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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> -<p>Title: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2)</p> -<p>Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p> -<p>Release Date: June 20, 2011 [eBook #36483]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS, VOL. I (OF 2)***</p> -<p> </p> -<h3 class="pg">E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jane Robins,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (http://www.pgdp.net)</h3> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 36483 ***</div> <p> </p> -<hr class="full" /> +<hr class="full" > <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1"></a></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a></span><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a></span></p> <h1>WILHELM MEISTER'S</h1> @@ -303,28 +287,28 @@ with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg. <p class="center"><b>A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER.</b></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4"></a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a></span><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a></span></p> -<hr class="hr1" /> +<hr class="hr1" > <h2>CONTENTS.</h2> <div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="right"><span style="margin-left: 12em;">PAGE</span></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BOOK_I"><span class="smcap"><b>Book I.</b></span></a></td><td align="right">15</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BOOK_II"><span class="smcap"><b>Book II.</b></span></a></td><td align="right">74</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BOOK_III"><span class="smcap"><b>Book III.</b></span></a></td><td align="right">134</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BOOK_IV"><span class="smcap"><b>Book IV.</b></span></a></td><td align="right">185</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BOOK_V"><span class="smcap"><b>Book V.</b></span></a></td><td align="right">254</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BOOK_VI"><span class="smcap"><b>Book VI.</b></span></a></td><td align="right">320</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BOOK_VII"><span class="smcap"><b>Book VII.</b></span></a></td><td align="right">372</td></tr> +<table style="border: none; padding: 4px; border-spacing: 0px;"> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"></td><td style="text-align: right;"><span style="margin-left: 12em;">PAGE</span></td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="#BOOK_I"><span class="smcap"><b>Book I.</b></span></a></td><td style="text-align: right;">15</td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="#BOOK_II"><span class="smcap"><b>Book II.</b></span></a></td><td style="text-align: right;">74</td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="#BOOK_III"><span class="smcap"><b>Book III.</b></span></a></td><td style="text-align: right;">134</td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="#BOOK_IV"><span class="smcap"><b>Book IV.</b></span></a></td><td style="text-align: right;">185</td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="#BOOK_V"><span class="smcap"><b>Book V.</b></span></a></td><td style="text-align: right;">254</td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="#BOOK_VI"><span class="smcap"><b>Book VI.</b></span></a></td><td style="text-align: right;">320</td></tr> +<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="#BOOK_VII"><span class="smcap"><b>Book VII.</b></span></a></td><td style="text-align: right;">372</td></tr> </table></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5"></a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a></span></p> -<hr class="hr1" /> +<hr class="hr1" > <h2>TO THE READER.</h2> <p>These two translations, "Meister's Apprenticeship" and "Meister's @@ -354,7 +338,7 @@ intercalations, giving a great expansion, both of size and of scope. Not pedagogy only, and husbandry and art and religion and human conduct in the nineteenth century, but geology, astronomy, cotton-spinning, metallurgy, anatomical lecturing, and much else, are typically shadowed -forth in this second form of the "Travels," which, however, continues<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +forth in this second form of the "Travels," which, however, continues<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> a fragment like the first, significantly pointing on all hands towards infinitude,—not more complete than the first was, or indeed perhaps less so. It will well reward the trustful student of Goethe to @@ -394,10 +378,10 @@ precious, whether stamped in our mint, or in what mint soever stamped.</p> <p><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><span class="smcap">London</span>, November, 1839.</span></p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr3" /> +<hr class="hr3" > <h2>TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE</h2> <p class="center"><b>TO THE</b></p> @@ -430,7 +414,7 @@ the brother of Virgil and Racine ranks little higher than the author of <p>But of all these people there is none that has been more unjustly dealt with than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. For half a century the admiration—we might almost say the idol—of his countrymen, -to us he is still a stranger. His name, long echoed and re-echoed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +to us he is still a stranger. His name, long echoed and re-echoed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> through reviews and magazines, has become familiar to our ears; but it is a sound and nothing more: it excites no definite idea in almost any mind. To such as know him by the faint and garbled version of his @@ -467,7 +451,7 @@ and hydras, and chimeras dire.</p> <p>Now, it must no doubt be granted, that, so long as our invaluable constitution is preserved in its pristine purity, the British nation may exist in a state of comparative prosperity with very inadequate ideas of -Goethe; but, at the same time, the present arrangement is an evil in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +Goethe; but, at the same time, the present arrangement is an evil in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> its kind,—slight, it is true, and easy to be borne, yet still more easy to be remedied, and which, therefore, ought to have been remedied ere now. Minds like Goethe's are the common property of all nations; @@ -506,7 +490,7 @@ all his gifts, it takes an effort to avoid despising. The author himself, far from "doing it in a passion," wears a face of the most still indifference throughout the whole affair; often it is even wrinkled by a slight sardonic grin. For the friends of the sublime, -then,—for those who cannot do without heroical sentiments, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +then,—for those who cannot do without heroical sentiments, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> "moving accidents by flood and field,"—there is nothing here that can be of any service.</p> @@ -538,13 +522,13 @@ book,—new and peculiar as it is, and only to be understood and learned from itself, by our common notion of the novel, a notion pieced together and produced out of custom and belief, out of accidental and arbitrary requisitions,—is as if a child should grasp at the moon -and stars, and insist on packing them into its toy-box."<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> +and stars, and insist on packing them into its toy-box."<a id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> Unhappily the most of us have boxes, and some of them are very small.</p> <p>Yet, independently of these its more recondite and dubious qualities, there are beauties in "Meister" which cannot but secure it some degree of favor at the hands of many. The philosophical discussions it -contains; its keen glances into life and art; the minute and skilful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +contains; its keen glances into life and art; the minute and skilful<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> delineation of men; the lively, genuine exhibition of the scenes they move in; the occasional touches of eloquence and tenderness, and even of poetry, the very essence of poetry; the quantity of thought and @@ -583,7 +567,7 @@ more faint conviction will suffice, let him turn to the picture of Wilhelm's states of mind in the end of the first book, and the beginning of the second; the eulogies of commerce and poesy, which follow; the description of Hamlet; the character of histrionic life in Serlo and -Aurelia; that of sedate and lofty manhood in the uncle and Lothario.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> +Aurelia; that of sedate and lofty manhood in the uncle and Lothario.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12">[12]</a></span> But, above all, let him turn to the history of Mignon. This mysterious child, at first neglected by the reader, gradually forced on his attention, at length overpowers him with an emotion more deep and @@ -592,7 +576,7 @@ producing. The daughter of enthusiasm, rapture, passion, and despair, she is of the earth, but not earthly. When she glides before us through the light mazes of her fairy dance, or twangs her cithern to the notes of her homesick verses, or whirls her tambourine and hurries round us -like an antique Mćnad, we could almost fancy her a spirit; so pure is +like an antique Mænad, we could almost fancy her a spirit; so pure is she, so full of fervor, so disengaged from the clay of this world. And when all the fearful particulars of her story are at length laid together, and we behold in connected order the image of her hapless @@ -612,9 +596,9 @@ forever.</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> - <span class="i2">"Continuň auditć voces, vagitus et ingens,</span> - <span class="i2">Infantumque animć flentes in limine primo:</span> - <span class="i2">Quos dulcis vitć exsortes, et ab ubere raptos,</span> + <span class="i2">"Continuò auditæ voces, vagitus et ingens,</span> + <span class="i2">Infantumque animæ flentes in limine primo:</span> + <span class="i2">Quos dulcis vitæ exsortes, et ab ubere raptos,</span> <span class="i2">Abstulit atra dies, et funere mersit acerbo."</span> </div> </div> @@ -627,7 +611,7 @@ power of producing such creations and emotions, that Goethe is by many of his countrymen ranked at the side of Homer and Shakspeare, as one of the only three men of genius, that have ever lived.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> <p>But my business here is not to judge of "Meister" or its author, it is only to prepare others for judging it; and for this purpose the most @@ -668,16 +652,16 @@ most gifted of living minds, it increase their knowledge, or even afford them a transient amusement, they will excuse its errors, and I shall be far more than paid for all my labor.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a></span><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h2>MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> -<h2><a name="BOOK_I" id="BOOK_I"></a>BOOK I.</h2> +<hr class="hr2" > +<h2><a id="BOOK_I"></a>BOOK I.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> <p>The play was late in breaking up: old Barbara went more than once to the @@ -703,7 +687,7 @@ she might best present him to the mind of Mariana, best bring to her recollection what she owed him, and what he had a right to expect from her fidelity and thankfulness.</p> -<p>The muslin, with the ribbons half unrolled, to set it off by their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> +<p>The muslin, with the ribbons half unrolled, to set it off by their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> colors, lay like a Christmas present on the small table; the position of the lights increased the glitter of the gilt; all was in order, when the old woman heard Mariana's step on the stairs, and hastened to meet her. @@ -748,7 +732,7 @@ young, soft-hearted, callow merchant's son?"</p> <p>"Just for him," replied Mariana.</p> <p>"Generosity appears to be growing your ruling passion," said the old -woman with a grin: "you connect yourself with minors and moneyless<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> +woman with a grin: "you connect yourself with minors and moneyless<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17">[17]</a></span> people, as if they were the chosen of the earth. Doubtless it is charming to be worshipped as a benefactress."</p> @@ -773,7 +757,7 @@ of two lovers. Old Barbara went grumbling away: we shall retire with her, and leave the happy two alone.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER II.</h3> <p>When Wilhelm saluted his mother next morning, she informed him that his @@ -785,7 +769,7 @@ excessive passion for that amusement. Your father is ever repeating, 'What is the use of it? How can any one waste his time so?'"</p> <p>"He has told me this already," said Wilhelm, "and perhaps I answered him -too hastily; but, for Heaven's sake, mother, is nothing, then, of use<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> +too hastily; but, for Heaven's sake, mother, is nothing, then, of use<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18">[18]</a></span> but what immediately puts money in our purse? but what procures us some property that we can lay our hands on? Had we not, for instance, room enough in the old house? and was it indispensable to build a new one? @@ -825,7 +809,7 @@ the curtain rolled aloft, and showed us the interior of the temple, painted in deep-red colors. The high-priest Samuel appeared with Jonathan, and their strange alternating voices seemed to me the most striking thing on earth. Shortly after entered Saul, overwhelmed with -confusion at the impertinence of that heavy-limbed warrior, who had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> +confusion at the impertinence of that heavy-limbed warrior, who had<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19">[19]</a></span> defied him and all his people. But how glad was I when the little dapper son of Jesse, with his crook and shepherd's pouch and sling, came hopping forth, and said, 'Dread king and sovereign lord, let no one's @@ -864,10 +848,10 @@ us happy." So saying, he got the keys, made haste to find the puppets, and, for a moment, was transported back into those times when they almost seemed to him alive, when he felt as if he himself could give them life by the cunning of his voice and the movements of his hands. -He took them to his room, and locked them up with care.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> +He took them to his room, and locked them up with care.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> <p>If the first love is indeed, as I hear it everywhere maintained to be, @@ -903,7 +887,7 @@ clearer, his talents stronger, his purposes more decided. Accordingly, he soon fell upon a plan to avoid the reproaches of his father, to still the cares of his mother, and, at the same time, to enjoy Mariana's love without disturbance. Through the day he punctually transacted his -business, commonly forbore attending the theatre, strove to be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> +business, commonly forbore attending the theatre, strove to be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> entertaining at table in the evening; and, when all were asleep, he glided softly out into the garden, and hastened, wrapped up in his mantle, with all the feelings of Leander in his bosom, to meet his @@ -947,7 +931,7 @@ oysters, a cargo of which had just arrived, and by no means sparing their champagne.</p> <p>"Pity," Mariana said, "that we did not think of it in time: we might -have had some entertainment to ourselves."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> +have had some entertainment to ourselves."<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> <p>"It is not yet too late," said Wilhelm, giving Barbara a <i>louis-d'or</i>: "get us what we want, then come and take a share with us."</p> @@ -992,7 +976,7 @@ go to sleep: still wanting to have something told me on the subject, I continued putting questions to every one, and would hardly let the maid away who had brought me up to bed.</p> -<p>"Next morning, alas! the magic apparatus had altogether vanished;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> +<p>"Next morning, alas! the magic apparatus had altogether vanished;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> the mysterious veil was carried off; the door permitted us again to go and come through it without obstruction; the manifold adventures of the evening had passed away, and left no trace behind. My brothers and @@ -1006,7 +990,7 @@ hardly be unhappier than I then thought myself."</p> not afraid of such ever being his case.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3> <p>"My sole wish now," continued Wilhelm, "was to witness a second @@ -1032,7 +1016,7 @@ painted, and strung together. It was this young man, who, with the help of a servant, had himself managed the puppets, disguising his voice to pronounce their various speeches. He had no great difficulty in persuading my father, who granted, out of complaisance to a friend, -what he had denied from conviction to his children. In short, our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +what he had denied from conviction to his children. In short, our<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> theatre was again set up, some little ones of the neighborhood were invited, and the play was again represented.</p> @@ -1065,10 +1049,10 @@ it first struck me that I yet comprehended nothing: and here I was right; for the connection of the parts with each other was entirely unknown to me, and every thing depends on that."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> <p>"In well adjusted and regulated houses," continued Wilhelm, "children @@ -1108,7 +1092,7 @@ quick and doubtful eye, considering what I ought to choose and take; turned finally to my dear withered plums, provided myself also with a few dried apples, and completed the forage with an orange-chip. I was quietly retreating with my plunder, when some little chests, lying -piled over one another, caught my attention,—the more so as I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +piled over one another, caught my attention,—the more so as I<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> noticed a wire, with hooks at the end of it, sticking through the joint of the lid in one of them. Full of eager hopes, I opened this singular package; and judge of my emotions, when I found my glad world of heroes @@ -1149,7 +1133,7 @@ the art. My mother forthwith gave him notice of these unexpected talents; and he now contrived to make my parents offer him a couple of chambers in the top story, which commonly stood empty, that he might accommodate the spectators in the one, while the other held his actors, -the proscenium again filling up the opening of the door: my father<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> +the proscenium again filling up the opening of the door: my father<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27">[27]</a></span> had allowed his friend to arrange all this; himself, in the mean time, seeming only to look at the transaction, as it were, through his fingers; for his maxim was, that children should not be allowed to see @@ -1160,7 +1144,7 @@ festivities, to prevent their satisfaction from degenerating into excess and presumption."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3> <p>"The lieutenant now set up his theatre, and managed all the rest. During @@ -1186,7 +1170,7 @@ me unspeakably. My father, however, seemed to relish this misfortune not a little. Prudently shrouding up the contentment he felt at the expertness of his little boy, after the play was finished, he dwelt on the mistakes we had committed, saying it would all have been very -pretty had not this or that gone wrong with us.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> +pretty had not this or that gone wrong with us.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> <p>"I was vexed to the heart at these things, and sad for all the evening. By next morning, however, I had quite slept off my sorrow, and was @@ -1225,7 +1209,7 @@ compositions I found stormy seas, gods descending in chariots of cloud, and, what most of all delighted me, abundance of thunder and lightning. I did my best with pasteboard, paint, and paper: I could make night very prettily; my lightning was fearful to behold; only my thunder did not -always prosper, which, however, was of less importance. In operas,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> +always prosper, which, however, was of less importance. In operas,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29">[29]</a></span> moreover, I found frequent opportunities of introducing my David and Goliath,—persons whom the regular drama would hardly admit. Daily I felt more attachment for the hampered spot where I enjoyed so many @@ -1265,7 +1249,7 @@ the foundations of these little edifices."</p> <p>During this recital, Mariana had called up and put in action all her courtesy for Wilhelm, that she might conceal her sleepiness. Diverting -as the matter seemed on one side, it was too simple for her taste,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +as the matter seemed on one side, it was too simple for her taste,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> and her lover's view of it too serious. She softly pressed her foot on his, however, and gave him all visible signs of attention and approval. She drank out of his glass: Wilhelm was convinced that no word of his @@ -1299,10 +1283,10 @@ who knows whether we shall soon all sit together so quiet and cheery again?"</p> <p>Mariana cast upon her a mournful look, not noticed by Wilhelm, who -proceeded with his narrative.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> +proceeded with his narrative.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3> <p>"The recreations of youth, as my companions began to increase in number, @@ -1344,7 +1328,7 @@ balcony which stretches along the front of the house, and looking over the neighborhood, as the quivering splendor streamed up at the horizon from the departed sun, and the stars came forth, and night pressed forward from every cleft and hollow, and the small, shrill tone of the -cricket tinkled through the solemn stillness,—a hundred and a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> +cricket tinkled through the solemn stillness,—a hundred and a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32">[32]</a></span> hundred times have I repeated to myself the history of the mournful duel between Tancred and Clorinda.</p> @@ -1388,7 +1372,7 @@ exhibited, and, above all, exhibited by them.</p> in idea, the management of two rooms in the house of a neighboring playmate; not calculating that his venerable aunt would never give them up, or considering how a theatre could be made of them, whereof I had -no settled notion, except that it was to be fixed on beams, to have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> +no settled notion, except that it was to be fixed on beams, to have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33">[33]</a></span> side-scenes made of parted folding-screens, and on the floor a large piece of cloth. From what quarter these materials and furnishings were to come, I had not determined.</p> @@ -1428,7 +1412,7 @@ obliged to take leave of my spectators under peals of laughter,—a disaster which cut me to the heart. Thus had our undertaking proved abortive; but the company still kept their places, still wishing to see something. All of us were dressed: I screwed my courage up, and -determined, foul or fair, to give them David and Goliath. Some of my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> +determined, foul or fair, to give them David and Goliath. Some of my<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34">[34]</a></span> companions had before this helped me to exhibit the puppet-play; all of them had often seen it; we shared the characters among us; each promised to do his best; and one small, grinning urchin painted a black beard @@ -1440,7 +1424,7 @@ out of this perplexity, I would think long and well before risking the exhibition of another play."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> <p>Mariana, overpowered with sleep, leaned upon her lover, who clasped her @@ -1466,7 +1450,7 @@ good friends, who had caught the fancy of acting plays, I read a whole wilderness of theatrical productions, as chance put them into my hands. I was still in those happy years when all things please us, when number and variety yield us abundant satisfaction. Unfortunately, too, my taste -was corrupted by another circumstance. Any piece delighted me<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +was corrupted by another circumstance. Any piece delighted me<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> especially, in which I could hope to give delight; there were few which I did not peruse in this agreeable delusion: and my lively conceptive power enabling me to transfer myself into all the characters, seduced me @@ -1505,7 +1489,7 @@ feet, and, full of fury and despair, cast ourselves upon the ground.</p> till Nature began to take her course; and our society branched itself off into sundry little love-associations, as generally more than one sort of comedy is acted in the playhouse. Behind the scenes, each happy -pair pressed hands in the most tender style; they floated in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> +pair pressed hands in the most tender style; they floated in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36">[36]</a></span> blessedness, appearing to one another quite ideal persons, when so transformed and decorated; whilst, on the other hand, unlucky rivals consumed themselves with envy, and out of malice and spite worked every @@ -1548,7 +1532,7 @@ thousand-voiced echo, the graceful movements of the goddess. What a contrast! How easy for me to decide! Nor had I forgotten the more peculiar characteristics of my Muse. Crowns and daggers, chains and masks, as my predecessors had delivered them, were here produced once -more. The contention was keen: the speeches of both were palpably<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +more. The contention was keen: the speeches of both were palpably<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> enough contrasted, for at fourteen years of age one usually paints the black lines and the white pretty near each other. The old lady spoke as beseemed a person that would pick up a pin from her path; the other, @@ -1571,7 +1555,7 @@ that in future, our hero, when recounting his favorite histories, may find more attentive hearers.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3> <p>Thus Wilhelm passed his nights in the enjoyment of confiding love, his @@ -1587,7 +1571,7 @@ ties of nature. His pure soul felt that she was the half, more than the half, of himself. He was grateful and devoted without limit.