text:  But when a week afterwards the functionary whose office it was with silver-headed cane velvet waistcoat and frill to bid the guests to the approaching wedding appeared upon the farms of those who a little before were Klaus's most memorable calumniators and invited all without exception to the merry-making then indeed as if by magic did the despised Lying Klaus become 'a worthy creature after all ' 'a capital fellow at last ' and have his praises echoed from every beer-bench in the parish