The Resel

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Resel is a short story by the Austrian writer Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), which appeared in 1883 in the village and castle stories .

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The chief forester tells the story of poor Resel to the count and the countess. During the hunt, the count noticed one of the hunting assistants who did not open his mouth all day. When they passed a lonely, simple grave in the forest, the assistant wasn't ready to provide any information. The chief forester now explained to the curious countess why the deceased Resel was not buried in the cemetery but in the middle of the forest.

Resel was the daughter of a miller. She was very lively from an early age and could run and jump like no other. Her playmate Toni became her lover, which the parents didn't like, because Toni was still very young and, as a Heger, was also poor. They had provided the landlord's son, Andreas, for Resel. In her need, Resel secretly left her parents' house one night and went to Toni's house, which was far away in the forest. The worried parents sent the old confessor Vitalis to her and let her know that they forgive her and that they would agree to the wedding between Resel and Toni. Resel was overjoyed and grateful to her parents. But she didn't want to come with us alone, but instead wanted to ask her parents for forgiveness together with Toni. When Toni came home that evening, he suddenly didn't want to know anything about getting married because he was in a bad mood. Resel was deeply affected by this. She grabbed a gun hanging on the wall, asked one last time if Toni would like to come with her, and when Toni tries to snatch the gun from her, a shot goes off and Resel collapses. Toni rushes to the pastor, but he demands that Resel must first return to her parents 'house and obtain her parents' forgiveness, then he will give her communion there. So she was brought to her parents' house. Before she had received the sacrament, Toni rushed in desperately. She forgave him and died peacefully knowing that she and her parents had forgiven their Toni. But the people refused to allow her to be buried in the cemetery as a suicide . The silent hunting assistant, however, had been Toni.

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  • Text of the story in the Gutenberg project [1]