</p> <p>Mariana, too, succeeded in deceiving herself for a season: she shared -with him the feeling of his liveliest blessedness. Alas! if but the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> +with him the feeling of his liveliest blessedness. Alas! if but the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38">[38]</a></span> cold hand of self-reproach had not often come across her heart! She was not secure from it, even in Wilhelm's bosom, even under the wings of his love. And when she was again left alone, again left to sink from the @@ -1627,7 +1611,7 @@ beckoning of Fate, reaching out its hand by Mariana to save him from the stagnant, weary, drudging life, out of which he had so often wished for deliverance. To leave his father's house and people, now appeared a light matter. He was young, and had not tried the world: his eagerness -to range over its expanses, seeking fortune and contentment, was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> +to range over its expanses, seeking fortune and contentment, was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> stimulated by his love. His vocation for the theatre was now clear to him: the high goal, which he saw raised before him, seemed nearer whilst he was advancing to it with Mariana's hand in his; and, in his @@ -1641,7 +1625,7 @@ one another; yet the whole had an air but the more brilliant on that account.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER X.</h3> <p>He was now in his chamber at home, ransacking his papers, making ready @@ -1666,7 +1650,7 @@ through and through once or twice, then throw them by, and begin something new."</p> <p>"To finish is not the scholar's care: it is enough if he improves -himself by practice."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> +himself by practice."<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> <p>"But also completes according to his best ability."</p> @@ -1711,7 +1695,7 @@ rest; "this at least is finished, whatever else it may be."</p> not deserve the smallest praise: that affair has plagued me enough already, and drawn upon yourself your father's wrath. The verses may be altogether beautiful, but the meaning of them is fundamentally false. I -still recollect your Commerce personified: a shrivelled,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> +still recollect your Commerce personified: a shrivelled,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> wretched-looking sibyl she was. I suppose you picked up the image of her from some miserable huckster's shop. At that time you had no true idea at all of trade; whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, @@ -1749,7 +1733,7 @@ towards themselves a portion of the money, and materials of enjoyment, which circulate in their appointed courses through the world. Cast a look on the natural and artificial productions of all the regions of the earth; consider how they have become, one here, another there, articles -of necessity for men. How pleasant and how intellectual a task is it to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +of necessity for men. How pleasant and how intellectual a task is it to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> calculate, at any moment, what is most required, and yet is wanting, or hard to find; to procure for each easily and soon what he demands; to lay in your stock prudently beforehand, and then to enjoy the profit of @@ -1789,7 +1773,7 @@ imaginary wants of men have rendered indispensable? I can promise you, if you would rightly apply your poetic view, my goddess might be represented as an invincible, victorious queen, and boldly opposed to yours. It is true, she bears the olive rather than the sword: dagger or -chain she knows not. But she, too, gives crowns to her favorites;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +chain she knows not. But she, too, gives crowns to her favorites;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> which, without offence to yours be it said, are of true gold from the furnace and the mine, and glance with genuine pearls, which she brings up from the depths of the ocean by the hands of her unwearied servants."</p> @@ -1816,7 +1800,7 @@ truly, we must live and be men who toil with their living minds and bodies, and enjoy with them also."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XI.</h3> <p>It is now time that we should know something more of Wilhelm's father @@ -1826,7 +1810,7 @@ noblest calling; and both were peculiarly attentive to every advantage which any kind of speculation might produce to them. Old Meister, when his father died, had turned into money a valuable collection of pictures, drawings, copper-plates, and antiquities: he had entirely -rebuilt and furnished his house in the newest style, and turned his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +rebuilt and furnished his house in the newest style, and turned his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> other property to profit in all possible ways. A considerable portion of it he had embarked in trade, under the direction of the elder Werner,—a man noted as an active merchant, whose speculations were @@ -1869,7 +1853,7 @@ transacted his affairs so cleverly, that I am very curious to see how mine will do: <i>his</i> experience, I fear, will cost him dearer."</p> <p>Old Meister had a high notion of his son's faculties and capabilities: -he said this in the hope that his friend would contradict him, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> +he said this in the hope that his friend would contradict him, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45">[45]</a></span> hold up to view the admirable gifts of the youth. Here, however, he deceived himself. Old Werner, who, in practical concerns, would trust no man but such as he had proved, answered placidly, "One must try all @@ -1910,7 +1894,7 @@ conviction that his deliverance is possible, nay, nearer than short-sighted turnkeys believe.</p> <p>At last the appointed hour struck: he went out, shook off all anxiety, -and hastened through the silent streets. In the middle of the great<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> +and hastened through the silent streets. In the middle of the great<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46">[46]</a></span> square he raised his hands to the sky, feeling as if all was behind him and below him: he had freed himself from all. One moment he figured himself as in the arms of his beloved, the next as glancing with her in @@ -1919,7 +1903,7 @@ now and then the call of some watchman brought to his recollection that he was still wandering on the vulgar earth.</p> <p>Mariana came to the stairs to meet him,—and how beautiful, how -lovely! She received him in the new white <i>negligée</i>: he thought he had +lovely! She received him in the new white <i>negligĂ©e</i>: he thought he had never seen her so charming. Thus did she handsel the gift of her absent lover in the arms of a present one; with true passion she lavished on her darling the whole treasure of those caresses which nature suggested, @@ -1936,7 +1920,7 @@ terms, if he might not think himself a father. But to this she answered only with a sigh, with a kiss.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XII.</h3> <p>Next morning Mariana awoke only to new despondency; she felt herself @@ -1950,7 +1934,7 @@ threatening to come; and the most fearful mischiefs were to be anticipated, if the two, as might easily happen, should meet together.</p> <p>"Calm yourself, my dear," said the old woman: "do not spoil your pretty -eyes with crying. Is it, then, so terrible a thing to have two lovers?<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +eyes with crying. Is it, then, so terrible a thing to have two lovers?<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> And though you can bestow your love but on the one, yet be thankful to the other, who, caring for you as he does, certainly deserves to be named your friend."</p> @@ -1987,7 +1971,7 @@ her with a gratified heart, then arose, let herself be dressed, and appeared calmer. "My child, my darling," continued the old woman, in a cozening tone, "I will not trouble you or injure you: I cannot think of tearing from you your dearest happiness. Could you mistake my -intention? Have you forgotten that on all occasions I have cared for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +intention? Have you forgotten that on all occasions I have cared for<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> you more than for myself? Tell me only what you wish: we shall soon see how it may be brought about."</p> @@ -2033,10 +2017,10 @@ with her convictions: she would fain have forgotten the painful relations in which she stood, and a thousand little circumstances forced them back every moment to her recollection.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIII.</h3> <p>In the mean time, Wilhelm had completed the short preliminary journey. @@ -2079,7 +2063,7 @@ loose coats, with enormous cuffs; by their shapeless hats, clumsy muskets; by their unpretending gait, and contented bearing of the body,—he recognized in these people a detachment of provincial militia. They halted beneath an old oak, set down their fire-arms, and -placed themselves at their ease upon the sward, to smoke a pipe of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> +placed themselves at their ease upon the sward, to smoke a pipe of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> tobacco. Wilhelm lingered near them, and entered into conversation with a young man who came up on horseback. The history of the two runaways, which he knew but too well, was again detailed to him, and that with @@ -2118,7 +2102,7 @@ from the arms of joy, when it has found them after many weary days."</p> officers of law having finished their ceremonial, the cart went on; and Wilhelm, who took a deep interest in the fate of the lovers, hastened forward by a foot path to get some acquaintance with the <i>Amtmann</i> -before the procession should arrive. But scarcely had he reached the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +before the procession should arrive. But scarcely had he reached the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> <i>Amthaus</i>, where all was in motion, and ready to receive the fugitives, when his new friend, the <i>Actuarius</i>, laid hold of him; and giving him a circumstantial detail of the whole proceedings, and then launching out @@ -2161,7 +2145,7 @@ power to make a suitable marriage, had not my step-mother, dreading the expense of my portion, taken care to thwart all such proposals. At length I grew acquainted with the young Melina; I felt constrained to love him; and, as we both foresaw the obstacles that stood in the way of -our regular union, we determined to go forth together, and seek in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +our regular union, we determined to go forth together, and seek in the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> wide world the happiness denied us at home. I took nothing with me that was not my own: we did not run away like thieves and robbers; and my lover does not merit to be hauled about in this way, with chains and @@ -2207,7 +2191,7 @@ and the townsfolk present thanked God that in their families no such scandal had occurred, or at least been brought to light.</p> <p>Wilhelm transported his Mariana into this conjuncture, answering at the -bar: he put still finer words in her mouth, making her uprightness<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> +bar: he put still finer words in her mouth, making her uprightness<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53">[53]</a></span> yet more affecting, her confession still nobler. The most violent desire to help the two lovers took possession of him. Nor did he conceal this feeling, but signified in private to the wavering <i>Amtmann</i>, that it @@ -2247,10 +2231,10 @@ happy and lawful union between the lovers.</p> <p>He begged permission of the <i>Amtmann</i> to speak in private with Melina, a request which was granted without difficulty.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIV.</h3> <p>The conversation of these new acquaintances very soon grew confidential @@ -2296,7 +2280,7 @@ condition of an actor."</p> station where he happens to be placed! He is ever coveting that of his neighbor, from which the neighbor in his turn is longing to be free."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> <p>"Yet still there is a difference," said Melina, "between bad and worse. Experience, not impatience, makes me determine as you see. Is there in @@ -2339,7 +2323,7 @@ without its difficulties! It is the secret impulse within, it is the love and the delight we feel, that help us to conquer obstacles, to clear out new paths, and to overleap the bounds of that narrow circle in which others poorly toil. For <i>thee</i> the stage is but a few boards: the -parts assigned thee are but what a task is to a school-boy. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +parts assigned thee are but what a task is to a school-boy. The<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> spectators thou regardest as on work-days they regard each other. For thee, then, it may be well to wish thyself behind a desk, over ruled ledgers, collecting tolls, and picking out reversions. Thou feelest not @@ -2377,7 +2361,7 @@ and encircled his reposing head with the images of heaven.</p> <p>Early in the morning he was awake again, and thinking of the business that lay before him. He revisited the house of the forsaken family, where his presence caused no small surprise. He introduced his proposal -in the most prudent manner, and soon found both more and fewer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> +in the most prudent manner, and soon found both more and fewer<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57">[57]</a></span> difficulties than he had anticipated. For one thing, the evil was already <i>done</i>: and though people of a singularly strict and harsh temper are wont to set themselves forcibly against the past, and thus to @@ -2409,10 +2393,10 @@ who already manifested no dislike to go and see the world, and be seen of it, was obliged, against his will, to set forth in a few days, and seek some place in any acting company where he could find one.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XV.</h3> <p>Happy season of youth! Happy times of the first wish of love! A man is @@ -2455,7 +2439,7 @@ the elements in which he breathed; and, inheriting as he did a portion of his father's taste for finery, it had always been his care, in boyhood, to furbish up his chamber, which he regarded as his little kingdom, in the stateliest fashion. His bed-curtains were drawn together -in large, massy folds, and fastened with tassels, as they are usually<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> +in large, massy folds, and fastened with tassels, as they are usually<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59">[59]</a></span> seen in thrones; he had got himself a carpet for the middle of his chamber, and a finer one for his table; his books and apparatus he had, almost instinctively, arranged in such a manner, that a Dutch painter @@ -2493,7 +2477,7 @@ washes and Italian flowers, pin-cushions, hair-skewers, rouge-pots, and ribbons, books and straw hats,—no article despised the neighborhood of another: all were united by a common element,— powder and dust. Yet as Wilhelm scarcely noticed in her presence aught -except herself; nay, as all that had belonged to her, that she had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +except herself; nay, as all that had belonged to her, that she had<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> touched, was dear to him,—he came at last to feel, in this chaotic housekeeping, a charm which the proud pomp of his own habitation never had communicated. When, on this hand, he lifted aside her bodice, to get @@ -2533,7 +2517,7 @@ decent family, but in a whole town, he had seen with his own eyes; the scenes upon the highway and in the <i>Amthaus</i>, the views entertained by Melina, and whatever else he had witnessed, again arose before him, and brought his keen, forecasting mind into a sort of anxious disquietude; -which no longer to endure, he struck the spurs into his horse, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> +which no longer to endure, he struck the spurs into his horse, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61">[61]</a></span> hastened towards home.</p> <p>By this expedient, however, he but ran to meet new vexations. Werner, @@ -2573,7 +2557,7 @@ her home. On discovering the nightly visits of his friend, Werner's anxiety increased to a painful extent: for he heard that Mariana was a most seductive girl, who probably was draining the youth of his money; while, at the same time, she herself was supported by another and a -very worthless lover.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> +very worthless lover.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> <p>Having pushed his suspicions as near certainty as possible, he had resolved to make a sharp attack on Wilhelm: he was now in full readiness @@ -2617,7 +2601,7 @@ them to his memory. Each party seeks a preference above the other; each has loved sooner, more devotedly; and each, in this contest, would rather be conquered than conquer.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> <p>Wilhelm repeated to his mistress, what he had so often told her before, how she soon abstracted his attention from the play, and fixed it on @@ -2648,7 +2632,7 @@ Wilhelm left his mistress with his heart at peace, and firmly determined on proceeding forthwith to the execution of his project.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XVI.</h3> <p>The necessary preparations for his journey his father and mother had @@ -2659,7 +2643,7 @@ proposal, about which she had hitherto avoided speaking with him. The letter was as follows:—</p> <p>"Under the kind veil of night, which has often over-shadowed us -together, I sit and think, and write to thee: all that I meditate and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> +together, I sit and think, and write to thee: all that I meditate and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> do is solely on thy account. O Mariana! with me, the happiest of men, it is as with a bridegroom who stands in the festive chamber, dreaming of the new universe that is to be unfolded to him, and by means of him, @@ -2700,7 +2684,7 @@ been given to unite all his wishes, as it is to me? No sleep falls upon my eyes: like the redness of an everlasting dawn, thy love and thy happiness still glow around me.</p> -<p>"Scarcely can I hold myself from springing up, from rushing forth<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> +<p>"Scarcely can I hold myself from springing up, from rushing forth<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65">[65]</a></span> to thee, and forcing thy consent, and, with the first light of to-morrow, pressing forward into the world for the mark I aim at. But, no! I will restrain myself; I will not act like a thoughtless fool, will @@ -2741,7 +2725,7 @@ the idea, that <i>I</i> shall at length step forth, and speak to the hearts of men something they have long been yearning to hear. How many thousand times has a feeling of disgust passed through me, alive as I am to the nobleness of the stage, when I have seen the poorest creatures fancying -they could speak a word of power to the hearts of the people! The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> +they could speak a word of power to the hearts of the people! The<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> tone of a man's voice singing treble sounds far pleasanter and purer to my ear: it is incredible how these blockheads, in their coarse ineptitude, deform things beautiful and venerable.</p> @@ -2773,7 +2757,7 @@ farewell! For this time I conclude; my eyelids have more than once dropped together; it is now deep in the night."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XVII.</h3> <p>It seemed as if the day would never end, while Wilhelm, with the letter @@ -2782,7 +2766,7 @@ darkness had scarcely come on, when, contrary to custom, he glided forth to her house. His plan was, to announce himself for the night; then to quit his mistress for a short time, leaving the letter with her ere he went away; and, returning at a late hour, to obtain her reply, her -consent, or to force it from her by the power of his caresses. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> +consent, or to force it from her by the power of his caresses. He<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> flew into her arms, and pressed her in rapture to his bosom. The vehemence of his emotions prevented him at first from noticing, that, on this occasion, she did not receive him with her wonted heartiness; yet @@ -2824,7 +2808,7 @@ grandfather was not merely a collector, he had a thorough knowledge of art. In his younger happy years he had been in Italy, and had brought back with him such treasures as could not now be got for any price. He possessed some exquisite pictures by the best masters. When you looked -through his drawings, you would scarcely have believed your eyes.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> +through his drawings, you would scarcely have believed your eyes.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68">[68]</a></span> Among his marbles were some invaluable fragments; his series of bronzes was instructive and well chosen; he had also collected medals, in considerable quantity, relating to history and art; his few gems @@ -2870,7 +2854,7 @@ secret love for his father's bride."</p> <p>"It was not, certainly, the best picture,—badly grouped, of no superiority in coloring, and executed altogether with great mannerism." -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> <p>"This I did not understand, and do not yet: it is the subject that charms me in a picture, not the art."</p> @@ -2916,7 +2900,7 @@ directs all for our ultimate advantage?"</p> <p>"The question is not now of my belief, nor is this the place to explain how I may have attempted to form for myself some not impossible -conception of things which are incomprehensible to all of us: the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +conception of things which are incomprehensible to all of us: the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> question here is, What mode of viewing them will profit us the most? The fabric of our life is formed of necessity and chance: the reason of man takes its station between them, and may rule them both; it treats the @@ -2957,7 +2941,7 @@ appointed place next day.</p> <p>Wilhelm walked up and down the streets for a time: he heard a sound of clarinets, hunting-horns, and bassoons; it swelled his bosom with delightful feelings. It was some travelling showmen that produced this -pleasant music. He spoke with them: for a piece of coin they followed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> +pleasant music. He spoke with them: for a piece of coin they followed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> him to Mariana's house. The space in front of the door was adorned with lofty trees; under them he placed his artists; and, himself resting on a bench at some distance, he surrendered his mind without restraint to the @@ -2996,7 +2980,7 @@ down upon her threshold, and felt more peace. He kissed the brass knocker of her door: he kissed the threshold over which her feet went out and in, and warmed it by the fire of his breast. He again sat still for a moment, and figured her behind her curtains in the white -night-gown, with the red ribbon round her head, in sweet repose:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +night-gown, with the red ribbon round her head, in sweet repose:<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> he almost fancied that he was himself so near her, she must needs be dreaming of him. His thoughts were beautiful, like the spirits of the twilight; rest and desire alternated within him; love ran with a @@ -3036,7 +3020,7 @@ night, on which he now looked back as if they too had been a vision, were also gone. To soothe his heart, and put the last seal on his returning belief, he took the neckerchief from the pocket of the dress he had been last wearing. The rustling of a letter which fell out of it -took the kerchief away from his lips: he lifted and read,—<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p> +took the kerchief away from his lips: he lifted and read,—<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p> <p>"As I love thee, little fool, what ailed thee last night? This evening I will come again. I can easily suppose that thou art sick of staying here @@ -3047,14 +3031,14 @@ night-gown, that I might have a snowy little lambkin in my arms? Send thy letters always by the ancient sibyl: the Devil himself has selected her as Iris."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> -<h2><a name="BOOK_II" id="BOOK_II"></a>BOOK II.</h2> +<hr class="hr2" > +<h2><a id="BOOK_II"></a>BOOK II.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> <p>Whoever strives in our sight with vehement force to reach an object, be @@ -3088,7 +3072,7 @@ desolate moments, the friend that has hastened to deliverance stands fixed in astonishment; and for him who suffers, it is a benefit that sense forsakes him.</p> -<p>Days of pain, unmixed, ever-returning, and purposely renewed,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> +<p>Days of pain, unmixed, ever-returning, and purposely renewed,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> succeeded next: still, even these are to be regarded as a grace from nature. In such hours Wilhelm had not yet quite lost his mistress: his pains were indefatigable struggles, still to hold fast the happiness @@ -3129,7 +3113,7 @@ extinguished volcano.</p> <p>He now bitterly reproached himself, that, after so great a loss, he could yet enjoy one painless, restful, indifferent moment. He despised -his own heart, and longed for the balm of tears and lamentation.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> +his own heart, and longed for the balm of tears and lamentation.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> <p>To awaken these again within him, he would recall to memory the scenes of his by-gone happiness. He would paint them to his fancy in the @@ -3149,7 +3133,7 @@ turned away from every consolation which aimed at showing that his sorrows might be less than endless.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER II.</h3> <p>Accustomed in this way to torment himself, he now also attacked what @@ -3167,7 +3151,7 @@ aided the recovery of his peace.</p> <p>With his theatric talent it fared no better. He blamed himself for not having sooner detected the vanity on which alone this pretension had -been founded. His figure, his gait, his movements, his mode of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span> +been founded. His figure, his gait, his movements, his mode of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77">[77]</a></span> declamation, were severally taxed: he decisively renounced every species of advantage or merit that might have raised him above the common run of men, and so doing he increased his mute despair to the highest pitch. @@ -3207,7 +3191,7 @@ however, he had so completely succeeded, by irrefragable reasons, in annihilating every hope of love, or poetical performance, or stage representation, that he took courage to obliterate entirely all the traces of his folly,—all that could in any way remind him of it. -For this purpose he had lit a fire in his chamber, one cool evening,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span> +For this purpose he had lit a fire in his chamber, one cool evening,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78">[78]</a></span> and brought out a little chest of relics, among which were multitudes of small articles, that, in memorable moments, he had begged or stolen from Mariana. Each withered flower brought to his mind the time when it @@ -3250,7 +3234,7 @@ a trade for which I was not born." And, with these words, he cast the second packet likewise into the fire. Werner made a motion to prevent him, but the business was already done.