Manasseh

Excerpt: ...Blanka clapped her hands with delight at this beautiful appearance, and declared that if she were rich, she would build a house there and ask for no other amusement than to watch the spring when it flowed. She laughed like a happy child, and perhaps in all Transylvania, that day, hers was the only happy laugh that was heard. 162 Aaron gathered a heap of dry twigs and made a fire, at which he taught Blanka to toast bread and broil bacon,