with me,
and dressed myself as well as I could.
And now, when I thus made my
appearance, they did not, as they had the evening before, show me
into the kitchen, but into the parlour, a room that seemed to be
allotted for strangers, on the ground-floor. I was also now
addressed by the most respectful term, "sir;" whereas the evening
before I had been called only "master": by this latter appellation,
I believe, it is usual to address only farmers and quite common
people.
This was Sunday, and all the family were in their Sunday-clothes. I
now began to be much pleased with this village, and so I resolved to
stop at it for the day, and attend divine service. For this purpose
I borrowed a prayer-book of my host. Mr. Illing was his name, which
struck me the more, perhaps, because it is a very common name in
Germany. During my breakfast I read over several parts of the
English liturgy, and could not help being struck at the circumstance
that every word in the whole service seems to be prescribed and
dictated to the clergyman. They do not visit the sick but by a
prescribed form; as, for instance, they must begin by saying, "Peace
be to this house," &c.
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