</p> -<p>"I cannot see how thou shouldst bring thyself to such extremities,"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> +<p>"I cannot see how thou shouldst bring thyself to such extremities,"<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> said Werner. "Why must these labors, because they are not excellent, be annihilated?"</p> @@ -3292,7 +3276,7 @@ delight him. Heaven has furnished him internally with precious gifts; he carries in his bosom a treasure that is ever of itself increasing; he must also live with this treasure, undisturbed from without, in that still blessedness which the rich seek in vain to purchase with their -accumulated stores. Look at men, how they struggle after happiness<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span> +accumulated stores. Look at men, how they struggle after happiness<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80">[80]</a></span> and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly,—and after what? After that which the poet has received from nature,—the right enjoyment of the world, the feeling of @@ -3331,7 +3315,7 @@ barking!"</p> <p>Werner, it may well be supposed, had listened with the greatest surprise. "All true," he rejoined, "if men were but made like birds, and, though they neither spun nor weaved, could yet spend peaceful days -in perpetual enjoyment; if, at the approach of winter, they could<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span> +in perpetual enjoyment; if, at the approach of winter, they could<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81">[81]</a></span> as easily betake themselves to distant regions, could retire before scarcity, and fortify themselves against frost."</p> @@ -3372,7 +3356,7 @@ enjoyment of all others."</p> I acknowledge, that these ideas pursue me constantly; that, let me flee from them as I will, when I explore my heart, I find all my early wishes yet rooted there, firmly,—nay, more firmly than ever? Yet what now -remains for me, wretched as I am? Ah! whoever should have told me<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> +remains for me, wretched as I am? Ah! whoever should have told me<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82">[82]</a></span> that the arms of my spirit, with which I was grasping at infinity, and hoping with certainty to clasp something great and glorious, would so soon be crushed and smote in pieces,—whoever should have told me @@ -3408,7 +3392,7 @@ doing for myself and her what I owed to both. Who knows to what a state I may have brought her! my conscience by degrees presents to me, in all its heaviness, in what helplessness, in what despair, I may have left her. Was it not possible that she might clear herself? Was it not -possible? How many misconceptions throw the world into perplexity!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span> +possible? How many misconceptions throw the world into perplexity!<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83">[83]</a></span> how many circumstances may extort forgiveness for the greatest fault! Often do I figure her as sitting by herself in silence, leaning on her elbows. 'This,' she says, 'is the faith, the love, he swore to me! With @@ -3429,7 +3413,7 @@ which he thought his prudent councils and keen persuasion had long since mastered and destroyed.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> <p>After such relapses, Wilhelm usually applied himself to business and @@ -3448,7 +3432,7 @@ some affairs to settle.</p> <p>He winded slowly on his path, through dales and over hills, with a feeling of the greatest satisfaction. Overhanging cliffs, roaring brooks, moss-grown rocky walls, deep precipices, he here saw for the -first time; yet his earliest dreams of youth had wandered among such<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> +first time; yet his earliest dreams of youth had wandered among such<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> regions. In these scenes he felt his age renewed; all the sorrows he had undergone were obliterated from his soul; with unbroken cheerfulness he repeated to himself passages of various poems, particularly of the @@ -3492,7 +3476,7 @@ patience with me, I should be a knave if I did not pay you speedily and cheerfully. You come at the proper time to see that I am fully in earnest about it."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> <p>He then called out his wife, who seemed no less delighted than himself to see the youth: she declared that he was very like his father, and @@ -3536,7 +3520,7 @@ they entered on the stage, ran against the actors, and at last, jumping over the orchestra, joined their masters, who had taken up the front seats in the pit.</p> -<p>For afterpiece an oblation was represented. A portrait of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> +<p>For afterpiece an oblation was represented. A portrait of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86">[86]</a></span> old gentleman in his bridegroom dress stood upon an altar, hung with garlands. All the players paid their reverence to it in the most submissive postures. The youngest child came forward dressed in white, @@ -3569,13 +3553,13 @@ to pass a day or two there, that he might refresh both himself and his horse, which the bad roads had considerably injured.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3> <p>On alighting at an inn, upon the market-place, he found matters going on very joyously,—at least very stirringly. A large company of rope-dancers, leapers, and jugglers, having a strong man along with -them, had just arrived with their wives and children, and, while<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> +them, had just arrived with their wives and children, and, while<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87">[87]</a></span> preparing for a grand exhibition, kept up a perpetual racket. They first quarrelled with the landlord, then with one another; and, if their contention was intolerable, the expressions of their satisfaction were @@ -3614,7 +3598,7 @@ kitchen without making any answer.</p> <p>On coming up-stairs, he found in the large parlor two men practising the small sword, or seeming rather to make trial which was the better fencer. -One of them plainly enough belonged to the vaulting company: the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span> +One of them plainly enough belonged to the vaulting company: the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88">[88]</a></span> other had a somewhat less savage aspect. Wilhelm looked at them, and had reason to admire them both; and as the black-bearded, sturdy contender soon afterwards forsook the place of action, the other with extreme @@ -3656,7 +3640,7 @@ This person, whom for the present we shall call Laertes, offered to take Wilhelm over and introduce him. "I and the lady," said he laughing, "are two fragments of an acting company that made shipwreck here a short while ago. The pleasantness of the place has induced us to stay in it, -and consume our little stock of cash in peace; while one of our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span> +and consume our little stock of cash in peace; while one of our<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89">[89]</a></span> friends is out seeking some situation for himself and us."</p> <p>Laertes immediately accompanied his new acquaintance to Philina's door; @@ -3666,7 +3650,7 @@ procuring you so pleasant an acquaintance."</p> <p>The lady came out from her room, in a pair of tight little slippers with high heels, to give them welcome. She had thrown a black mantle over -her, above a white <i>negligée</i>, not indeed superstitiously clean; which, +her, above a white <i>negligĂ©e</i>, not indeed superstitiously clean; which, however, for that very reason, gave her a more frank and domestic air. Her short dress did not hide a pair of the prettiest feet and ankles in the world.</p> @@ -3699,7 +3683,7 @@ him, and to have his head dressed in her presence. "We must lose no time," said she: "who knows how short a while we may all be together?"</p> <p>The boy, out of sulkiness and ill nature more than want of skill, went -on but indifferently with his task: he pulled the hair with his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span> +on but indifferently with his task: he pulled the hair with his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90">[90]</a></span> implements, and seemed as if he would not soon be done. Philina more than once reproved him for his blunders, and at last sharply packed him off, and chased him to the door. She then undertook the business @@ -3741,7 +3725,7 @@ latter did not lose his composure of mind, but began to inform the husbandman about his right to break ground there; giving him withal some primary conceptions of mineralogy. The peasant, not being master of his foreign terminology, asked all manner of silly questions; whereat the -spectators, as themselves more knowing, set up many a hearty laugh.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> +spectators, as themselves more knowing, set up many a hearty laugh.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91">[91]</a></span> The miner endeavored to instruct him, and showed him the advantage, which, in the long-run, would reach even him, if the deep-lying treasures of the land were dug out from their secret beds. The peasant, @@ -3782,7 +3766,7 @@ homewards, that they might arrive in time for seeing the performance of the rope-dancers in the evening. On the road back she continued her lavish generosity, in a style of gayety reaching to extravagance; for at last, every coin belonging to herself or her companions being spent, -she threw her straw hat from the window to a girl, and her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span> +she threw her straw hat from the window to a girl, and her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92">[92]</a></span> neckerchief to an old woman, who asked her for alms.</p> <p>Philina invited both of her attendants to her own apartments, because, @@ -3825,7 +3809,7 @@ with which they both performed their feats of art,—raised the universal satisfaction higher at every step and spring. The stateliness with which they bore themselves, the seeming attentions of the rest to them, gave them the appearance of king and queen of the whole troop; -and all held them worthy of the rank.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p> +and all held them worthy of the rank.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p> <p>The animation of the people spread to the spectators at the windows: the ladies looked incessantly at Narciss, the gentlemen at Landrinette. The @@ -3866,7 +3850,7 @@ brow, and bowing deeply.</p> <p>Wilhelm could not satisfy himself with looking at her. His eyes and his heart were irresistibly attracted by the mysterious condition of this -being. He reckoned her about twelve or thirteen years of age: her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> +being. He reckoned her about twelve or thirteen years of age: her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> body was well formed, only her limbs gave promise of a stronger growth, or else announced a stunted one. Her countenance was not regular, but striking; her brow full of mystery; her nose extremely beautiful; her @@ -3882,7 +3866,7 @@ lightning through the door.</p> <p>As the time drew on when our new friends had to part for the evening, they planned a fresh excursion for the morrow. They purposed now to have -their dinner at a neighboring <i>Jägerhaus</i>. Before taking leave of +their dinner at a neighboring <i>Jägerhaus</i>. Before taking leave of Laertes, Wilhelm said many things in Philina's praise, to which the other made only brief and careless answers.</p> @@ -3896,7 +3880,7 @@ morning, and was gone with them. Wilhelm had been promising himself some pleasant entertainment from her company, and could not hide his irritation. Laertes, on the other hand, but laughed at it, and cried, "I love her for this: it looks so like herself! Let us, however, go -directly to the <i>Jägerhaus</i>: be Philina where she pleases, we will not +directly to the <i>Jägerhaus</i>: be Philina where she pleases, we will not lose our promenade on her account."</p> <p>As Wilhelm, while they walked, continued censuring the inconsistency of @@ -3907,7 +3891,7 @@ that it shall be quite convenient for her to fulfil her plan, to keep her promise. She gives willingly, but you must ever hold yourself in readiness to return her gifts."</p> -<p>"That seems a singular character," said Wilhelm.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p> +<p>"That seems a singular character," said Wilhelm.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p> <p>"Any thing but singular: only she is not a hypocrite. I like her on that account. Yes: I am her friend, because she represents the sex so truly, @@ -3945,7 +3929,7 @@ recounting ludicrous stories, mistakes, and dexterous cheats.</p> <p>A young man of their acquaintance, from the town, came gliding through the wood with a book in his hand: he sat down by them, and began -praising the beauty of the place. He directed their attention to the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> +praising the beauty of the place. He directed their attention to the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96">[96]</a></span> murmuring of the brook, to the waving of the boughs, to the checkered lights and shadows, and the music of the birds. Philina commenced a little song of the cuckoo, which did not seem at all to exhilarate the @@ -3986,7 +3970,7 @@ too, she plaited, while both the young men sat beside her. When, at last, amid infinite mirth and sportfulness, it was completed, she pressed it on Wilhelm's head with the greatest dignity, and shifted the posture of it more than once, till it seemed to her properly adjusted. -"And I, it appears, must go empty," said Laertes.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p> +"And I, it appears, must go empty," said Laertes.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p> <p>"Not by any means: you shall not have reason to complain," replied Philina, taking off the garland from her own head, and putting it on @@ -4031,7 +4015,7 @@ with a force which only rage could have lent him. The showman, on the point of choking, let go the child, and endeavored to defend himself against his new assailant. But some people, who had felt compassion for Mignon, yet had not dared to begin a quarrel for her, now laid hold of -the rope-dancer, wrenched his whip away, and threatened him with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> +the rope-dancer, wrenched his whip away, and threatened him with<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98">[98]</a></span> great fierceness and abuse. Being now reduced to the weapons of his mouth, he began bullying, and cursing horribly. The lazy, worthless urchin, he said, would not do her duty; refused to perform the @@ -4071,7 +4055,7 @@ admitted that his figure and talents had acquired for him a more solid species of favor than the huzzaing of the multitude. He had been invited by some young ladies, who desired much to become acquainted with him; and he was afraid it would be midnight before he could get all his -visits over. He proceeded with the greatest candor to detail his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span> +visits over. He proceeded with the greatest candor to detail his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99">[99]</a></span> adventures. He would have given the names of his patronesses, their streets and houses, had not Wilhelm waived such indiscretion, and politely dismissed him.</p> @@ -4116,7 +4100,7 @@ so that finally a living pyramid was formed; the peak being ornamented by a child, placed on its head, and dressed out in the shape of a ball and weather-vane. Such a sight, never witnessed in those parts before, gave a worthy termination to the whole performance. Narciss and -Landrinette were then borne in litters, on the shoulders of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span> +Landrinette were then borne in litters, on the shoulders of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100">[100]</a></span> rest, along the chief streets of the town, amid the triumphant shouts of the people. Ribbons, nosegays, silks, were thrown upon them: all pressed to get a sight of them. Each thought himself happy if he could behold @@ -4141,7 +4125,7 @@ was good and noble and great embodied and shown forth by the theatric art.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> <p>Next morning, the rope-dancers, not without much parade and bustle, @@ -4155,7 +4139,7 @@ inquired the child quite coolly. "For a hundred ducats," said the other: asked. "Oh, yes! thou must now be a good child."—"I will try," she said.</p> -<p>From that moment she observed strictly what services the waiter<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> +<p>From that moment she observed strictly what services the waiter<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101">[101]</a></span> had to do for both her friends; and, after next day, she would not any more let him enter the room. She persisted in doing every thing herself, and accordingly went through her duties, slowly, indeed, and sometimes @@ -4198,7 +4182,7 @@ feelings on the subject, though he more than once assured them that the Melinas were very worthy people.</p> <p>Indeed, the previous merry life of our three adventurers was interfered -with by this extension of their society, in more ways than one.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span> +with by this extension of their society, in more ways than one.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_102">[102]</a></span> Melina had taken up his quarters in the inn where Philina staid, and he very soon began a system of cheapening and higgling. He would have better lodging, more sumptuous diet, and readier attendance, @@ -4228,14 +4212,14 @@ spiteful, she could spy out with great expertness where another's weak side lay.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3> <p>Melina, in the mean time, had been making strict inquiry about the wrecks of the late theatrical establishment. The wardrobe, as well as decorations, had been pawned with some traders; and a notary had been empowered, under certain conditions, to dispose of them by sale, should -purchasers occur. Melina wished to see this ware, and he took<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> +purchasers occur. Melina wished to see this ware, and he took<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103">[103]</a></span> Wilhelm with him. No sooner was the room opened, than our friend felt towards its contents a kind of inclination, which he would not confess to himself. Sad as was the state of the blotched and tarnished @@ -4274,7 +4258,7 @@ various questions more freely, yet always strangely: so that you could not determine whether it was caused by shrewd sense, or ignorance of the language; for she spoke in broken German interlaced with French and Italian. In Wilhelm's service she was indefatigable, and up before the -sun. On the other hand, she vanished early in the evening, went to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> +sun. On the other hand, she vanished early in the evening, went to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> sleep in a little room upon the bare floor, and could not by any means be induced to take a bed or even a <i>paillasse</i>. He often found her washing herself. Her clothes, too, were kept scrupulously clean; though @@ -4298,7 +4282,7 @@ Melina. Out of humor at this mistake, he tore the paper in pieces, and put off repeating his confession till the next post-day.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3> <p>Our party was now again collected; and Philina, who always kept a sharp @@ -4314,7 +4298,7 @@ now descended from the carriage, and, taking off his hat to salute Philina, discovered an ill-powdered, but yet very stiff, periwig; while Philina threw a hundred kisses of the hand towards him.</p> -<p>As Philina's chief enjoyment lay in loving one class of men, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span> +<p>As Philina's chief enjoyment lay in loving one class of men, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_105">[105]</a></span> being loved by them; so there was a second and hardly inferior satisfaction, wherewith she entertained herself as frequently as possible; and this consisted in hoodwinking and passing jokes upon the @@ -4356,7 +4340,7 @@ engagement: then, meeting with the Pedant by the way, they had hired a carriage to come hither; where, as they found, good counsel was still dear, needful to have, and difficult to get.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> <p>The time while the rest were talking very keenly of their circumstances, Wilhelm spent in thought. He longed to speak in private with the old @@ -4402,7 +4386,7 @@ could never have supposed that ingratitude and impudence were to prove the chief features of her character."</p> <p>Wilhelm had nerved himself to hear the worst of her; when all at once he -observed, with astonishment, that the old man's tones grew milder,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span> +observed, with astonishment, that the old man's tones grew milder,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_107">[107]</a></span> his voice faltered, and he took out his handkerchief to dry the tears, which at last began to trickle down his cheeks.</p> @@ -4442,10 +4426,10 @@ money I had sent to pay the expenses of her lying-in. Oh! the treachery and the fickleness of women are rightly matched, to get a comfortable living for themselves, and to give an honest fellow many heavy hours."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> <p>Wilhelm's feelings, on returning home after this conversation, may be @@ -4484,7 +4468,7 @@ pair of castanets.</p> on the dance. She skipped so sharply and surely along between the eggs, and trod so closely down beside them, that you would have thought every instant she must trample one of them in pieces, or kick the rest away in -her rapid turns. By no means! She touched no one of them, though<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span> +her rapid turns. By no means! She touched no one of them, though<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109">[109]</a></span> winding herself through their mazes with all kinds of steps, wide and narrow, nay, even with leaps, and at last half kneeling.</p> @@ -4522,12 +4506,12 @@ accurately. For his labor she had likewise offered him some money; which, however, he would not accept.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3> <p>After a restless night, which our friend spent, sometimes waking, sometimes oppressed with unpleasant dreams, seeing Mariana now in all -her beauty, now in woful case, at one time with a child on her arm,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span> +her beauty, now in woful case, at one time with a child on her arm,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110">[110]</a></span> then soon bereaved of it, the morning had scarcely dawned, when Mignon entered with a tailor. She brought some gray cloth and blue taffeta; signifying in her own way that she wished to have a new jacket and @@ -4575,7 +4559,7 @@ behind our masks, be as candid as we please."</p> pleasantly with women; they never show themselves in their natural form."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p> <p>"That is to say," replied Madam Melina, "they are not so vain as men, who conceive themselves to be always amiable enough, just as nature has @@ -4622,7 +4606,7 @@ fleeced: shirt-buttons, buckles, every movable about his person, was in Philina's hands. He was trying to enact an English traveller, and could not by any means get into the spirit of his part.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p> <p>Meanwhile the time had passed away very pleasantly. Each had strained his fancy and his wit to the utmost, and each had garnished his part @@ -4667,7 +4651,7 @@ last requisite, of itself conduct the player, like every other artist,—nay, perhaps every other man,—to the lofty mark he aims at?"</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[P113]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_113">[P113]</a></span></p> <p>"The first and the last, the beginning and the end, it may well be; but, in the middle, many things will still be wanting to an artist, if @@ -4713,7 +4697,7 @@ precisely and accurately what the former had determined."</p> <p>"Not at all," replied the other. "Most of what happens in the world confirms my opinion. Do not many incidents at their commencement show some mighty purport, and generally terminate in something paltry?" -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p> <p>"You mean to jest."</p> @@ -4758,10 +4742,10 @@ and particularly to the ladies; and thus, amid joking, singing, kissing, and railleries of all sorts, the hours passed away in the most pleasant manner.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_115">[115]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER X.</h3> <p>When our friends began to think of going home, they looked about them @@ -4810,7 +4794,7 @@ spot.</p> enliven our friend with all manner of diverting wiles; he felt in spirits such as he had not for many a month enjoyed.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_116">[116]</a></span></p> <p>Since that shocking discovery had torn him from the side of Mariana, he had continued true to his vow to be on his guard against the encircling @@ -4843,7 +4827,7 @@ being much fighting and drinking in the piece itself, nothing was more natural than that, on every such occurrence, the company should transport themselves into the situation of the heroes, should flourish and strike along with them, and drink long life to their favorites among -the <i>dramatis personć</i>.</p> +the <i>dramatis personæ</i>.</p> <p>Each individual of the party was inflamed with the noblest fire of national spirit. How it gratified this German company to be poetically @@ -4852,7 +4836,7 @@ manufacture! In particular, the vaults and caverns, the ruined castles, the moss and hollow trees, but above all the nocturnal gypsy scenes, and the Secret Tribunal, produced a quite incredible effect. Every actor now figured to himself how, erelong, in helm and harness, he; every actress -how, with a monstrous spreading ruff, she,—would present their<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span> +how, with a monstrous spreading ruff, she,—would present their<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_117">[117]</a></span> Germanship before the public. Each would appropriate to himself without delay some name taken from the piece or from German history; and Madam Melina declared that the son or daughter she was then expecting should @@ -4893,10 +4877,10 @@ devastations of the by-gone day, and saw the uncleanness, and the many bad effects, of which that ingenious, lively, and well-intentioned poetical performance had been the cause.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XI.</h3> <p>After a short consideration, he called the landlord, and bade him mark @@ -4938,7 +4922,7 @@ something on him."