MCG4N2 (IV. par 1 - 4, p. 32)
When the people went by the house
to church, the next day, they could hardly believe their eyes. There was
glass in the windows instead of a wooden shutter, and the poor man and
his wife, dressed in nice new clothes, were seen devoutly kneeling in the
church.
"There is something very strange
in all this," said everyone. "Something very strange indeed," said the
rich man, when three days afterwards he received an invitation from his
once poor brother to a grand feast. And what a feast it was! The table
was covered with a cloth as white as snow, and the dishes were all of silver
or gold. The rich man could not, in his great house, and with all his wealth,
set out such a table.
"Where did you get all these
things?" exclaimed he. His brother told him all about the bargain he had
made with the dwarfs, and putting the mill on the table, ground out boots
and shoes, coats and cloaks, stockings, gowns, and blankets, and bade his
wife give them to the poor people that had gathered about the house to
get a sight of the grand feast the poor brother had made for the rich one.
The rich man was very envious
of his brother's good fortune, and wanted to borrow the mill, intending--
for he was not an honest man-- never to return it again. His brother would
not lend it, for the old man with the white beard had told him never to
sell or lend it to anyone.