Part 18 (1/2)
Peter helped her look, ru around in her cosrumbled
I didn't catch Peter's reply, but it must have been insolent, because she cuffed him on the arht, and Peter pulled his arirl!”
Mrs van D stayed put Peter grabbed her by the wrists and pulled her all around the roo helped Peter led his prisoner as far as the attic stairs, where he was obliged to let go of her Mrs van D cah
”Die Enifu”hruna der Mutter,” I joked [ The Abduction of Mother, a possible reference to Mozart's opera The Abduction frolio]
”Yes, but he hurt me”
I went to have a look and cooled her hot, red wrists ater Peter, still by the stairs and growing iain, strode into the room with his belt in his hand, like a lion ta desk, looking for a handkerchief ”You've got to apologize first” ”All right, I hereby offer ies, but only because if I don't, we'll be here till h in spite of herself She got up and went toward the door, where she felt obliged to give us an explanation (By us Ithe dishes) ”He wasn't like this at hoone flying down the stairs [!] He's never been so insolent This isn't the first tiet with a rabbed my mother like that Did you treat yourback and forth, saying whatever caone upstairs Finally, at long last, she made her exit
Less than five minutes later she stormed back down the stairs, with her cheeks all puffed out, and flung her apron on a chair When I asked if she was through, she replied that she was going downstairs She tore down the stairs like a tornado, probably straight into the arht, this tiiven aand showered with abuse: ill-ot that, I couldn't hear the rest
Everything seeain today!
Yours, Anne M Frank
PS Tuesday and Wednesday evening our beloved Queen addressed the country She's taking a vacation so she'll be in good health for her return to the Netherlands
She used words like ”soon, when I'm back in Holland,” ”a swift liberation,” ”heroism” and ”heavy burdens”
This was followed by a speech by Prime Minister Gerbrandy He has such a squeaky little child's voice that Mother instinctively said, ”Oooh” A clergyman, who must have borrowed his voice fro God to take care of the Jews, all those in concentration ca in Ger rown-ups during their nap time (until two-thirty), you'll have to make do with a letter in pencil
I'e as it h ot to do? Well then, before toraphy of Galileo Galilei, since it has to be returned to the library I started reading it yesterday and have gotten up to page 220 out of 320 pages, so I'll e it Next week I have to read Palestine at the Cross- roads and the second volume of Galilei Besides that, I finished the first voluraphy of Emperor Charles V yesterday, and I still have to work out the ical charts I've collected and the notes I've taken Next I have three pages of foreign words from my various books, all of which have to be written down, memorized and read aloud Number four:to be straightened out, but since it'll take several days to do that and Professor Anne is, as she's already said, up to her ears in work, they'll have to put up with the chaos a while longer Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like mul- ticolored threads in a dress Myron and Phidias are also urgently in need of attention, or else I'll forget entirely how they fit into the picture The same applies, for example, to the Seven Years' War and the Nine Years' War Now I' all mixed up Well, what can you do with a etful I'll be when I' is it going to take before I co Susanna? And what do they mean by Sodom and Gomorrah? Oh, there's still so much to find out and learn And in the meantime, I've left Charlotte of the Palatine in the lurch
You can see, can't you, Kitty, that I' else You've known for a long tireatest wish is to be a journalist, and later on, a farand illusions (or delusions!) will ever come true, but up to now I've had no lack of topics In any case, after the war I'd like to publish a book called The Secret Annex It remains to be seen whether I'll succeed, but my diary can serve as the basis
I also need to finish ”Cady's Life” I've thought up the rest of the plot After being cured in the sanatoriu to Hans It's 1941, and it doesn't take her long to discover Hans's nazi syht of the Jews and of her friend Marianne, they begin drifting apart They ether, but break up when Hans takes up with another girl Cady is shattered, and because she wants to have a good job, she studies nursing After graduation she accepts a position, at the urging of her father's friends, as a nurse in a TB sanatoriuoes to Lake Como, where she runs into Hans He tells her that two years earlier he'd married Cady's successor, but that his wife took her life in a fit of depression Now that he's seen his little Cady again, he realizes how e Cady refuses, even though, in spite of herself, she loves hioes away, and years later Cady learns that he's wound up in England, where he's struggling with ill health
When she's twenty-seven, Cady rows to love hihters and a son, Lthan, Judith and Nico She and Siether, but Hans is always in the back of her ht she dreams of him and says farewell
It's not sentimental nonsense: it's based on the story of Father's life Yours, Anne M Frank
SAturdAY, MAY 13, 1944
My dearest Kitty, Yesterday was Father's birthday, Father and Mother's nineteenth wedding anniversary, a day without the cleaning ladyand the sun was shi+ning as it's never shone before in 1944 Our chestnut tree is in full bloom It's covered with leaves and is even raphy of Linnaeus froler, The Canals of Ae box froht have been done by a professional), containing three eggs, a bottle of beer, a jar of yogurt and a green tie It made our jar of molasses seem rather paltry My roses smelled wonderful cohly spoiled Fifty petits fours arrived from Siemons'
Bakery, delicious! Father also treated us to spice cake, thewas scrumptious!
Yours, Anne M Frank
TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1944
My dearest Kitty, just for a change (since we haven't had one of these in so long) I'll recount a little discussion between Mr and Mrs van D last night: Mrs van D: ”The Germans have had plenty of time to fortify the Atlantic Wall, and they'll certainly do everything within their power to hold back the British It's a the Ger
Mrs van D: ”It is!”
Mr van D: ”They are so strong they're bound to win the war in the end, is that what you ht I'm not convinced that they won't”
Mr van D: ”I won't even answer that”
Mrs van D: ”You alind up answering You let yourself get carried away, every single time”
Mr van D: ”No, I don't I always keep my answers to the bare minimum” Mrs van D: ”But you always do have an answer and you always have to be right! Your predictions hardly ever come true, you know!”
Mr van D: ”So far they have”
Mrs van D: ”No they haven't You said the invasion was going to start last year, the Finns were supposed to have been out of the war by now, the Italian caht to have been over by last winter, and the Russians should already have captured Le Oh no, I don't setto his feet): ”Why don't you shut your trap for a change? I'll show you who's right; so er just wait, one day I'll make you eat your words!” (End of Act One) Actually, I couldn't help giggling Mother couldn't either, and even Peter was biting his lips to keep frorown-ups They need to learn a few things first before they start eneration!
Since Friday we've been keeping the s open again at night Yours, Anne M Frank What Our Annex Family Is Interested In (A Systematic Survey of Courses and Readina Matter) Mr van Daan No courses; looks up s in Knaur's Encyclopedia and Lexicon; likes to read detective stories,or trivial
Mrs van Daan A correspondence course in English; likes to read biographical novels and occasionally other kinds of novels
Mr Frank Is learning English (dickens!) and a bit of Latin; never reads novels, but likes serious, rather dry descriptions of people and places Mrs Frank A correspondence course in English; reads everything except detective stories
Mr Dussel Is learning English, Spanish and Dutch with no noticeable results; reads everything; goes along with the opinion of the lish, French (correspondence course), shorthand in Dutch, English and Ger, econoraphy Margot Frank Correspondence courses in English, French and Latin, shorthand in English, Gereolish literature, French literature, Gerraphy, , preferably on religion and lish, Gerraphy, art history, y, Bible history, Dutch literature; likes to read biographies, dull or exciting, and history books (so)