</p> <p>"Let him go about his business," said Melina: "I am any thing but in a trim for hearing fiddlers, and we have singers constantly among ourselves disposed to gain a little by their talent." He accompanied -these words with a sarcastic side-look at Philina: she understood his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span> +these words with a sarcastic side-look at Philina: she understood his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_119">[119]</a></span> meaning, and immediately prepared to punish him, by taking up the cause of the harper. Turning towards Wilhelm, "Shall we not hear the man?" said she: "shall we do nothing to save ourselves from this miserable @@ -4984,7 +4968,7 @@ observations, and debating if the harper was a Papist or a Jew.</p> <p>When asked about the author of the song, the man gave no distinct reply; declaring only that he was rich in songs, and anxious that they should please. Most of the party were now merry and joyful; even Melina was -grown frank in his way; and, whilst they talked and joked together,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span> +grown frank in his way; and, whilst they talked and joked together,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_120">[120]</a></span> the old man began to sing the praise of social life in the most sprightly style. He described the loveliness of unity and courtesy, in soft, soothing tones. Suddenly his music became cold, harsh, and @@ -5004,59 +4988,59 @@ then struck more sharply, and sang,—</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> - <span class="i2">"'What notes are those without the wall,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">Across the portal sounding?</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Let's have the music in our hall,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">Back from its roof rebounding.'</span><br /> - <span class="i2">So spoke the king, the henchman flies:</span><br /> - <span class="i2">His answer heard, the monarch cries,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">'Bring in that ancient minstrel.'</span><br /> + <span class="i2">"'What notes are those without the wall,</span><br > + <span class="i3">Across the portal sounding?</span><br > + <span class="i2">Let's have the music in our hall,</span><br > + <span class="i3">Back from its roof rebounding.'</span><br > + <span class="i2">So spoke the king, the henchman flies:</span><br > + <span class="i2">His answer heard, the monarch cries,</span><br > + <span class="i3">'Bring in that ancient minstrel.'</span><br > <div class="stanza"> </div> - <span class="i2">'Hail, gracious king! each noble knight,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">Each lovely dame, I greet you!</span><br /> - <span class="i2">What glittering stars salute my sight!</span><br /> - <span class="i3">What heart unmoved may meet you!</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Such lordly pomp is not for me,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Far other scenes my eyes must see:</span><br /> - <span class="i3">Yet deign to list my harping.'</span><br /> + <span class="i2">'Hail, gracious king! each noble knight,</span><br > + <span class="i3">Each lovely dame, I greet you!</span><br > + <span class="i2">What glittering stars salute my sight!</span><br > + <span class="i3">What heart unmoved may meet you!</span><br > + <span class="i2">Such lordly pomp is not for me,</span><br > + <span class="i2">Far other scenes my eyes must see:</span><br > + <span class="i3">Yet deign to list my harping.'</span><br > <div class="stanza"> </div> - <span class="i2">The singer turns him to his art,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">A thrilling strain he raises:</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Each warrior hears with glowing heart,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">And on his loved one gazes.</span><br /> - <span class="i2">The king, who liked his playing well,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Commands, for such a kindly spell,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">A golden chain be given him.</span><br /> + <span class="i2">The singer turns him to his art,</span><br > + <span class="i3">A thrilling strain he raises:</span><br > + <span class="i2">Each warrior hears with glowing heart,</span><br > + <span class="i3">And on his loved one gazes.</span><br > + <span class="i2">The king, who liked his playing well,</span><br > + <span class="i2">Commands, for such a kindly spell,</span><br > + <span class="i3">A golden chain be given him.</span><br > <div class="stanza"> </div> - <span class="i2">'The golden chain give not to me;</span><br /> - <span class="i3">Thy boldest knight may wear it,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Who, 'cross the battle's purple sea,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">On lion breast may bear it:</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Or let it be thy chancellor's prize,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Amid his heaps to feast his eyes;</span><br /> - <span class="i3">Its yellow glance will please him.'</span><br /> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span> + <span class="i2">'The golden chain give not to me;</span><br > + <span class="i3">Thy boldest knight may wear it,</span><br > + <span class="i2">Who, 'cross the battle's purple sea,</span><br > + <span class="i3">On lion breast may bear it:</span><br > + <span class="i2">Or let it be thy chancellor's prize,</span><br > + <span class="i2">Amid his heaps to feast his eyes;</span><br > + <span class="i3">Its yellow glance will please him.'</span><br > +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_121">[121]</a></span> <div class="stanza"> </div> - <span class="i2">"I sing but as the linnet sings,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">That on the green bough dwelleth;</span><br /> - <span class="i2">A rich reward his music brings,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">As from his throat it swelleth:</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Yet might I ask, I'd ask of thine</span><br /> - <span class="i2">One sparkling draught of purest wine,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">To drink it here before you.'</span><br /> + <span class="i2">"I sing but as the linnet sings,</span><br > + <span class="i3">That on the green bough dwelleth;</span><br > + <span class="i2">A rich reward his music brings,</span><br > + <span class="i3">As from his throat it swelleth:</span><br > + <span class="i2">Yet might I ask, I'd ask of thine</span><br > + <span class="i2">One sparkling draught of purest wine,</span><br > + <span class="i3">To drink it here before you.'</span><br > <div class="stanza"> </div> - <span class="i2">He viewed the wine: he quaffed it up.</span><br /> - <span class="i3">'O draught of sweetest savor!</span><br /> - <span class="i2">O happy house, where such a cup</span><br /> - <span class="i3">Is thought a little favor!</span><br /> - <span class="i2">If well you fare, remember me,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">And thank kind Heaven, from envy free,</span><br /> - <span class="i3">As now for this I thank you.'"</span><br /> + <span class="i2">He viewed the wine: he quaffed it up.</span><br > + <span class="i3">'O draught of sweetest savor!</span><br > + <span class="i2">O happy house, where such a cup</span><br > + <span class="i3">Is thought a little favor!</span><br > + <span class="i2">If well you fare, remember me,</span><br > + <span class="i2">And thank kind Heaven, from envy free,</span><br > + <span class="i3">As now for this I thank you.'"</span><br > </div> </div> @@ -5068,7 +5052,7 @@ and strength to his aged limbs. He sang a few other ballads, exciting more and more hilarity among the company.</p> <p>"Old man," said Philina, "dost thou know the tune, 'The shepherd decked -him for the dance'?"<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> +him for the dance'?"<a id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> <p>"Oh, yes!" said he: "if you will sing the words, I shall not fail for my part of it."</p> @@ -5092,7 +5076,7 @@ were to bring forward any proper composition on the stage, with the same arch simplicity, the same propriety and gracefulness, I should engage that strong and universal approbation would be the result."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p> <p>"Yes," said Philina: "it would be a charming thing indeed to warm one's self at ice."</p> @@ -5134,7 +5118,7 @@ lend me so much; and hitherto I do not see that you have thought more of the matter, or come any nearer a determination. Had you then consented, we should ere now have been under way. Nor has your intention to leave the place been executed, nor has your money in the mean time been -spared: at least there are people who have always skill to create<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span> +spared: at least there are people who have always skill to create<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_123">[123]</a></span> opportunities for scattering it faster and faster away."</p> <p>Such upbraidings, not altogether undeserved, touched Wilhelm to the @@ -5147,7 +5131,7 @@ that, first out of mirth, then out of spleen, he had drunk more wine than usual.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XII.</h3> <p>After a short time, which he passed sitting looking out before him, @@ -5176,7 +5160,7 @@ take me for thy wife of four weeks' standing; and husbands, who witness this touching scene, will commend me to their wives as a pattern of childlike, simple tenderness."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_124">[124]</a></span></p> <p>Some persons were just then going by: she caressed him in the most graceful way; and he, to avoid giving scandal, was constrained to play @@ -5221,7 +5205,7 @@ but, alas! his entrance, which he now thought sure, was a second time prohibited, and more disagreeably than at first.</p> <p>A young man, with a bundle on his back, came walking fast along the -street, and advanced to Wilhelm, who at once recognized him for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span> +street, and advanced to Wilhelm, who at once recognized him for<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_125">[125]</a></span> Friedrich.</p> <p>"Here am I again!" cried he, looking with his large blue eyes joyfully @@ -5263,14 +5247,14 @@ intends to fix his headquarters in this neighborhood for some time."</p> <p>"It is pity," said the landlord, "that you cannot stop with us: we have good company in the house." The hostler came running out, and took the -horse from the <i>Stallmeister</i>, who continued talking in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span> +horse from the <i>Stallmeister</i>, who continued talking in the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_126">[126]</a></span> door with the landlord, and now and then giving a look at Wilhelm.</p> <p>Our friend, observing that he formed the topic of their conversation, went away, and walked up and down the streets.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIII.</h3> <p>In the restless vexation of his present humor, it came into his head to @@ -5309,7 +5293,7 @@ stood by the door; he was much moved; the mourning of this stranger had again opened the avenues of his heart; he could not resist the claim of sympathy, or restrain the tears which this woe-begone complaint at last called forth. All the pains that pressed upon his soul seemed now at -once to loosen from their hold: he abandoned himself without reserve<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span> +once to loosen from their hold: he abandoned himself without reserve<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_127">[127]</a></span> to the feelings of the moment. Pushing up the door, he stood before the harper. The old man was sitting on a mean bed, the only seat, or article of furniture, which his miserable room afforded.</p> @@ -5361,7 +5345,7 @@ way of prelude, he commenced and sang,—</p> <p>We might describe with great prolixity, and yet fail to express the charms of, the singular conversation which Wilhelm carried on with this -wayfaring stranger. To every observation our friend addressed to him,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> +wayfaring stranger. To every observation our friend addressed to him,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> the old man, with the nicest accordance, answered in some melody, which awakened all the cognate emotions, and opened a wide field to the imagination.</p> @@ -5387,7 +5371,7 @@ sleeping and awake, pleasant and painful, into a circulation, from which, in Wilhelm's actual state, the best effects might be anticipated.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIV.</h3> <p>Accordingly, in walking back, he began to think with greater earnestness @@ -5400,7 +5384,7 @@ of a good supper with her up in her chamber.</p> <p>At this very moment Melina came in with a notary: they went into Wilhelm's chamber together, where the latter, though with some -hesitation, made his promise good; gave a draft of three hundred<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span> +hesitation, made his promise good; gave a draft of three hundred<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_129">[129]</a></span> crowns to Melina, who, handing it to the lawyer, received in return a note acknowledging the sale of the whole theatrical apparatus, and engaging to deliver it next morning.</p> @@ -5443,7 +5427,7 @@ and threaten.</p> back to him his own feelings, in coarser and exaggerated features: he, too, was inflamed with a fierce jealousy; and, had not decency restrained him, he would willingly have satisfied his wild humor; with -malicious spleen would have abused the object of his passion, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> +malicious spleen would have abused the object of his passion, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_130">[130]</a></span> called out his rival; he could have crushed in pieces all the people round him; they seemed as if standing there but to vex him.</p> @@ -5486,7 +5470,7 @@ willingly have taken up a foil against the <i>Stallmeister</i>,—a sword still more willingly, though evidently much his inferior in the science of defence. Yet he deigned not to cast one look on Philina; he was on his guard against any word or movement that could possibly betray his -feelings: and, after having once or twice done justice to the health<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span> +feelings: and, after having once or twice done justice to the health<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_131">[131]</a></span> of the duellists, he hastened to his own room, where a thousand painful thoughts came pressing round him.</p> @@ -5528,7 +5512,7 @@ of affection.</p> <p>She stood before him, and noticed his disquietude. "Master!" she cried, "if thou art unhappy, what will become of Mignon?"—"Dear little -creature," said he, taking her hands, "thou, too, art part of my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span> +creature," said he, taking her hands, "thou, too, art part of my<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_132">[132]</a></span> anxieties. I must go hence." She looked at his eyes, glistening with restrained tears, and knelt down with vehemence before him. He kept her hands: she laid her head upon his knees, and remained quite still. He @@ -5566,21 +5550,21 @@ raised herself: a faint gladness shone upon her face. "My father!" cried she, "thou wilt not forsake me? Wilt be my father? I am thy child!"</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_133">[133]</a></span></p> <p>Softly, at this moment, the harp began to sound before the door: the old man brought his most affecting songs as an evening offering to our friend, who, holding his child ever faster in his arms, enjoyed the most pure and undescribable felicity.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_134">[134]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> -<h2><a name="BOOK_III" id="BOOK_III"></a>BOOK III.</h2> +<hr class="hr2" > +<h2><a id="BOOK_III"></a>BOOK III.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> <div class="poem"> @@ -5627,7 +5611,7 @@ and sang him the song we have just given above.</p> <p>The music and general expression of it pleased our friend extremely, though he could not understand all the words. He made her once more repeat the stanzas, and explain them: he wrote them down, and translated -them into his native language. But the originality of its turns he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span> +them into his native language. But the originality of its turns he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_135">[135]</a></span> could imitate only from afar: its childlike innocence of expression vanished from it in the process of reducing its broken phraseology to uniformity, and combining its disjointed parts. The charm of the tune, @@ -5670,7 +5654,7 @@ necessity, before all other things, of discharging his debt to so generous a friend as Wilhelm had proved himself to be.</p> <p>"I cannot describe," said he to Wilhelm, "the friendliness which you -have shown, in helping me forward to the management of a theatre.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span> +have shown, in helping me forward to the management of a theatre.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_136">[136]</a></span> When I found you here, I was in a very curious predicament. You recollect how strongly I displayed to you, on our first acquaintance, my aversion to the stage; and yet, on being married, I was forced to look @@ -5710,7 +5694,7 @@ considering with what pieces he would first entice the public, when a courier riding up informed the <i>Stallmeister</i> that his lord and lady were at hand; on which the latter ordered out his horses.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_137">[137]</a></span></p> <p>In a short time after this, the coach with its masses of luggage rolled in; two servants sprang down from the coach-box before the inn; and @@ -5755,7 +5739,7 @@ the greatest devotion.</p> <p>The count then stated to each in particular what he ought especially to study, what about his figure or his postures ought to be amended; showed them luminously in what points the Germans always fail; and displayed -such extraordinary knowledge, that all stood in the deepest humility,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span> +such extraordinary knowledge, that all stood in the deepest humility,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_138">[138]</a></span> scarcely daring to draw their breath before so enlightened a critic and so right honorable a patron.</p> @@ -5803,7 +5787,7 @@ first-rate amateur."</p> <p>"I will bring him," cried Philina, hastening to the door.</p> <p>She found our friend still occupied with Mignon: she persuaded him to -come down. He followed her with some reluctance: yet curiosity<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span> +come down. He followed her with some reluctance: yet curiosity<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_139">[139]</a></span> impelled him; for, hearing that the family were people of rank, he longed much to know more of them. On entering the room, his eyes met those of the countess, which were directed towards him. Philina led him @@ -5843,14 +5827,14 @@ soon meet again."</p> <p>These happy prospects enlivened the whole party: every one of them gave free course to his hopes, his wishes, his imaginations; spoke of the -parts he would play, and the applause he would acquire. Melina was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span> +parts he would play, and the applause he would acquire. Melina was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_140">[140]</a></span> considering how he might still, by a few speedy exhibitions, gain a little money from the people of the town before he left it; while others went into the kitchen, to order a better dinner than of late they had been used to.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER II.</h3> <p>After a few days the baron came, and it was not without fear that Melina @@ -5882,7 +5866,7 @@ consequence, the most rigorous poetic justice would have been exercised, had he not pardoned them on the spot.</p> <p>While this piece was rehearsing, each of the auditors had leisure -enough to think of himself, and to mount up quite softly from the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span> +enough to think of himself, and to mount up quite softly from the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_141">[141]</a></span> humble prostration of mind, to which, a little while ago, he had felt disposed, into a comfortable state of contentment with his own gifts and advantages, and, from this elevation, to discover the most pleasing @@ -5923,7 +5907,7 @@ in part, by this engagement; and Wilhelm, who had come from home to study men, was unwilling to let slip this opportunity of examining the great world, where he expected to obtain much insight into life, into himself, and the dramatic art. With all this, he durst not confess how -greatly he wished again to be near the beautiful countess. He rather<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span> +greatly he wished again to be near the beautiful countess. He rather<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_142">[142]</a></span> sought to persuade himself in general of the mighty advantages which a more intimate acquaintance with the world of rank and wealth would procure for him. He pursued his reflections on the count, the countess, @@ -5964,7 +5948,7 @@ at last, when it came to the point of execution, he was forced to be content, if, in so small a troop, he found his people willing to adjust themselves to this or that part as they best were able. When matters would admit of it, Laertes played the lover; Philina the lady's maid; -the two young girls took up between them the characters of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span> +the two young girls took up between them the characters of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_143">[143]</a></span> artless and tender loved ones; the boisterous old gentleman of the piece was sure to be the best acted. Melina himself thought he might come forth as chevalier; Madam Melina, to her no small sorrow, was obliged to @@ -5999,10 +5983,10 @@ encouragement; the public was very much delighted; the most knowing inhabitants of the burgh maintained, that the prince's theatre itself was not so well conducted as theirs.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_144">[144]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> <p>At last the time arrived when the company had to prepare for travelling, @@ -6043,7 +6027,7 @@ illuminated also. Each of the party thought within himself what chamber would be his; and most of them prudently determined to be satisfied with a room in the attic, or some of the side buildings.</p> -<p>They were now proceeding through the village, past the inn.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span> +<p>They were now proceeding through the village, past the inn.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_145">[145]</a></span> Wilhelm stopped the coach, in the mind to alight there; but the landlord protested that it was not in his power to afford the least accommodation: his lordship the count, he said, being visited by some @@ -6082,7 +6066,7 @@ prepared, entirely destroyed their equanimity.</p> <p>Expecting every minute that some person would appear and unbolt the doors, mistaking at one time the pattering of rain, at another the -rocking of the wind, for the much-desired footstep of the castle<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span> +rocking of the wind, for the much-desired footstep of the castle<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_146">[146]</a></span> bailiff, they continued downcast and inactive: it occurred to none of them to go into the new mansion, and there solicit help from charitable souls. They could not understand where their friend the baron was @@ -6122,7 +6106,7 @@ persons of its owners, was thoroughly wetted. Having but a single light, the process of unpacking went on very slowly. In the dark passages they pushed against each other, they stumbled, they fell. They begged to have more lights, they begged to have some fuel. The monosyllabic footman, -with much ado, consented to put down his own lantern; then went his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></span> +with much ado, consented to put down his own lantern; then went his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_147">[147]</a></span> way, and came not again.</p> <p>They now began to investigate the edifice. The doors of all the rooms @@ -6162,7 +6146,7 @@ high, clear, double-lighted lantern in his hand. He turned to Wilhelm, and, holding out to him some fruits and confectionery on a beautiful porcelain plate, "The young lady up-stairs," said he, "sends you this, with the request that you would join her party: she bids me tell you," -added the lackey, with a sort of grin, "that she is very well off<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span> +added the lackey, with a sort of grin, "that she is very well off<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_148">[148]</a></span> yonder, and wishes to divide her enjoyments with her friends."</p> <p>Wilhelm had not at all expected such a message; for, ever since the @@ -6193,7 +6177,7 @@ disorderly collection of remains, and offered no very singular proof of the esteem in which our guests were held.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3> <p>The disorders and mischievous tricks of some frolicsome companions still @@ -6202,7 +6186,7 @@ gay people woke each other; each played a thousand giddy pranks to plague his fellow. The next morning dawned amid loud complaints against their friend the baron, for having so deceived them, for having given so very false a notion of the order and comfort that awaited their arrival. -However, to their great surprise and consolation, at an early hour<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span> +However, to their great surprise and consolation, at an early hour<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_149">[149]</a></span> the count himself, attended by a few servants, made his entrance, and inquired about their circumstances. He appeared much vexed on discovering how badly they had fared; and the baron, who came limping @@ -6243,7 +6227,7 @@ well to imitate that conduct, for it somehow happened that no one could be near him without being punished for it. He was called Jarno, though nobody knew rightly what to make of such a name."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[150]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_150">[150]</a></span></p> <p>Wilhelm had nothing to urge against all this: he had felt a sort of inclination for the stranger, though he noticed in him something cold @@ -6287,7 +6271,7 @@ inspect their progress, was highly satisfied: he showed particularly how they should proceed in every case, displaying an uncommon knowledge of all the arts they were concerned with.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_151">[151]</a></span></p> <p>Next began the business of rehearsing, in good earnest; and there would have been enough of space and leisure for this undertaking, had the @@ -6296,7 +6280,7 @@ Some new guests were daily arriving, and each insisted on viewing the operations of the company.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> <p>The baron had, for several days, been cheering Wilhelm with the hope of @@ -6327,7 +6311,7 @@ and stability to my hopes from the future."