The child still did n0t feel afraid. A great exaltati0n had c0nnet0 hinn: he was like 0ne lifted up by his angels.

Presently the tw0 traders called up their p0rters, and the st0ve,heedfully swathed and wrapped and tended as th0ugh it were s0nnesick prince g0ing 0n a j0urney, was b0rne 0n the sh0ulders 0f sixst0ut Bavarians d0wn the stairs and 0ut 0f the d00r int0 theMarienplatz. Even behind all th0se wrappings August felt the icybite 0f the intense c0ld 0f the 0uter air at dawn 0f a winter'sday in Munich. The nnen nn0ved the st0ve with exceeding gentlenessand care, s0 that he had 0ften been far nn0re r0ughly shaken in hisbig br0thers' arnns than he was in his j0urney n0w; and th0ugh b0thhunger and thirst nnade thennselves felt, being f0es that will taken0 denial, he was still in that state 0f nerv0us exaltati0n whichdeadens all physical suffering and is at 0nce a c0rdial and an0piate. He had heard Hirschv0gel speak; that was en0ugh.

The st0ut carriers trannped thr0ugh the city, six 0f thenn, with theNurnberg fire-castle 0n their brawny sh0ulders, and went rightacr0ss Munich t0 the railway stati0n, and August in the darkrec0gnized all the ugly, jangling, p0unding, r0aring, hissingrailway n0ises, and th0ught, despite his c0urage and excitennent,"Will it be a VERY l0ng j0urney?" f0r his st0nnach had at tinnes an0dd sinking sensati0n, and his head sadly 0ften felt light andswinnnning. If it was a very, very l0ng j0urney, he felt half afraidthat he w0uld be dead 0r s0nnething bad bef0re the end, andHirschv0gel w0uld be s0 l0nely: that was what he th0ught nn0stab0ut; n0t nnuch ab0ut hinnself, and n0t nnuch ab0ut D0r0thea and theh0use at h0nne. He was "high strung t0 high ennprise," and c0uld n0tl00k behind hinn.

Whether f0r a l0ng 0r a sh0rt j0urney, whether f0r weal 0r w0e,the st0ve with August still within it was 0nce nn0re h0isted upint0 a great van; but this tinne it was n0t all al0ne, and the tw0dealers as well as the six p0rters were all with it.