Buffalo Seminary - Seminaria Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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SEMINARIA 1948 Would you call a baker somebody7 h h ad asked Hardly I mean someone who h as a bag house and w1ll gaxe me lots of clothes I want to glye bag partres and mvate barons counts and dukes and I ll hue pheasants and pe aco ks to agues and caxaar Yes she had been arrogant and too proud of h r be auty but she had learned Noc astle could compare wath th at llttle apartment behlnd the bakery The katchen wath lts gnngh am curtams and the monstrous stOXe whach lnSlSfLd on smokang no matter how mu h Walhelrn tried to repur at How many evenings they had sat at the tabl Wllhellaa re adang has paper and puffing on has plpe w1th the appearance of a contented cow whale she knlt busaly and trned to conxey to ham the latest gosslp And the shop Its If wath :ts glc unxng whlte cases' What happy days she had spent there answermg the many requests for bread and rolls Every day Frau every hour on the hour Magda h ad trapped an to tease for 1 gmgerbread cake Such l1ttle thmgs' How unlmportant they had seemed for they had been the everyday occurrences of I routane But oh af only th at routlne would govern her llfe once more rf only the bakery would rase out of the charred rubble af only Walhelna would sang agun as lae kne aded soft dough af only Magda would laugh lg'llI1 as she sprmkled car aw ay seeds on huns af only what portent those two llttle words hold' All Europe as saying them an a hopeful VOICQ Anna glanced about the room terror seazang her Of the hue occupants who had been her compamons for the last hour only the garl and the old man remaaned A lattle boy now sat an the pllot s pl ace an old woman an the albano lady s Funny she had not notaced them come an But she was too frlghtened to ponder the questlon After the crappled glrl s turn came hers and who knew what awa1ted her7 To ease her frenzaed mand Anna began to trace wath her eyes the jagged crack an the wall Slowly dellber ately as af her lafe depended on It she sought out each tany crevlce She h ad been sattlng an the kxtchen patchlng a dress that naght when the alarm had sounded She had paad no heed The bells had often rung thelr message of danger but the planes had always passed oxer They had no reason to stop for IH the area there was but one factory and that was hldden an ordanary farm buald 1 1 1 3 1 3 . e 1 1 1 . 1 . 31 3 3 1 1 1 3 1 ' . 1 '3 1 1 1 3 1 , , 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 11 '1 c 1 1,1 1 '1 . 3 , 1 1 33 1 1 1 c 31 , 1 ' . 1 3 1 3 1 11 1 3 3 1 . ' S 1' I - 5 ' I h ' 3 3 . 3 ' 1 - 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 ez 3 31 1 : 1 3 1 1 31 1 3 1 ' 3 , ' 3 : ' ' 1 1 A ' 5 wi 3 1e 1 1 3 1. 31. 1 1 1 1 ' 3 3 3 4 1 . 5 r 3 3' ' 4 ' ' I'Ieadenburg had waddled an to exchange opanaons about the local twosomes, and ' 3 1 1 1 1 3 31 3 1 ' 1 . ' 1 ' y ' ' 2 s 2 sm ze , 5 3 2 5 hx 2 4 3. , S I 2 I 5 A 3 ' 4 W ' 3 I 3 ' A Y I 5 3 1 1 72 1. 3 1 3 1 g 1 1 1 1 I . , A s, 1 1 1 5 1 4 1 ' 3 x I 1 I 5 - 1 5 I 3 ' ' 1 ' 1 3- I 3 3 A V3 ' 1 1 1 , . 1 , , ' , 1 , ' 1 ' :1 3 1 3,1 1 1 1 . , 3 ' I 1 3 3 I 5 ' - 1 3 ' 3 1 1 5 e, s 1. 1 1 1 ' Y K 9 L Y I , . 5 1 ' 1 1 3 5 ' ' I 4 ' 1 1 1 , ' ' '

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SEMINARIA 1948 But he was not completely lost There was Magda She seemed more Wxlhelm s child than hers She had h1s thxn face h1s yellow hzur h1s blue eyes ex en h1s soft VOICE Magda was Anna s last l1nk wlth hun But what 1f Magdl would not accept her? Anna s1ghed and turned her eyes to the crippled gxrl She was whlsperxng somethxng to her comp mxon 1nd she was srmlmg Annl enued her youth She had once been elghteen too and l1ke that glrl she had been beautxful Her long tawny braxds wound txghtly xbout her head had set oil the perfecuon of her fa1r skxn her deep almost purple eyes had flashed excltedly at ex ery prospeet of adventure and her nostrlls had qu1y ered when she laughed and she had laughed often then ah1gh trllllnglaughter that floated on the a1rl1ke 1nar1a The door ofthe receptlon room opened A umformed woman stepped lnto the room and beckoned to the dark halred man Anna watched them lene her eyes remamlnv on the door long after If had closed Yes she had been the belle ofthe v1ll1ge At ex ery dlnce the boys had fought ox er her And oh how she h ld lox ed to dance' It seemed xn age slnce the towns people hld held 1 festlval lI1 eternlty SIDCB th rt nlght on whleh they had eele br Lted the hxrvest and 1 till stranger hmd nntrodueed hunstlf 1 Wllhelrn Volk I have watched you for a long t1me Anna he had sud I hope you don t mxnd nfl call you Ann 17 I don t mlnd Good But as I was sxyxng I hue wxtched you for 1 long t1me md But how could you7 she h 1d lnterrupted I h me never seen you before I know I come here to NISII my grandmother and I Im wlth her most ofthe tlme but I have seen you p1ss1ng by You Ire xery be autlful you know and I thmk I tm go1ng to lxke you My you re bold Her eyes h 1d gllstened as h swung her through the throng of dancers Tell me lf you thought you would lxke me why d1dn t you speak to me before' Grandmother sald you were praetxeally engaged to Fran Sv. xrt Th xt farmer' Oh pooh What s wrong mth 1 farmerj Too poor I want to marry somebody who omebody I , , , , . ' K' U 7 1 , 2 . 2 I . . i , z . , I f ' I . , I f 7 - 1 3 K . . . ' ' , , , , g . , 1 . ' z ' . . , , . . . ' .K I . , , e . 3 I 1 1 : ' ga ' : 1 ' ' ' f 1 1 1 ,L 1 L : ' - 1 ' :X Qs and asked her to dance. M a 9 ' I. . . Q , 1 ' z L 1 . L . I V 5 , . . , , . . . , , . ' . . I . , . f 1 I . e , I ' 1 u 2. . S 5 .

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