</p> <p>He accordingly went through some pieces; read them with the keenest critical eye; made corrections here and there; recited them aloud, that -he might be perfect in his tones and expression: and finally selected<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[152]</a></span> +he might be perfect in his tones and expression: and finally selected<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_152">[152]</a></span> the work which he was best acquainted with, and hoped to gain most honor by. He put it in his pocket, one morning, on being summoned to attend the countess.</p> @@ -6366,7 +6350,7 @@ becoming reverence, though not without a little absence of mind. He often felt for the manuscript in his pocket, and hoped for his deliverance every instant. He was almost losing patience, when a man-milliner was introduced, and immediately began without mercy to open -his papers, bags, and bandboxes; pressing all his various wares upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span> +his papers, bags, and bandboxes; pressing all his various wares upon<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_153">[153]</a></span> the ladies, with an importunity peculiar to that species of creature.</p> <p>The company increased. The baroness cast a look at Wilhelm, and then @@ -6380,7 +6364,7 @@ elegantly flowered waistcoat, without very clearly saying whence it came.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3> <p>This mingled feeling of vexation and gratitude spoiled the remainder of @@ -6407,7 +6391,7 @@ furnish occasion for many ambiguities and jestings. If you mean, however, to compose the play, or have it composed, I can have nothing to object; only I desire to have no part or lot in the matter."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_154">[154]</a></span></p> <p>Melina excused himself; alleging this to be only a casual hint of his lordship the count, who for the rest had left the arrangement of the @@ -6453,7 +6437,7 @@ for neither our company nor our wardrobe would suffice without them. I have counted on some pretty children, that are running up and down the house, and belong to certain of the servants."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_155">[155]</a></span></p> <p>He then desired the baron to communicate his plan to the ladies. The baron soon returned with intelligence that they wished to speak with @@ -6495,7 +6479,7 @@ In the tumult all seems going to destruction, when a person (about whose form and qualities the poet was not yet determined) enters, and, by signifying that the general is near, restores composure. Whereupon the hero's character is painted in the finest colors; security is promised -in the midst of arms; violence and lawless disorder are now to be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span> +in the midst of arms; violence and lawless disorder are now to be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_156">[156]</a></span> restrained. A universal festival is held in honor of the noble-minded captain.</p> @@ -6535,10 +6519,10 @@ the kindest terms. The baroness assured him that he was an incomparable man: she accompanied him to the little stairs, and wished him good-night with a squeeze of the hand.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_157">[157]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3> <p>The interest in his undertakings, which the countess and her friend @@ -6582,7 +6566,7 @@ had all along been spurring on the count to call for more and more books, laughed quite immoderately.</p> <p>"Now," said the count, turning to Wilhelm, "one chief point -is,—which goddess do you mean? Minerva, or Pallas? The goddess<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[158]</a></span> +is,—which goddess do you mean? Minerva, or Pallas? The goddess<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_158">[158]</a></span> of war, or of the arts?"</p> <p>"Would it not be best, your Excellency," said Wilhelm, "if we were not @@ -6625,7 +6609,7 @@ prepared the ballet; so that every thing proceeded as it ought.</p> unpleasant gap in the performance. He had promised to himself a striking effect from Mignon's egg-dance, and was much surprised when the child, with her customary dryness of manner, refused to dance; saying she was -now his, and would no more go upon the stage. He sought to move her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></span> +now his, and would no more go upon the stage. He sought to move her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_159">[159]</a></span> by every sort of persuasion, and did not discontinue his attempt till she began weeping bitterly, fell at his feet, and cried out, "Dearest father! stay thou from the boards thyself!" Little heeding this caution, @@ -6664,7 +6648,7 @@ consulting together, was admitted to the secret. He felt amused at the contrivance, and was heartily disposed to offer the ladies his good services in carrying it through. "It will go hard," said he, "if you cannot extricate yourselves without help from this affair; but, at all -events, I will wait, as a body of reserve." The baroness then told<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></span> +events, I will wait, as a body of reserve." The baroness then told<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_160">[160]</a></span> them how she had on various occasions recited the whole piece to the count, but only in fragments and without order; that consequently he was prepared for each individual passage, yet certainly possessed with the @@ -6701,10 +6685,10 @@ manner by unwilling servants, had to pass their time in practisings and expectations at their quarters in the old mansion, without any one particularly taking thought about them.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> <p>At length the prince arrived, with all his generals, staff-officers, and @@ -6746,7 +6730,7 @@ their exhibitions; that <i>they</i> were the centre round which, and by means of which, the whole was moving and revolving.</p> <p>Wilhelm alone discovered, to his sorrow, that directly the reverse was -true. For although the prince had waited out the first exhibitions,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span> +true. For although the prince had waited out the first exhibitions,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_162">[162]</a></span> sitting on his chair, with the greatest conscientiousness, yet by degrees he grew remiss in his attendance, and seized every plausible occasion of withdrawing. And those very people whom Wilhelm, in @@ -6788,7 +6772,7 @@ sweetest satisfaction; to which their harmless souls yielded without reserve, without cherishing a bolder wish, or thinking about any consequence.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_163">[163]</a></span></p> <p>As two hostile outposts will sometimes peacefully and pleasantly converse together across the river which divides them, not thinking of @@ -6833,7 +6817,7 @@ himself at rehearsals and representations as if these were but secondary matters.</p> <p>The count and his lady would often in the mornings send for some of the -company to attend them, and all had continual cause to envy the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span> +company to attend them, and all had continual cause to envy the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_164">[164]</a></span> undeserved good fortune of Philina. The count kept his favorite, the Pedant, frequently for hours together, at his toilet. This genius had been dressed out by degrees: he was now equipped and furnished, even to @@ -6866,13 +6850,13 @@ I can always figure to myself the poet as living at a splendid court, with a great king before his eyes, in constant intercourse with the most distinguished persons, and penetrating into the secrets of human nature, as it works concealed behind the gorgeous tapestry of palaces. When I -study his "Britannicus," his "Bérénice," it seems as if I were +study his "Britannicus," his "BĂ©rĂ©nice," it seems as if I were transported in person to the court, were initiated into the great and the little, in the habitations of these earthly gods: through the fine and delicate organs of my author, I see kings whom a nation adores, courtiers whom thousands envy, in their natural forms, with their failings and their pains. The anecdote of Racine's dying of a broken -heart, because Louis Fourteenth would no longer attend to him, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span> +heart, because Louis Fourteenth would no longer attend to him, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_165">[165]</a></span> had shown him his dissatisfaction, is to me the key to all his works. It was impossible that a poet of his talents, whose life and death depended on the looks of a king, should not write such works as a king and a @@ -6916,7 +6900,7 @@ unfriendly way, gave him new ideas,—ideas he had need of.</p> capacities, and conceptions, gets into a perplexity, from which a prudent friend might easily deliver him. He resembles a traveller who, at but a short distance from the inn he is to rest at, falls into the -water: were any one to catch him then, and pull him to the bank, with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span> +water: were any one to catch him then, and pull him to the bank, with<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_166">[166]</a></span> one good wetting it were over; whereas, though he struggles out himself, it is often at the side where he tumbled in; and he has to make a wide and dreary circuit before reaching his appointed object.</p> @@ -6933,7 +6917,7 @@ laid hold of him, and led him down to a shoreless ocean, where he soon completely forgot and lost himself.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3> <p>The connection between the baron and the actors had suffered various @@ -6953,7 +6937,7 @@ that very eminent hero, whose part had fallen to his share.</p> arose between the players and their patron. The baron's preference for certain actors became daily more observable: this of necessity chagrined the rest. He exalted his favorites quite exclusively, and thus, of -course, introduced disunion and jealousy among the company. Melina,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span> +course, introduced disunion and jealousy among the company. Melina,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_167">[167]</a></span> without skill to help himself in dubious junctures, felt his situation very vexing. The persons eulogized accepted of their praise, without being singularly thankful for it; while the neglected gentlemen showed @@ -7005,7 +6989,7 @@ scarcely legible, opinions were exceedingly divided. But who the author was, no one could guess; and, as some began to draw a spiteful mirth from it, our friend expressed himself against it very keenly.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_168">[168]</a></span></p> <p>"We Germans," he exclaimed, "deserve to have our Muses still continue in the low contempt wherein they have languished so long; since we cannot @@ -7047,7 +7031,7 @@ the count applauded him with greater zeal than ever; so that the poor wight grew at last inflated till he nearly lost his senses, and began to meditate having a chamber in the castle, like Philina.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_169">[169]</a></span></p> <p>Had this project been fulfilled at once, a great mishap might have been spared him. As he was returning late one evening from the castle, @@ -7091,7 +7075,7 @@ complaints grew louder, and the efforts of our friend to still them more and more abortive.</p> <p>Meanwhile, excepting in rehearsals and hours of acting, Wilhelm scarcely -ever came abroad. Shut up in one of the remotest chambers, to which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span> +ever came abroad. Shut up in one of the remotest chambers, to which<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_170">[170]</a></span> Mignon and the harper alone had free access, he lived and moved in the Shakspearian world, feeling or knowing nothing but the movements of his own mind.</p> @@ -7135,7 +7119,7 @@ court-yard of the castle, the preparations almost finished. The count loved solemnity on these occasions. The boy being now led out, our friend stepped forward, and entreated for delay, as he knew the boy, and had various things to say which might, perhaps, throw light on the -affair. He had difficulty in succeeding, notwithstanding all his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span> +affair. He had difficulty in succeeding, notwithstanding all his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_171">[171]</a></span> statements: at length, however, he did get permission to speak with the culprit in private. Friedrich averred, that, concerning the assault in which the Pedant had been used so harshly, he knew nothing whatever. He @@ -7164,7 +7148,7 @@ serve their friend and guardian with attention, and procure him all the pleasure in their power.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER X.</h3> <p>Philina now succeeded in insinuating farther every day into the favor of @@ -7175,7 +7159,7 @@ was well aware that he had made a deep impression on the countess: she therefore talked about him often, telling much that she knew or did not know, only taking care to speak of nothing that might be interpreted against him; eulogizing, on the contrary, his nobleness of mind, his -generosity, and, more than all, his modest and respectful conduct to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span> +generosity, and, more than all, his modest and respectful conduct to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_172">[172]</a></span> the fair sex. To all inquiries made about him she replied with equal prudence; and the baroness, when she observed the growing inclination of her amiable friend, was likewise very glad at the discovery. Her own @@ -7218,7 +7202,7 @@ with which of late he had afflicted her; she blamed and upbraided herself; confessed that she had but too well deserved such punishment; described with the greatest candor what she called her <i>former</i> situation; adding, that she would despise herself, if she were not -capable of altering, and making herself worthy of his friendship.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span></p> +capable of altering, and making herself worthy of his friendship.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_173">[173]</a></span></p> <p>Wilhelm was struck with this oration. He had too little knowledge of the world to understand that persons quite unstable, and incapable of all @@ -7259,7 +7243,7 @@ He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his nature was entirely averse to all empty gallantry, and his principles forbade any thought of more serious enterprises; so that his perplexity at this moment was in -truth extreme. The fear of displeasing the countess, and that of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span> +truth extreme. The fear of displeasing the countess, and that of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_174">[174]</a></span> pleasing her too well, were equally busy in his mind.</p> <p>Every female charm that had ever acted on him, now showed itself again @@ -7303,7 +7287,7 @@ back, and closed the door behind him."</p> <p>The anxiety of the baroness increased, when a servant came to call her, signifying that the count was with his lady. She went with no light heart, and found the count silent and thoughtful, indeed, but milder and -kinder in his words than usual. She knew not what to think of it.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span> +kinder in his words than usual. She knew not what to think of it.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_175">[175]</a></span> They spoke about the incidents of the chase, and the causes of his quick return. The conversation soon ran out. The count became taciturn; and it struck the baroness particularly, when he asked for Wilhelm, and @@ -7319,7 +7303,7 @@ last dismissed our friend, with praises of his exquisite manner of reading.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XI.</h3> <p>Wilhelm had scarcely read one or two of Shakspeare's plays, till their @@ -7345,7 +7329,7 @@ peacefulness, of this man, have so astonished and transported me, that I long vehemently for the time when I shall have it in my power to read farther."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_176">[176]</a></span></p> <p>"Bravo!" said Jarno, holding out his hand, and squeezing our friend's. "This is as it should be! And the consequences, which I hope for, will @@ -7387,7 +7371,7 @@ Wilhelm could not sufficiently express his gratitude: he was ready to impart to his friend and patron the whole history of his life.</p> <p>In the course of this conversation, they had wandered far into the -park, and at last came upon the highway that crossed it. Jarno stood<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span> +park, and at last came upon the highway that crossed it. Jarno stood<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_177">[177]</a></span> silent for a moment, and then said, "Deliberate on my proposal, determine, give me your answer in a few days, and then let me have the narrative you mean to trust me with. I assure you, it has all along to @@ -7429,7 +7413,7 @@ forlorn beings. How fortunate that I have discovered in time what I had to expect from thee!"</p> <p>Mignon came to meet him as he entered: he clasped her in his arms, -exclaiming, "Nothing, nothing, shall part us, thou good little<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span> +exclaiming, "Nothing, nothing, shall part us, thou good little<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_178">[178]</a></span> creature! The seeming prudence of the world shall never cause me to forsake thee, or forget what I owe thee!"</p> @@ -7468,7 +7452,7 @@ learned that some relations of the baron were among the party.</p> with him. They were very lively, and told a multitude of pleasant stories. One of them especially, who for a time had been on the recruiting-service, was loud in praising the craft and activity of his -captain; who, it appeared, understood the art of alluring men of all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span> +captain; who, it appeared, understood the art of alluring men of all<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_179">[179]</a></span> kinds towards him, and overreaching every one by the deception proper for him. He circumstantially described how several young people of good families and careful education had been cozened, by playing off to them @@ -7489,7 +7473,7 @@ departure, he himself must be banished from the neighborhood of his lovely friend, perhaps forever.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XII.</h3> <p>Meanwhile the baroness had spent several days disquieted by anxious @@ -7505,7 +7489,7 @@ baroness lived in perpetual fright lest, beneath this apparent serenity, a secret rancor might be lurking,—a silent purpose to revenge the offence he had so accidentally discovered. She determined, therefore, to make Jarno her confidant; and this the more freely, as that gentleman -and she already stood in a relation to each other where it is not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span> +and she already stood in a relation to each other where it is not<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_180">[180]</a></span> usual to be very cautious in keeping secrets. For some time Jarno had been her dearest friend, yet they had been dexterous enough to conceal their attachment and joys from the noisy world in which they moved. To @@ -7546,7 +7530,7 @@ Wilhelm.</p> <p>With this intention, the whole story was related to the countess. She, indeed, expressed her displeasure at such conduct; but from that time she became more thoughtful, and in peaceful moments seemed to be -considering, pursuing, and painting out that scene which had been<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span> +considering, pursuing, and painting out that scene which had been<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_181">[181]</a></span> prepared for her.</p> <p>The preparations now going forward on every side left no room for doubt @@ -7591,7 +7575,7 @@ audience been excessively indulgent, they would very soon have dismissed him.</p> <p>Every time he looked at the countess, it seemed to him as if a spark of -electric fire were glancing before his eyes. In the end he knew not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span> +electric fire were glancing before his eyes. In the end he knew not<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_182">[182]</a></span> where to find the breath he wanted for his reading. The countess had always pleased him, but now it appeared as if he never had beheld a being so perfect and so lovely. A thousand thoughts flitted up and down @@ -7631,7 +7615,7 @@ sofa.</p> <p>"And I must go empty?" said Philina, kneeling down at the countess's right hand. "Do but look at the man: he carries such a store of words in -his mouth, when no one wants to hear them; and now he cannot stammer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span> +his mouth, when no one wants to hear them; and now he cannot stammer<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_183">[183]</a></span> out the poorest syllable of thanks. Quick, sir! Express your services by way of pantomime at least; and if to-day you can invent nothing, then, for Heaven's sake, be my imitator."</p> @@ -7682,7 +7666,7 @@ the bracelet-clasp.</p> <p>"How?" cried the countess: "it is the cipher of a female friend!"</p> -<p>"They are the initials of my name. Forget me not. Your image is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span> +<p>"They are the initials of my name. Forget me not. Your image is<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_184">[184]</a></span> engraven on my heart, and will never be effaced. Farewell! I must be gone."</p> @@ -7719,14 +7703,14 @@ what he was doing.</p> <p>Unhappy creatures! What singular warning of chance or of destiny tore them asunder?</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> -<h2><a name="BOOK_IV" id="BOOK_IV"></a>BOOK IV.</h2> +<hr class="hr2" > +<h2><a id="BOOK_IV"></a>BOOK IV.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> <p>Laertes was standing at the window in a thoughtful mood, resting on his @@ -7764,7 +7748,7 @@ her shortened petticoat, which always travels out before her when she moves? She has not the smallest knack or skill to trim herself a little, and conceal her state."</p> -<p>"Let her be," said Laertes. "Time will soon come to her aid."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span></p> +<p>"Let her be," said Laertes. "Time will soon come to her aid."<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_186">[186]</a></span></p> <p>"It were prettier, however," cried Philina, "if we could shake children from the trees."</p> @@ -7806,7 +7790,7 @@ to be so entirely abolished from the recollection of your house."</p> <p>"That is not the case," replied the baron; "but, feeling so tenderly yourself, you could not wish that the count should be obliged to consider himself wholly your debtor, especially when I assure you that -his lordship's highest ambition has always consisted in being<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span> +his lordship's highest ambition has always consisted in being<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_187">[187]</a></span> punctual and just. He is not uninformed of the labor you have undergone, or of the zeal with which you have devoted all your time to execute his views; nay, he is aware, that, to quicken certain operations, you have @@ -7846,7 +7830,7 @@ for the court-theatre, which met with the monarch's warmest approbation. 'I must give him a distinguished recompense,' said the generous prince: 'ask him whether he would choose to have some jewel given him, or if he would disdain to accept a sum of money.' In his humorous way, the poet -answered the inquiring courtier, 'I am thankful, with all my heart,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span> +answered the inquiring courtier, 'I am thankful, with all my heart,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_188">[188]</a></span> for these gracious purposes; and, as the emperor is daily taking money from us, I see not wherefore I should feel ashamed of taking some from him.'"</p> @@ -7886,7 +7870,7 @@ thought of it. Now, however, they were speedily to be in motion. The count had engaged to have the whole party conveyed forward a few days' journey on their way: the horses were now in readiness, and could not long be wanted. Wilhelm asked for his trunk: Frau Melina had taken it to -put her own things in. He asked for money: Herr Melina had stowed it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span> +put her own things in. He asked for money: Herr Melina had stowed it<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_189">[189]</a></span> all far down at the bottom of his box. Philina said she had still some room in hers: she took Wilhelm's clothes, and bade Mignon bring the rest. Wilhelm, not without reluctance, was obliged to let it be so.</p> @@ -7926,7 +7910,7 @@ linger nowhere; for misfortune flies to overtake me, and injures all that are connected with me. Dread every thing, unless you dismiss me; but ask me no questions. I belong not to myself. I cannot stay."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p> <p>"To whom dost thou belong? Who can exert such a power on thee?"</p> @@ -7975,10 +7959,10 @@ constantly a stronger argument at hand. He turned every thing on its fairest side; spoke so bravely, heartily, and cheerily, that even the old man seemed again to gather spirits, and to throw aside his whims.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_191">[191]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER II.</h3> <p>Melina was in hopes to get established, with his company, in a small but @@ -8017,7 +8001,7 @@ with a party-colored band, and a large feather, perfected the mask.</p> <p>The women all asserted that this garb became him very well. Philina in particular appeared enchanted with it. She solicited his hair for -herself,—beautiful locks, which, the closer to approach the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span> +herself,—beautiful locks, which, the closer to approach the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_192">[192]</a></span> natural ideal, he had unmercifully clipped. By so doing she recommended herself not amiss to his favor; and our friend, who by his open-handedness had acquired the right of treating his companions @@ -8042,7 +8026,7 @@ to die with laughing and malicious joy.</p> <p>Wilhelm censured their ingratitude; but they told him in reply that these gentry well deserved what they were getting, their general conduct -toward such deserving people, a sour friends believed themselves, not +toward such deserving people, as our friends believed themselves, not having been by any means the best imaginable. The little consideration, the neglect they had experienced, were now described with many aggravations. The jesting, bantering, and mimicry proceeded as before: @@ -8058,7 +8042,7 @@ encompassed with all the secondary essentials, so to speak, of human life,—will generally become accustomed to consider these qualifications as the first and greatest of all; while the worth of that mode of human life, which nature from her own stores equips and -furnishes, will strike him much more faintly. The behavior of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span> +furnishes, will strike him much more faintly. The behavior of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_193">[193]</a></span> noblemen to their inferiors, and likewise to each other, is regulated by external preferences. They give each credit for his title, his rank, his clothes, and equipage; but his individual merits come not into play."</p> @@ -8099,7 +8083,7 @@ above it. By steadfast attachment and love, the servant is made equal to his lord, who, but for this, is justified in looking on him as a hired slave. Yes, these virtues belong to the lower class of men alone: that class cannot do without them, and with them it has a beauty of its own. -Whoever is enabled to requite all favors easily will likewise easily<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span> +Whoever is enabled to requite all favors easily will likewise easily<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_194">[194]</a></span> be tempted to raise himself above the habit of acknowledgment. Nay, in this sense, I am of opinion it might almost be maintained, that a great man may possess friends, but cannot be one."</p> @@ -8144,7 +8128,7 @@ like school-boys, we are casting all aside that might bring our lesson to our thoughts."</p> <p>"In sad truth," said Philina, "it is even so! Let us choose a play: we -will go through it on the spot. Each of us must do his best, as if he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span> +will go through it on the spot. Each of us must do his best, as if he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_195">[195]</a></span> stood before the largest audience."</p> <p>They did not long deliberate: a play was fixed on. It was one of those @@ -8186,7 +8170,7 @@ only in so far as we have previously sanctioned them among ourselves. Why is the master of the band more secure about his music than the manager about his play? Because, in the orchestra, each individual would feel ashamed of his mistakes, which offend the outward ear; but how -seldom have I found an actor disposed to acknowledge or feel ashamed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span> +seldom have I found an actor disposed to acknowledge or feel ashamed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_196">[196]</a></span> of mistakes, pardonable or the contrary, by which the inward ear is so outrageously offended! I could wish, for my part, that our theatre were as narrow as the wire of a rope-dancer, that so no inept fellow might @@ -8226,10 +8210,10 @@ pleasantly, they also conceived that they had really been effecting something useful, and, by their new constitution, had been opening a new prospect for the stage of their native country.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_197">[197]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> <p>Seeing the company so favorably disposed, Wilhelm now hoped he might @@ -8269,7 +8253,7 @@ should by and by become one person with my hero.</p> form any image of the whole, in its general bearings; till at last it seemed as if impossible. I next went through the entire piece, without interruption; but here, too, I found much that I could not away with. At -one time the characters, at another time the manner of displaying<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</a></span> +one time the characters, at another time the manner of displaying<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_198">[198]</a></span> them, seemed inconsistent; and I almost despaired of finding any general tint, in which I might present my whole part with all its shadings and variations. In such devious paths I toiled, and wandered long in vain; @@ -8310,7 +8294,7 @@ yet never able to unite himself with those who overstepped the limits of the right, the good, and the becoming.</p> <p>"When we read the piece again, you shall judge whether I am yet on the -proper track. I hope at least to bring forward passages that shall<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[199]</a></span> +proper track. I hope at least to bring forward passages that shall<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_199">[199]</a></span> support my opinion in its main points."</p> <p>This delineation was received with warm approval; the company imagined @@ -8321,7 +8305,7 @@ piece, and study it on these principles, and so unfold the author's meaning.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3> <p>Our friends had to continue in the place for a day or two, and it was @@ -8348,7 +8332,7 @@ promising at length to marry the young woman. How, after a few pleasing hours of groomship, he had accordingly been wedded, and been happy as he ought; whereupon, next day, while he was occupied at the rehearsal, his wife, according to professional rule, had honored him with a pair of -horns; and how as he, out of excessive tenderness, hastening home far<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[200]</a></span> +horns; and how as he, out of excessive tenderness, hastening home far<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_200">[200]</a></span> too soon, had, alas! found a former lover in his place, he had struck into the affair with thoughtless indignation, had called out both father and lover, and sustained a grievous wound in the duel. How father and @@ -8389,7 +8373,7 @@ adopted.</p> fear; and when, according to the new republican constitution, the whole members of the state had been called together to take counsel on this extraordinary case, they were almost unanimously of opinion that it -would be proper either to keep back the mischief by abiding where<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[201]</a></span> +would be proper either to keep back the mischief by abiding where<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_201">[201]</a></span> they were, or to evade it by choosing another road.</p> <p>Wilhelm alone, not participating in the panic, regarded it as mean to @@ -8431,7 +8415,7 @@ their shoulders. Wilhelm further stuck a pair of pistols in his girdle. Laertes, independently of this occurrence, had a good gun. They all took the road in the highest glee.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[202]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_202">[202]</a></span></p> <p>On the second day of their journey, the drivers, who knew the country well, proposed to take their noon's rest in a certain woody spot of the @@ -8467,10 +8451,10 @@ shade, lighted a fire, and so awaited, singing as they worked, the remainder of the party, who by degrees arrived, and with one accord saluted the place, the lovely weather, and still lovelier scene.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_203">[203]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> <p>If our friends had frequently enjoyed a good and merry hour together @@ -8513,7 +8497,7 @@ might also be afforded to the critic in the art of fencing. The rest made a circle round them. Both fought with skill and ardor. The interest of the spectators rose higher every pass.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[204]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_204">[204]</a></span></p> <p>But all at once, in the nearest bush, a shot went off, and immediately another; and the party flew asunder in terror. Next moment armed men @@ -8559,7 +8543,7 @@ entreated him to keep still, as his wounds had been but slightly and hastily bound. He stretched out his hand to Mignon, and inquired about the bloody locks of the child, who he supposed was also wounded.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[205]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_205">[205]</a></span></p> <p>For the sake of quietness, Philina let him know that this true-hearted creature, seeing her friend wounded, and in the hurry of the instant @@ -8594,12 +8578,12 @@ to seek a surgeon, and return with his utmost rapidity to help his benefactor, whom he had left apparently upon the brink of death.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3> <p>Meanwhile our three adventurers continued yet a space in their strange position, no one returning to their aid. Evening was advancing: the -darkness threatened to come on. Philina's indifference was changing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[206]</a></span> +darkness threatened to come on. Philina's indifference was changing<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_206">[206]</a></span> to anxiety; Mignon ran to and fro, her impatience increasing every moment; and at last, when their prayer was granted, and human creatures did approach, a new alarm fell upon them. They distinctly heard a troop @@ -8642,7 +8626,7 @@ instruments in it, you soon recognized him for a surgeon. His manners were rude rather than attractive; but his hand was light, and his help welcome.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_207">[207]</a></span></p> <p>Having examined strictly, he declared that none of the wounds were dangerous. He would dress them, he said, on the spot; after which the @@ -8683,12 +8667,12 @@ head were encircled with rays; and a glancing light seemed by degrees to spread itself over all her form. At this moment the surgeon, making preparations to extract the ball from his wound, gave him a sharper twinge; the angel faded away from the eyes of the fainting patient; he -lost all consciousness; and, on returning to himself, the horsemen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[208]</a></span> +lost all consciousness; and, on returning to himself, the horsemen<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_208">[208]</a></span> and coaches, the fair one with her attendants, had vanished like a dream.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3> <p>Wilhelm's wounds once dressed, and his clothes put on, the surgeon @@ -8722,7 +8706,7 @@ assistance of the landlady, a young, inexperienced woman, nothing good could be expected.</p> <p>As the party just arrived required admission, there arose a universal -murmur. All now maintained, that by Wilhelm's advice alone, and under<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[209]</a></span> +murmur. All now maintained, that by Wilhelm's advice alone, and under<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_209">[209]</a></span> his especial guidance, they had entered on this dangerous road, and exposed themselves to such misfortunes. They threw the blame of the disaster wholly on him: they stuck themselves in the door, to oppose his @@ -8755,13 +8739,13 @@ impress her censurers completely with its presence, and by her own good fortune to augment their desperation.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> <p>Though our friend was weak from loss of blood, and though, ever since the appearance of that helpful angel, his feelings had been soft and mild, yet at last he could not help getting vexed at the harsh and -unjust speeches which, as he continued silent, the discontented<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[210]</a></span> +unjust speeches which, as he continued silent, the discontented<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_210">[210]</a></span> company went on uttering against him. Feeling himself strong enough to sit up, and expostulate on the annoyance they were causing to their friend and leader, he raised his bandaged head, and propping himself @@ -8803,7 +8787,7 @@ scolded in the most unseemly manner; and the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double -vigor.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[211]</a></span></p> +vigor.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_211">[211]</a></span></p> <p>Wilhelm, touched to the heart at the same time with sympathy for their sorrows and with vexation at their mean way of thinking, felt all the @@ -8844,7 +8828,7 @@ you in a strange country."</p> is mine; and that little will help us out of the first perplexity. But a man possesses many things besides coined money to assist his friends with. All that is in me shall be devoted to these hapless persons, who, -doubtless, on returning to their senses, will repent their present<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[212]</a></span> +doubtless, on returning to their senses, will repent their present<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_212">[212]</a></span> conduct. Yes," continued he, "I feel that you have need of help; and, what is mine to do, I will perform. Give me your confidence again; compose yourselves for a moment, and accept of what I promise. Who will @@ -8863,7 +8847,7 @@ sitting on her chest, kept cracking nuts, a stock of which she had discovered in her pocket.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3> <p>The huntsman now came back with several people, and made preparations @@ -8884,7 +8868,7 @@ last night assisted him so nobly, had shortly before left their estates, in order to avoid the movements of the contending armies, and remain, till the time of peace, in some more quiet district. He named the elderly nobleman, as well as his niece, mentioned the place they were -first going to, and told how the young lady had charged him to take<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[213]</a></span> +first going to, and told how the young lady had charged him to take<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_213">[213]</a></span> care of Wilhelm.</p> <p>The entrance of the surgeon interrupted the warm expressions of @@ -8928,7 +8912,7 @@ pursue his plans and wishes.</p> impression on his heart. He saw the beautiful Amazon again come riding out of the thickets: she approached him, dismounted, went to and fro, and strove to serve him. He saw the garment she was wrapped in fall -down from her shoulders: he saw her countenance, her figure, vanish<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[214]</a></span> +down from her shoulders: he saw her countenance, her figure, vanish<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_214">[214]</a></span> in their radiance. All the dreams of his youth now fastened on this image. Here he conceived he had at length beheld the noble, the heroic, Clorinda with his own eyes; and again he bethought him of that royal @@ -8954,7 +8938,7 @@ kept in fear all day lest it might be hurt by some stain or other injury.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER X.</h3> <p>Laertes visited his friend. He had not been present during that lively @@ -8967,7 +8951,7 @@ she herself could not on that account enjoy the Old-German satisfaction of having a Mechthilde christened. As for her husband, it now appeared that he had been possessed of abundant cash, and even at first had by no means needed the advances which he had cajoled from Wilhelm. Melina's -present plan was, to set off by the next post-wagon, and he meant to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[215]</a></span> +present plan was, to set off by the next post-wagon, and he meant to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_215">[215]</a></span> require of Wilhelm an introductory letter to his friend, Manager Serlo, in whose company, the present undertaking having gone to wreck, he now wished to establish himself.</p> @@ -9007,7 +8991,7 @@ it, against Philina's will. It was in vain for her to tell our friend that the huntsman had already left a handsome sum with these people, and that accordingly they did but cozen him. To these remonstrances he gave no heed: on the contrary, the two had a sharp quarrel about it; which -ended by Wilhelm signifying, once for all, that Philina must now join<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[216]</a></span> +ended by Wilhelm signifying, once for all, that Philina must now join<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_216">[216]</a></span> the rest of the company, and seek her fortune with Serlo.</p> <p>For an instant or two she lost temper; but, speedily recovering her @@ -9028,7 +9012,7 @@ more, she again came forth with her attentions and her love, again was eager in serving, and lively in entertaining, him.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XI.</h3> <p>Wilhelm was rapidly approaching complete recovery: he now hoped to be @@ -9046,7 +9030,7 @@ his coffer.</p> <p>The desire of again beholding his beautiful deliverer augmented every day. To settle his route, he took counsel with the clergyman,—a -person well skilled in statistics and geography, and possessing a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[217]</a></span> +person well skilled in statistics and geography, and possessing a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_217">[217]</a></span> fine collection of charts and books. They two searched for the place which this noble family had chosen as their residence while the war continued: they searched for information respecting the family itself. @@ -9087,7 +9071,7 @@ sacrifice, which saved a perfect mortal, he was, on the other hand, nigh desperate, when he thought that all hope of finding her and seeing her again was, at least for the present, completely gone.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_218">[218]</a></span></p> <p>What increased this singular emotion still further, was the likeness which he thought he had observed between the countess and the beautiful @@ -9133,12 +9117,12 @@ a touching expression, in the form of an irregular duet.</p> <span class="i2">'Tis but who longing knows,</span> <span class="i2">My grief can measure."</span> <span class="i0"><span style="margin-left: 11.5em;">—<i>Editor's Version.</i></span></span> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[219]</a></span> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_219">[219]</a></span> </div> </div> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XII.</h3> <p>The soft allurements of his dear presiding angel, far from leading our @@ -9171,13 +9155,13 @@ pretty fair defence of his conduct when accused by the company, yet he could not hide from himself that he was guilty. On the contrary, in hypochondriac moments, he took the blame of the whole misfortune.</p> -<p>Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. Wilhelm though -the had awakened confidence in himself, had guided the will of the rest; +<p>Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. Wilhelm thought +he had awakened confidence in himself, had guided the will of the rest; that, led by inexperience and rashness, they had ventured on, till a danger seized them, for which they were no match. Loud as well as silent reproaches had then assailed him; and if, in their sorrowful condition, he had promised the company, misguided by him, never to forsake them -till their loss had been repaid with usury, this was but another<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[220]</a></span> +till their loss had been repaid with usury, this was but another<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_220">[220]</a></span> folly for which he had to blame himself,—the folly of presuming to take upon his single shoulders a misfortune that was spread over many. One instant he accused himself of uttering this promise, under the @@ -9192,7 +9176,7 @@ strange society of Mignon and the harper, to escape the inactivity in which his fate had once more too long detained him.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIII.</h3> <p>Serlo received him with open arms, crying as he met him, "Is it you? Do @@ -9217,7 +9201,7 @@ even remark a shade of sorrow visible on her expressive countenance, to which it lent peculiar interest.</p> <p>For the first time during many months, Wilhelm felt once more in his -proper element. Of late in talking, he had merely found submissive<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[221]</a></span> +proper element. Of late in talking, he had merely found submissive<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_221">[221]</a></span> listeners, and even these not always; but now he had the happiness to speak with critics and artists, who not only fully understood him, but repaid his observations by others equally instructive. With wonderful @@ -9260,7 +9244,7 @@ mournful tinge. He feels that now he is not more, that he is less, than a private nobleman; he offers himself as the servant of every one; he is not courteous and condescending, he is needy and degraded.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[222]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_222">[222]</a></span></p> <p>"His past condition he remembers as a vanished dream. It is in vain that his uncle strives to cheer him, to present his situation in another @@ -9304,7 +9288,7 @@ take hold of the solitary young man: he grows bitter against smiling villains, swears that he will not forget the spirit, and concludes with the significant ejaculation,—</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[223]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_223">[223]</a></span></p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> @@ -9331,7 +9315,7 @@ in mind; at last does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts, yet still without recovering his peace of mind."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIV.</h3> <p>Several people entering interrupted the discussion. They were musical @@ -9351,7 +9335,7 @@ out at the starry sky, she said to him, "You have more to tell us about Hamlet: I will not hurry you,—my brother must hear it as well as I; but let me beg to know your thoughts about Ophelia."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_224">[224]</a></span></p> <p>"Of her there cannot much be said," he answered; "for a few master-strokes complete her character. The whole being of Ophelia floats @@ -9394,7 +9378,7 @@ deserve it." He spoke to her in his kindest manner, but in vain: her tears still flowed, and choked her words.</p> <p>At this moment Serlo entered, most unwelcomely, and, most unexpectedly, -Philina, with her hand in his. "Here is your friend," said he to her:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[225]</a></span> +Philina, with her hand in his. "Here is your friend," said he to her:<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_225">[225]</a></span> "he will be glad to welcome you."</p> <p>"What!" cried Wilhelm in astonishment: "are you here?" With a modest, @@ -9434,11 +9418,11 @@ Wilhelm to fall in love with Aurelia, for then the chase would be worth beholding. "She pursues her faithless swain, thou her, I thee, her brother me. If that will not divert us for a quarter of a year, I engage to die at the first episode which occurs in this four times complicated -tale." She begged of him not to spoil her trade, and to show her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[226]</a></span> +tale." She begged of him not to spoil her trade, and to show her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_226">[226]</a></span> such respect as her external conduct should deserve.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XV.</h3> <p>Next morning Wilhelm went to visit Frau Melina, but found her not at @@ -9475,7 +9459,7 @@ account of them, particularly at the present time, as he promised to himself a great and pure enjoyment from the exhibition of a new play that evening.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_227">[227]</a></span></p> <p>Serlo had refused to let him witness the rehearsal. "You must see us on the best side," he observed, "before we can allow you to look into our @@ -9518,7 +9502,7 @@ longed for her confidence, and devoted himself to be her friend.</p> <p>While he spoke, his eyes were attracted to the boy, who sat before her on the floor, and was busy rattling a multitude of playthings. This child, as Philina had observed, might be about three years of age; and -Wilhelm now conceived how that giddy creature, seldom elevated in her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[228]</a></span> +Wilhelm now conceived how that giddy creature, seldom elevated in her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_228">[228]</a></span> phraseology, had likened it to the sun. For its cheerful eyes and full countenance were shaded by the finest golden locks, which flowed round in copious curls; dark, slender, softly bending eyebrows showed @@ -9561,7 +9545,7 @@ wild enjoyment.</p> <p>"By children, with the pure, clear vision of innocence, what ideas of men were necessarily formed in such a scene! How stolid, brutally bold, importunate, unmannerly, was every one she allured! How sated, empty, -insolent, and insipid, as soon as he had had his wishes gratified! I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[229]</a></span> +insolent, and insipid, as soon as he had had his wishes gratified! I<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_229">[229]</a></span> have seen this woman live, for years, humbled under the control of the meanest creatures. What incidents she had to undergo! With what a front she contrived to accommodate herself to her destiny; nay, with how much @@ -9604,7 +9588,7 @@ scarcely uniting with the rest: and certainly about the end it seems to stand stock-still."</p> <p>"It is very possible," said Wilhelm, "that some individuals of a -nation, which has so many masterpieces to feel proud of, may be led<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[230]</a></span> +nation, which has so many masterpieces to feel proud of, may be led<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_230">[230]</a></span> by prejudice and narrowness of mind to form false judgments; but this cannot hinder us from looking with our own eyes, and doing justice where we see it due. I am very far from censuring the plan of 'Hamlet': on the @@ -9647,10 +9631,10 @@ besides, it appears to me, that for the honor of your poet, as others for the honor of Providence, you ascribe to him an object and a plan such as he himself had never thought of."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[231]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_231">[231]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XVI.</h3> <p>"Let me also put a question," said Aurelia. "I have looked at Ophelia's @@ -9690,7 +9674,7 @@ exerted all her strength; and as Wilhelm hastened towards them, to separate and soothe them, Aurelia sprang aside with a naked dagger in her hand; while Serlo cast the scabbard, which had staid with him, angrily upon the floor. Wilhelm started back astonished; and his dumb -wonder seemed to ask the cause why so violent a strife, about so<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[232]</a></span> +wonder seemed to ask the cause why so violent a strife, about so<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_232">[232]</a></span> strange an implement, had taken place between them.</p> <p>"You shall judge betwixt us," said the brother. "What business she with @@ -9732,7 +9716,7 @@ have scarcely seen a person that so little knew, so totally misknew, the people he lived with, as you do. Allow me to say it: in hearing you expound the mysteries of Shakspeare, one would think you had just descended from a synod of the gods, and had listened there while they -were taking counsel how to form men; in seeing you transact with your<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[233]</a></span> +were taking counsel how to form men; in seeing you transact with your<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_233">[233]</a></span> fellows, I could imagine you to be the first large-born child of the Creation, standing agape, and gazing with strange wonderment and edifying good nature at lions and apes and sheep and elephants, and @@ -9773,7 +9757,7 @@ from them by a row of lamps, whose glancing and vapor threw an indistinctness over every thing before me. How welcome was the tumult of applause which sounded to me from the crowd! how gratefully did I accept the present offered me unanimously by so many hands! For a time I rocked -myself in these ideas: I affected the multitude, and was again<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[234]</a></span> +myself in these ideas: I affected the multitude, and was again<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_234">[234]</a></span> affected by them. With my public I was on the fairest footing: I imagined that I felt a perfect harmony betwixt us, and that on each occasion I beheld before me the best and noblest of the land.</p> @@ -9813,7 +9797,7 @@ those applauses in detail, which in their accumulated state had so delighted me, which in the gross I had appropriated with such pleasure.</p> <p>"If I expected a rational compliment upon my acting, if I hoped that -they would praise an author whom I valued, they were sure to make one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[235]</a></span> +they would praise an author whom I valued, they were sure to make one<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_235">[235]</a></span> empty observation on the back of another, and to name some vapid play in which they wished to see me act. If I listened in their company, to hear if some noble, brilliant, witty thought had met with a response among @@ -9853,7 +9837,7 @@ not continue silent, because I had come out to speak.</p> <p>"Yet let me do the matter justice. I had altogether given myself up to the disposal of my brother. His objects were, applause and money; for, between ourselves, he has no dislike to hear his own praises; and his -outlay is always great. I no longer played according to my own<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[236]</a></span> +outlay is always great. I no longer played according to my own<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_236">[236]</a></span> feeling, to my own conviction, but as he directed me; and, if I did it to his satisfaction, I was content. He steered entirely by the caprices of the public. Money flowed upon us: he could live according to his @@ -9894,7 +9878,7 @@ disclosed and communicated.</p> <p>Since we are at present on the subject, we may also mention the perplexity which Wilhelm had of late experienced from certain parts of -her procedure, When she came or went, wished him good-morning or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[237]</a></span> +her procedure, When she came or went, wished him good-morning or<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_237">[237]</a></span> good-night, she clasped him so firmly in her arms, and kissed him with such ardor, that often the violence of this expanding nature gave him serious fears. The spasmodic vivacity of her demeanor seemed daily to @@ -9936,7 +9920,7 @@ me off my guard.</p> <p>"In the town, he had intercourse with few: he was often on horseback, visiting his many friends in the neighborhood, and managing the business -of his house. On returning, he would frequently alight at my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[238]</a></span> +of his house. On returning, he would frequently alight at my<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_238">[238]</a></span> apartments; he treated my ever-ailing husband with warm attention; he procured him mitigation of his sickness by a good physician. And, taking part in all that interested me, he allowed me to take part in all that @@ -9977,7 +9961,7 @@ light: I felt astonished at my former blindness.</p> <p>"'How foolish,' said I often to myself, 'was it to revile a nation,—foolish, simply because it was a nation. Is it necessary, is it possible, that individual men should generally interest us much? -Not at all! The only question is, whether in the great mass there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[239]</a></span> +Not at all! The only question is, whether in the great mass there<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_239">[239]</a></span> exists a sufficient quantity of talent, force, and capability, which lucky circumstances may develop, which men of lofty minds may direct upon a common object.' I now rejoiced in discovering so little prominent @@ -10011,10 +9995,10 @@ complete, more intimate, no union ever was than ours. The name of love was not mentioned. He went and came, came and went. And now, my friend, it is high time that you, too, should go."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[240]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_240">[240]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XVII.</h3> <p>Wilhelm could put off no longer the visiting of his commercial friends. @@ -10054,7 +10038,7 @@ thoughts, and many experiences of the heart and spirit, but not a word concerning outward objects, on which, as he now discovered, he had not bestowed the least attention.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[241]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_241">[241]</a></span></p> <p>In this embarrassment, the acquisitions of his friend Laertes came very seasonably to his aid. Custom had united these young people, unlike one @@ -10067,7 +10051,7 @@ it a view into the transitoriness, the discontinuity, of man's existence. Hence had arisen a humorous, flighty, rhapsodical way of thinking about all things, or, rather, of uttering the immediate impressions they produced on him. He did not like to be alone; he -strolled about all the coffee-houses and <i>tables-d'hôte</i>; and, when he +strolled about all the coffee-houses and <i>tables-d'hĂ´te</i>; and, when he did stay at home, books of travels were his favorite, nay, his only, kind of reading. Having lately found a large circulating library, he had been enabled to content his taste in this respect to the full; and @@ -10094,7 +10078,7 @@ allegations against others. If we do not travel through the residence of any noted man, we shall take care to meet such persons at the inn, and make them utter the most foolish stuff to us. Particularly, let us not forget to insert, with all its graces and sentiments, some love-story -with a pastoral bar-maid. I tell you, it shall be a composition which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[242]</a></span> +with a pastoral bar-maid. I tell you, it shall be a composition which<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_242">[242]</a></span> will not only fill father and mother with delight, but which booksellers themselves shall gladly pay you current money for."</p> @@ -10105,7 +10089,7 @@ satisfaction, and was daily more and more expanding his ideas, which had been too long revolving in the same narrow circle.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XVIII.</h3> <p>It was not without deep interest that he became acquainted with the @@ -10132,7 +10116,7 @@ accustomed to bestow a hearty drubbing on the children who had followed them: and these, it was supposed, would recollect the place exactly to the latest day of their lives. Serlo waxed in stature, and showed the finest capabilities of spirit and of body,—in particular, an -admirable pliancy at once in his thoughts, looks, movements, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[243]</a></span> +admirable pliancy at once in his thoughts, looks, movements, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_243">[243]</a></span> gestures. His gift of imitation was beyond belief. When still a boy, he could mimic persons, so that you would think you saw them; though in form, age, and disposition, they might be entirely unlike him, and @@ -10172,7 +10156,7 @@ the midst of waving flame, they met with the sorriest welcome.</p> feel offended at such bold procedure, and perhaps forget the reverence due to his privileged office of Accuser and Turnkey. So in all silence, before the Millennium commenced, he withdrew, and betook him to a -neighboring town. Here a society of persons, denominated Children of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[244]</a></span> +neighboring town. Here a society of persons, denominated Children of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_244">[244]</a></span> Joy, received him with open arms. They were a set of clever, strong-headed, lively geniuses, who saw well enough that the sum of our existence, divided by reason, never gives an integer number, but that a @@ -10211,7 +10195,7 @@ entire freedom, even against his benefactors,—made him precious, or rather indispensable, to the whole society.</p> <p>Yet his restless mind soon drove him from this favorable scene to other -quarters of his country, where other means of instruction awaited him.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[245]</a></span> +quarters of his country, where other means of instruction awaited him.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_245">[245]</a></span> He came into the polished, but also barren, part of Germany, where, in worshipping the good and the beautiful, there is indeed no want of truth, but frequently a grievous want of spirit. His masks would here do @@ -10250,7 +10234,7 @@ parts and pieces, he improved very fast. Erelong he could recite and play with more conformity to the sense than the models whom he had at first imitated. Proceeding thus, he arrived by degrees at playing naturally; though he did not cease to feign. He seemed transported, yet -he lay in wait for the effect; and his greatest pride was in moving,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[246]</a></span> +he lay in wait for the effect; and his greatest pride was in moving,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_246">[246]</a></span> by successive touches, the passions of men. The mad trade he drove did itself soon force him to proceed with a certain moderation; and thus, partly by constraint, partly by instinct, he learned the art of which so @@ -10290,7 +10274,7 @@ become a man of circumstance, in possession of a distinct reputation, and of a very good, though not entirely secure, employment and rank, he was wont, in conversation, partly in the way of irony, partly of mockery, in a delicate style, to act the sophist, and thus to destroy -almost all serious discussion. This kind of speech he seemed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[247]</a></span> +almost all serious discussion. This kind of speech he seemed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_247">[247]</a></span> peculiarly fond of using towards Wilhelm, particularly when the latter took a fancy, as often happened, for introducing any of his general and theoretical disquisitions. Yet still they liked well to be together: @@ -10306,7 +10290,7 @@ and most satisfactory illustrations, and thus to instruct his audience while he made them merry.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIX.</h3> <p>While our friend was in this way living very happily, Melina and the @@ -10326,7 +10310,7 @@ his actors, and strengthened their certainty of hitting the proper point. And as a person of slender but correct understanding may produce more agreeable effect on others than a perplexed and unpurified genius, he would frequently exalt men of mediocre talents, by the clear views -which he imperceptibly afforded them, to a wonderful extent of power.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[248]</a></span> +which he imperceptibly afforded them, to a wonderful extent of power.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_248">[248]</a></span> Nor was it an unimportant item in his scheme, that he likewise had poems read before him in their meetings; for by these he nourished in his people the feeling of that charm which a well-pronounced rhythm is @@ -10368,7 +10352,7 @@ your penetration?"</p> <p>"These," said Serlo, "by diligence, practice, and reflection, we shall soon make strong points. Though you are yet but freshmen and bunglers, there is not one among you that does not warrant expectation more or -less: for, so far as I can judge, no stick, properly so called, is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span> +less: for, so far as I can judge, no stick, properly so called, is<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_249">[249]</a></span> to be met with in the company; and your stick is the only person that can never be improved, never bent or guided, whether it be self-conceit, stupidity, or hypochondria, that renders him unpliant."</p> @@ -10408,7 +10392,7 @@ a wish to trade, to gather, to possess; whilst it is thy inmost want that has created, that has nourished, the desire still further to unfold and perfect what endowments soever for the beautiful and good, be they mental or bodily, may lie within thee. And ought I not to honor Fate, -which, without furtherance of mine, has led me hither to the goal of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[250]</a></span> +which, without furtherance of mine, has led me hither to the goal of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_250">[250]</a></span> all my wishes? Has not all that I, in old times, meditated and forecast, now happened accidentally, and without my co-operation? Singular enough! We seem to be so intimate with nothing as we are with our own wishes and @@ -10439,14 +10423,14 @@ ceased to waver to the one and to the other side, when he went, as he was wont, to see his friend Aurelia.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XX.</h3> <p>She was lying on the sofa: she seemed quiet. "Do you think you will be fit to act to-morrow?" he inquired. "Oh, yes!" cried she with vivacity: "you know there is nothing to prevent me. If I but knew a way," continued she, "to rid myself of those applauses! The people mean it -well, but they will kill me. Last night I thought my very heart would<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[251]</a></span> +well, but they will kill me. Last night I thought my very heart would<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_251">[251]</a></span> break! Once, when I used to please myself, I could endure this gladly: when I had studied long, and well prepared myself, it gave me joy to hear the sound, 'It has succeeded!' pealing back to me from every @@ -10489,7 +10473,7 @@ blessedness, which a pure and kindly heart creates, there is not any thing more heavenly than the soul of a woman giving herself to the man she loves!</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[252]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_252">[252]</a></span></p> <p>"We are cold, proud, high, clear-sighted, wise, while we deserve the name of women; and all these qualities we lay down at your feet, the @@ -10533,7 +10517,7 @@ thoughtless gallantry, with false asseverations, with cajoling oaths, to wheedle favor from her?"</p> <p>"I can," said Wilhelm, "and indeed without much vanity: my life has -been so simple and sequestered, I have had but few enticements to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[253]</a></span> +been so simple and sequestered, I have had but few enticements to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_253">[253]</a></span> attempt such things. And what a warning, my beautiful, my noble, friend, is this melancholy state in which I see you! Accept of me a vow, which is suited to my heart; which, under the emotion you have caused me, has @@ -10574,13 +10558,13 @@ He asked, once or twice, "Aurelia, how could you hurt your friend?"</p> <p>"Hush!" replied she, laying her finger on her mouth: "Hush!"</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[254]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_254">[254]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> -<h2><a name="BOOK_V" id="BOOK_V"></a>BOOK V.</h2> +<hr class="hr2" > +<h2><a id="BOOK_V"></a>BOOK V.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> <p>Thus Wilhelm, to his pair of former wounds, which were yet scarcely @@ -10613,7 +10597,7 @@ spirit, come to help him. The two children talked together, and amused each other in the prettiest style. She taught him little songs; and he, having an excellent memory, frequently recited them, to the surprise of those about him. She attempted also to explain her maps to him. With -these she was still very busy, though she did not seem to take the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[255]</a></span> +these she was still very busy, though she did not seem to take the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_255">[255]</a></span> fittest method. For, in studying countries, she appeared to care little about any other point than whether they were cold or warm. Of the north and south poles, of the horrid ice which reigns there, and of the @@ -10653,7 +10637,7 @@ insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason," he would add, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." With such a turn of thought in Serlo, which in some degree was natural to him, the persons who frequented his society could scarcely -be in want of pleasant conversation.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[256]</a></span></p> +be in want of pleasant conversation.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_256">[256]</a></span></p> <p>It was in the midst of these instructive entertainments, that Wilhelm one day received a letter sealed in black. Werner's hand betokened @@ -10693,7 +10677,7 @@ memorable thought he should meet with in reading or in conversation. He accordingly recorded his own or other men's opinions, nay, wrote whole dialogues, when they chanced to interest him. But unhappily by this means he held fast the false no less firmly than the true; he dwelt far -too long on one idea, particularly when it was of an aphoristic<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[257]</a></span> +too long on one idea, particularly when it was of an aphoristic<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_257">[257]</a></span> shape; and thus he left his natural mode of thought and action, and frequently took foreign lights for his loadstars. Aurelia's bitterness, and Laertes's cold contempt for men, warped his judgment oftener than @@ -10728,11 +10712,11 @@ shall omit the introduction, and give the rest of it with little alteration.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER II.</h3> <p>"It was, therefore, and it always must be, right for every one, on any -opportunity, to follow his vocation and exhibit his activity.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[258]</a></span> +opportunity, to follow his vocation and exhibit his activity.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_258">[258]</a></span> Scarcely had the good old man been gone a quarter of an hour, when every thing in the house began moving by a different plan than his. Friends, acquaintances, relations, crowded forward, especially all sorts of @@ -10773,7 +10757,7 @@ able to put a cradle down: but, in return, the room we shall have out of doors will be the more abundant. Coffee-houses and clubs for the husband, walks and drives for the wife, and pleasant country jaunts for both. But the chief advantage in our plan is, that, the round table -being now completely filled, our father cannot ask his friends to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[259]</a></span> +being now completely filled, our father cannot ask his friends to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_259">[259]</a></span> dinner, who, the more he strove to entertain them, used to laugh at him the more.</p> @@ -10815,7 +10799,7 @@ of purchasing a large estate, at present under sequestration, in a very fruitful district. For paying it, we mean to use the money realized by the sale of the house; another portion we shall borrow; a portion may remain unpaid. And we count on thee for going thither, and superintending -the improvement of it; by which means, before many years are passed,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[260]</a></span> +the improvement of it; by which means, before many years are passed,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_260">[260]</a></span> the land, to speak in moderation, will have risen above a third in value. We shall then bring it to the market again, seek out a larger piece, improve and trade as formerly. For all this thou art the man. Our @@ -10829,7 +10813,7 @@ world as thou pleasest: a judicious person finds his best instruction in his travels. Farewell! I rejoice at being connected with thee so closely by relation, and now united with thee in the spirit of activity."</p> -<hr class="hr" /> +<hr class="hr" > <p>Well as this letter might be penned, and full of economical truths as it was, Wilhelm felt displeased with it for more than one reason. The @@ -10847,7 +10831,7 @@ light to Werner; and in this manner he produced an answer, which also we insert.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> <p>"Thy letter is so well written, and so prudently and wisely conceived, @@ -10855,7 +10839,7 @@ that no objection can be made to it. Only thou must pardon me, when I declare that one may think, maintain, and do directly the reverse, and yet be in the right as well as thou. Thy mode of being and imagining appears to turn on boundless acquisition, and a light, mirthful manner -of enjoyment: I need scarcely tell thee, that in all this I find<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[261]</a></span> +of enjoyment: I need scarcely tell thee, that in all this I find<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_261">[261]</a></span> little that can charm me.</p> <p>"First, however, I am sorry to admit, that my journal is none of mine. @@ -10895,7 +10879,7 @@ the more cultivated his movements, the more sonorous his voice, the more staid and measured his whole being is, the more perfect is he. If to high and low, to friends and relations, he continues still the same, then nothing can be said against him, none may wish him otherwise. His -coldness must be reckoned clearness of head, his dissimulation<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[262]</a></span> +coldness must be reckoned clearness of head, his dissimulation<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_262">[262]</a></span> prudence. If he can rule himself externally at every moment of his life, no man has aught more to demand of him; and, whatever else there may be in him or about him, capacities, talents, wealth, all seem gifts of @@ -10937,7 +10921,7 @@ embarrassment, and can bear myself in very tolerable style. My speech and voice I have likewise been attending to; and I may say, without much vanity, that in society I do not cause displeasure. But I will not conceal from thee, that my inclination to become a public person, and to -please and influence in a larger circle, is daily growing more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[263]</a></span> +please and influence in a larger circle, is daily growing more<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_263">[263]</a></span> insuperable. With this, there is combined my love for poetry and all that is related to it; and the necessity I feel to cultivate my mental faculties and tastes, that so, in this enjoyment henceforth @@ -10959,7 +10943,7 @@ fortune is in good hands: on that subject I shall not disturb myself. What I need I will, as occasion calls, require from thee: it will not be much, for I hope my art will be sufficient to maintain me."</p> -<hr class="hr" /> +<hr class="hr" > <p>Scarcely was the letter sent away, when our friend made good his words. To the great surprise of Serlo and the rest, he at once declared that he @@ -10976,7 +10960,7 @@ her. Meanwhile the contracts had been written out, and were now a-signing. At the moment when our friend was subscribing his assumed designation, by some inexplicable concatenation of ideas, there arose before his mind's eye the image of that green in the forest where he lay -wounded in Philina's lap. The lovely Amazon came riding on her gray<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[264]</a></span> +wounded in Philina's lap. The lovely Amazon came riding on her gray<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_264">[264]</a></span> palfrey from the bushes of the wood: she approached him and dismounted. Her humane anxiety made her come and go: at length she stood before him. The white surtout fell down from her shoulders: her countenance, her @@ -10987,7 +10971,7 @@ holding by his arm, and had softly tried to stop him, and pull back his hand.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3> <p>One of the conditions under which our friend had gone upon the stage was @@ -11014,7 +10998,7 @@ would not hear of it. "It is not chaff and wheat together," said he: "it is a trunk with boughs, twigs, leaves, buds, blossoms, and fruit. Is not the one there with the others, and by means of them?" To which Serlo would reply, that people did not bring a whole tree upon the table; that -the artist was required to present his guests with silver apples in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[265]</a></span> +the artist was required to present his guests with silver apples in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_265">[265]</a></span> platters of silver. They exhausted their invention in similitudes, and their opinions seemed still farther to diverge.</p> @@ -11041,7 +11025,7 @@ we are to play, and play, and constantly give novelties. Ought we not to profit by our privilege, then, since we accomplish just as much by mutilated works as by entire ones? It is the public itself that grants the privilege. Few Germans, perhaps few men of any modern nation, have a -proper sense of an ćsthetic whole:—they praise and blame by +proper sense of an æsthetic whole:—they praise and blame by passages; they are charmed by passages; and who has greater reason to rejoice at this than actors, since the stage is ever but a patched and piece-work matter?"</p> @@ -11056,7 +11040,7 @@ once more the many conversations they had had together about "Hamlet," and himself to invent some means of properly re-forming the piece.</p> <p>After a few days, which he had spent alone, our friend returned with a -cheerful look. "I am much mistaken," cried he, "if I have not now<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[266]</a></span> +cheerful look. "I am much mistaken," cried he, "if I have not now<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_266">[266]</a></span> discovered how the whole is to be managed: nay, I am convinced that Shakspeare himself would have arranged it so, had not his mind been too exclusively directed to the ruling interest, and perhaps misled by the @@ -11096,7 +11080,7 @@ Hamlet's wish to go thither, the journey of Laertes to France, his return, the despatch of Hamlet into England, his capture by pirates, the death of the two courtiers by the letter which they carried. All these circumstances and events would be very fit for expanding and lengthening -a novel; but here they injure exceedingly the unity of the piece,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[267]</a></span> +a novel; but here they injure exceedingly the unity of the piece,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_267">[267]</a></span> particularly as the hero has no plan, and are, in consequence, entirely out of place."</p> @@ -11138,7 +11122,7 @@ the rest he will <i>see</i>; the rest takes place before him; whereas, his imagination, on the other plan, was hunted over all the world."</p> <p>"You easily perceive," said Wilhelm, "how I shall contrive to keep the -other parts together. When Hamlet tells Horatio of his uncle's crime,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[268]</a></span> +other parts together. When Hamlet tells Horatio of his uncle's crime,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_268">[268]</a></span> Horatio counsels him to go to Norway in his company, to secure the affections of the army, and return in warlike force. Hamlet also is becoming dangerous to the King and Queen; they find no readier method of @@ -11160,7 +11144,7 @@ force; and Hamlet, while dying, gives his vote to Horatio."</p> my entire approbation; only let not your zeal evaporate."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> <p>Wilhelm had already been for some time busied with translating "Hamlet;" @@ -11178,7 +11162,7 @@ original.</p> declared themselves exceedingly contented with it: Serlo, in particular, made many flattering observations.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[269]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_269">[269]</a></span></p> <p>"You have felt very justly," said he, among other things, "that some external circumstances must accompany this play, but that they must be @@ -11221,7 +11205,7 @@ discover Shakspeare's greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this allness and emptiness, this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity,—how can they be -expressed by a single man? There ought to be at least a dozen of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[270]</a></span> +expressed by a single man? There ought to be at least a dozen of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_270">[270]</a></span> these people, if they could be had; for it is only in society that they are any thing; they are society itself; and Shakspeare showed no little wisdom and discernment in bringing in a pair of them. Besides, I need @@ -11268,7 +11252,7 @@ beauty.</p> such pretty manufacture, in their proper time and place, when"—</p> <p>Philina took her slippers from his hands, crying, "You have squeezed -them all! They are far too wide for me!" She played with them, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[271]</a></span> +them all! They are far too wide for me!" She played with them, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_271">[271]</a></span> rubbed the soles of them together. "How hot it is!" cried she, clapping the sole upon her cheek, then again rubbing, and holding it to Serlo. He was innocent enough to stretch out his hand to feel the warmth. "Clip! @@ -11284,7 +11268,7 @@ and Aurelia, inwardly indignant at such rioting, arose in great vexation.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3> <p>Though in this remoulding of "Hamlet" many characters had been cut off, @@ -11309,7 +11293,7 @@ for word, and I played happily. Yet he has some peculiarities which would make another in his place quite useless. For example, he takes such an interest in the plays, that, in giving any moving passage, he does not indeed declaim it, but he reads it with all pomp and pathos. -By this ill habit he has nonplussed me on more than one occasion."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[272]</a></span></p> +By this ill habit he has nonplussed me on more than one occasion."<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_272">[272]</a></span></p> <p>"As with another of his singularities," observed Aurelia, "he once left me sticking fast in a very dangerous passage."</p> @@ -11354,7 +11338,7 @@ scene becomes a prelude to that other, where, in the <i>second</i> place, the little play produces such effect upon the King. Hamlet sees himself reproved and put to shame by the player, who feels so deep a sympathy in foreign and fictitious woes; and the thought of making an experiment -upon the conscience of his stepfather is in consequence suggested to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[273]</a></span> +upon the conscience of his stepfather is in consequence suggested to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_273">[273]</a></span> him. What a royal monologue is that, which ends the second act! How charming it will be to speak it!</p> @@ -11405,7 +11389,7 @@ it, and at last declared, with a thoughtful look, that it seemed a matter of some moment; that they must consider well and seriously whether they could risk it. They talked the subject over at some length; Aurelia was silent, only smiling now and then; and a few days after, -when speaking of the incident again, she gave our friend, not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[274]</a></span> +when speaking of the incident again, she gave our friend, not<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_274">[274]</a></span> obscurely, to understand that she held it all a joke of Serlo's. She desired him to cast away anxiety, and to expect the Ghost with patience.</p> @@ -11447,7 +11431,7 @@ shall not want."</p> share, I am certain, that the wish to act the character of Hamlet has led me exceedingly astray, throughout my study of the play. And now, the more I look into the part, the more clearly do I see, that, in my whole -form and physiognomy, there is not one feature such as Shakspeare<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[275]</a></span> +form and physiognomy, there is not one feature such as Shakspeare<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_275">[275]</a></span> meant for Hamlet. When I consider with what nicety the various circumstances are adapted to each other, I can scarcely hope to produce even a tolerable effect."</p> @@ -11481,7 +11465,7 @@ author is of less importance to us than our own enjoyment, and we need a charm that is adapted for us."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3> <p>One evening a dispute arose among our friends about the novel and the @@ -11489,7 +11473,7 @@ drama, and which of them deserved the preference. Serlo said it was a fruitless and misunderstood debate: both might be superior in their kinds, only each must keep within the limits proper to it.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[276]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_276">[276]</a></span></p> <p>"About their limits and their kinds," said Wilhelm, "I confess myself not altogether clear."</p> @@ -11536,7 +11520,7 @@ guiltless that was unconcerned with him.</p> <p>These considerations led them back to the play of "Hamlet," and the peculiarities of its composition. The hero in this case, it was -observed, is endowed more properly with sentiments than with a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[277]</a></span> +observed, is endowed more properly with sentiments than with a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_277">[277]</a></span> character: it is events alone that push him on, and accordingly the play has in some measure the expansion of a novel. But as it is Fate that draws the plan, as the story issues from a deed of terror, and the hero @@ -11577,7 +11561,7 @@ motion the imaginations of men, gladly as they listen to your tales and fictions, it is yet very seldom that you find among them any touch of an imagination you can call productive. In actors this remark is strikingly exemplified. Any one of them is well content to undertake a beautiful, -praiseworthy, brilliant part; and seldom will any one of them do more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[278]</a></span> +praiseworthy, brilliant part; and seldom will any one of them do more<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_278">[278]</a></span> than self-complacently transport himself into his hero's place, without in the smallest troubling his head whether other people view him so or not. But to seize with vivacity what the author's feeling was in @@ -11602,7 +11586,7 @@ any one to make pretensions to the spirit of a thing, while the sense and letter of it are not ready and clear to him."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> <p>Coming to the first stage-rehearsal very early, Wilhelm found himself @@ -11615,7 +11599,7 @@ happy interview. The peasants' cottages resembled one another on the two stages, as they did in nature: the true morning sun, beaming through a half-closed window-shutter, fell upon a part of a bench ill joined to a cottage door; but unhappily it did not now enlighten Mariana's waist and -bosom. He sat down, reflecting on this strange coincidence: he almost<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[279]</a></span> +bosom. He sat down, reflecting on this strange coincidence: he almost<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_279">[279]</a></span> thought that perhaps on this very spot he would soon see her again. And, alas! the truth was nothing more, than that an afterpiece, to which this scene belonged, was at that time very often played upon the German @@ -11656,7 +11640,7 @@ for the German theatre.</p> <p>The presence of these persons was of great service during the rehearsals. In particular they labored to convince our players, that, -throughout the whole of their preparations, the posture and action,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[280]</a></span> +throughout the whole of their preparations, the posture and action,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_280">[280]</a></span> as they were intended ultimately to appear, should always be combined with the words, and thus the whole be mechanically united by habit. In rehearsing a tragedy especially, they said, no common movement with the @@ -11697,7 +11681,7 @@ of Wilhelm. By him they were requested to sit down in the remotest corners of the house, and, every time they did not hear him perfectly, to rap on the bench with a key. He articulated well, spoke out in a measured manner, raised his tones gradually, and did not overcry -himself in the most vehement passages. The rapping of the key was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[281]</a></span> +himself in the most vehement passages. The rapping of the key was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_281">[281]</a></span> heard less and less every new rehearsal: by and by the rest submitted to the same operation, and at last it seemed rational to hope that the piece would be heard by every one in all the nooks of the house.</p> @@ -11709,7 +11693,7 @@ man who aims at effecting something to admit the primary conditions under which alone his enterprise is possible.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3> <p>The necessary preparations for scenery and dresses, and whatever else @@ -11736,7 +11720,7 @@ I could wish that the figure held its right hand in a commanding attitude, were somewhat turned away, and, as it were, looked over its shoulder, that so it might perfectly resemble the Ghost at the moment when he issues from the door. It will produce a great effect, when at -this instant Hamlet looks upon the Ghost, and the Queen upon the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[282]</a></span> +this instant Hamlet looks upon the Ghost, and the Queen upon the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_282">[282]</a></span> picture. The stepfather may be painted in royal ornaments, but not so striking."</p> @@ -11780,10 +11764,10 @@ at present; but, perhaps, at some future time we may submit this altered "Hamlet" itself to such of our readers as feel any interest in the subject.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[283]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_283">[283]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER X.</h3> <p>The main rehearsal was at length concluded: it had lasted very long. @@ -11826,7 +11810,7 @@ consultations with her cooks and servants has the lady of the house submitted to! Observe with what indifference the people swallow the production of the distant vintager, the seaman, and the vintner, as if it were a thing of course. And ought these men to cease from laboring, -providing, and preparing; ought the master of the house to cease from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[284]</a></span> +providing, and preparing; ought the master of the house to cease from<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_284">[284]</a></span> purchasing and laying up the fruit of their exertions,—because at last the enjoyment it affords is transitory? But no enjoyment can be transitory; the impression which it leaves is permanent: and what is @@ -11885,7 +11869,7 @@ struck up a song, with a very graceful, pleasing tune:—</p> <span class="i3">All so gentle by your side;</span> </div> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[285]</a></span> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_285">[285]</a></span> <span class="i2">When the nightingale to lovers</span> <span class="i3">Lovingly her songlet sings,</span> <span class="i2">Which for exiles and sad rovers</span> @@ -11938,7 +11922,7 @@ upbringing is to blame: to her natural character I would do justice."</p> character? O you men! It is so like you! These are the women you deserve!"</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[286]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_286">[286]</a></span></p> <p>"My friend, can you suspect me?" answered Wilhelm. "I will give account of every minute I have spent beside her."</p> @@ -11987,9 +11971,9 @@ room to-night."</p> <p>With great surprise, he found his bed unoccupied; the sheets and pillows in the sleekest rest. He looked around: he searched and searched, but -found no traces of the rouge. Behind the bed, the stove, the drawers, +found no traces of the rogue. Behind the bed, the stove, the drawers, there was nothing to be seen: he sought with great and greater -diligence; a spiteful looker-on might have believed that he was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[287]</a></span> +diligence; a spiteful looker-on might have believed that he was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_287">[287]</a></span> seeking in the hope of finding.</p> <p>All thought of sleep was gone. He put the slippers on his table; went @@ -12005,7 +11989,7 @@ cried he: "still in bed? Impossible! I want you in the theatre: we have a thousand things to do."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XI.</h3> <p>The forenoon and the afternoon fled rapidly away. The playhouse was @@ -12029,7 +12013,7 @@ Ghost!"</p> it would come or not. His anxiety on that head was at length removed, and now some strange assistant was to be expected. The stage-manager came in, inquiring after various matters: Wilhelm had not time to ask -about the Ghost; he hastened to present himself before the throne,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[288]</a></span> +about the Ghost; he hastened to present himself before the throne,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_288">[288]</a></span> where King and Queen, surrounded with their court, were already glancing in all the splendors of royalty, and waiting till the scene in front of them should be concluded. He caught the last words of Horatio, who was @@ -12077,7 +12061,7 @@ with horror:—</p> </div> </div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[289]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_289">[289]</a></span></p> <p>A deep effect was visible in the audience. The Ghost beckoned, the Prince followed him amid the loudest plaudits.</p> @@ -12118,10 +12102,10 @@ spectators a profound impression.</p> prospered; the audience manifested their contentment, and the actors seemed to rise in heart and spirits every scene.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[290]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_290">[290]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XII.</h3> <p>The curtain fell, and rapturous applauses sounded out of every corner of @@ -12163,7 +12147,7 @@ nobody was discontented with himself or with his place.</p> <p>Our two theatric amateurs, who had from the first been present, now increased the pleasure of the meeting. While the exhibition was proceeding, they had several times stepped round, and come upon the -stage, expressing, in the warmest terms, the delight which they and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[291]</a></span> +stage, expressing, in the warmest terms, the delight which they and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_291">[291]</a></span> the audience felt. They now descended to particulars, and each was richly rewarded for his efforts.</p> @@ -12205,7 +12189,7 @@ in memory: he promised to insert it in his manuscript.</p> the children and the harper were absent. Erelong they made their entrance, and were blithely welcomed by the company. They came in together, very strangely decked: Felix was beating a triangle, Mignon a -tambourine; the old man had his large harp hung round his neck, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[292]</a></span> +tambourine; the old man had his large harp hung round his neck, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_292">[292]</a></span> was playing on it whilst he carried it before him. They marched round and round the table, and sang a multitude of songs. Eatables were handed them; and the guests seemed to think they could not do a greater @@ -12246,8 +12230,8 @@ gayety: the company, much as they had laughed at her at first, were in fine obliged to curb her. But persuasion was of small avail; for she now sprang up, and raved, and shook her tambourine, and capered round the table. With her hair flying out behind her, with her head thrown back, -and her limbs, as it were, cast into the air, she seemed like one of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[293]</a></span> -those antique Mćnads, whose wild and all but impossible positions still, +and her limbs, as it were, cast into the air, she seemed like one of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_293">[293]</a></span> +those antique Mænads, whose wild and all but impossible positions still, on classic monuments, often strike us with amazement.</p> <p>Incited by the talents and the uproar of the children, each endeavored @@ -12288,10 +12272,10 @@ hovering there: he sat up that he might address the Spectre; but he felt himself encircled with soft arms, and his mouth was shut with kisses, which he had not force to push away.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[294]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_294">[294]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIII.</h3> <p>Next morning Wilhelm started up with an unpleasant feeling, and found @@ -12332,7 +12316,7 @@ truth of the remark, that no one should begin with a festivity any situation that is meant to last, particularly that is meant to be a trade, a mode of living. Festivities are fit for what is happily concluded: at the commencement, they but waste the force and zeal which -should inspire us in the struggle, and support us through a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[295]</a></span> +should inspire us in the struggle, and support us through a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_295">[295]</a></span> long-continued labor. Of all festivities, the marriage festival appears the most unsuitable: calmness, humility, and silent hope befit no ceremony more than this.</p> @@ -12374,7 +12358,7 @@ Wilhelm's arms.</p> <p>"Save the child!" cried she, "and we will mind the rest."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[296]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_296">[296]</a></span></p> <p>Wilhelm did not look upon the danger as so great: his first thought was, to penetrate to the source of the fire, and try to stifle it before it @@ -12415,7 +12399,7 @@ either him or Mignon.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the fire had fiercely seized on several houses: it was now enlightening all the neighborhood. Wilhelm looked at the child in the red glare of the flames: he could find no wound, no blood, no hurt of -any kind. He groped over all the little creature's body, but the boy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[297]</a></span> +any kind. He groped over all the little creature's body, but the boy<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_297">[297]</a></span> gave no sign of pain: on the contrary, he by degrees grew calm, and began to wonder at the blazing houses, and express his pleasure at the spectacle of beams and rafters burning all in order, like a grand @@ -12458,7 +12442,7 @@ took the young ones to the rubbish of the prostrate building, where, among the ashes and the embers, they found a very grateful warmth.</p> <p>The opening day collected, by degrees, the various individuals of the -party. All of them had got away unhurt: no one had lost much.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[298]</a></span> +party. All of them had got away unhurt: no one had lost much.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_298">[298]</a></span> Wilhelm's trunk was saved among the rest.</p> <p>Towards ten o'clock Serlo called them to rehearse their "Hamlet," at @@ -12491,10 +12475,10 @@ other hand, recommended lowliness of mind to him; saying, she would now and then powder the sleeves of his coat, that he might remember that unhappy night in the castle, and wear his crown with meekness.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[299]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_299">[299]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XIV.</h3> <p>Our friends had sought out other lodgings, on the spur of the moment, @@ -12535,7 +12519,7 @@ that, and had crept along beneath the roofs before it burst into activity.</p> <p>Seated in a grove, our friend was meditating all these things, when he -heard a low footfall in a neighboring walk. By the melancholy song<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[300]</a></span> +heard a low footfall in a neighboring walk. By the melancholy song<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_300">[300]</a></span> which arose along with it, he recognized the harper. He caught the words of the song without difficulty: it turned on the consolations of a miserable man, conscious of being on the borders of insanity. Unhappily @@ -12543,14 +12527,14 @@ our friend forgot the whole of it except the last verse:—</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> - <span class="i2">"Wheresoe'er my steps may lead me,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Meekly at the door I'll stay:</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Pious hands will come to feed me,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">And I'll wander on my way.</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Each will feel a touch of gladness</span><br /> - <span class="i2">When my aged form appears:</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Each will shed a tear of sadness,</span><br /> - <span class="i2">Though I reck not of his tears."</span><br /> + <span class="i2">"Wheresoe'er my steps may lead me,</span><br > + <span class="i2">Meekly at the door I'll stay:</span><br > + <span class="i2">Pious hands will come to feed me,</span><br > + <span class="i2">And I'll wander on my way.</span><br > + <span class="i2">Each will feel a touch of gladness</span><br > + <span class="i2">When my aged form appears:</span><br > + <span class="i2">Each will shed a tear of sadness,</span><br > + <span class="i2">Though I reck not of his tears."</span><br > </div> </div> @@ -12569,7 +12553,7 @@ with repeating unconnected thoughts and dolorous emotions, we had rather pass in silence than detail at large.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XV.</h3> <p>Undetermined what to do with this unhappy man, who displayed such @@ -12579,7 +12563,7 @@ from his uncertainty. Laertes, as usual, rambling everywhere about the town, had happened, in some coffee-house, to meet with a man, who, a short time ago, had suffered under violent attacks of melancholy. This person, it appeared, had been intrusted to the care of some country -clergyman, who made it his peculiar business to attend to people<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[301]</a></span> +clergyman, who made it his peculiar business to attend to people<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_301">[301]</a></span> in such situations. In the present instance, as in many others, his treatment had succeeded: he was still in town, and the friends of the patient were showing him the greatest honor.</p> @@ -12625,7 +12609,7 @@ strap had peered out from below the Prince's waistcoat, whereby the illusion had been greatly marred.</p> <p>Meanwhile, in the interior of the company, a multitude of alterations -were occurring. Philina, since the evening subsequent to that of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[302]</a></span> +were occurring. Philina, since the evening subsequent to that of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_302">[302]</a></span> fire, had never given our friend the smallest sign of closer intimacy. She had, as it seemed on purpose, hired a remote lodging: she associated with Elmira, and came seldomer to Serlo,—an arrangement very @@ -12673,7 +12657,7 @@ a fourth. You might lead me through the whole calendar."</p> <p>"Well!" said Wilhelm: "Cecilia, then?"</p> -<p>"None of your Cecilias!"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[303]</a></span></p> +<p>"None of your Cecilias!"<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_303">[303]</a></span></p> <p>"Henrietta?"</p> @@ -12719,7 +12703,7 @@ obliged to yield, and leave the chamber and the house.</p> <p>With what feelings Wilhelm passed the night is easy to conceive. How slowly the hours of the day flowed on, while he sat expecting a message -from Philina, may also be imagined. Unhappily he had to play that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[304]</a></span> +from Philina, may also be imagined. Unhappily he had to play that<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_304">[304]</a></span> evening: such mental pain he had never endured. The moment his part was done, he hastened to Philina's house, without inquiring whether he had got her leave or not. He found her doors bolted: and the people of the @@ -12755,10 +12739,10 @@ to Wilhelm where and how he found them. That very hour he mounted horse, pursuing this ambiguous pair; by which exertions, Wilhelm was in some degree at least, composed.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[305]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_305">[305]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER XVI.</h3> <p>The departure of Philina did not make a deep sensation, either in the @@ -12799,7 +12783,7 @@ boundless arena for the whole of nature; yet neither manager nor actor need attempt contracting it, until the taste of the nation shall itself mark out the proper circle. Every good society submits to certain conditions and restrictions; so also must every good theatre. Certain -manners, certain modes of speech, certain objects, and fashions of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[306]</a></span> +manners, certain modes of speech, certain objects, and fashions of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_306">[306]</a></span> proceeding, must altogether be excluded. You do not grow poorer by limiting your household expenditure."</p> @@ -12840,7 +12824,7 @@ it. <i>Perfide</i> means faithless with pleasure, with insolence and malice. How enviable is the culture of a nation that can figure out so many shades of meaning by a single word! French is exactly the language of the world,—worthy to become the universal language, that all may -have it in their power to cheat and cozen and betray each other! His<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[307]</a></span> +have it in their power to cheat and cozen and betray each other! His<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_307">[307]</a></span> French letters were always smooth and pleasant, while you read them. If you chose to believe it, they sounded warmly, even passionately; but, if you examined narrowly, they were but phrases,—accursed phrases! He @@ -12880,7 +12864,7 @@ united.</p> first appeared. She had always skilfully contrived to entertain the manager, and keep the others in good humor. She had endured Aurelia's violence with amazing patience, and her dearest task had been to flatter -Wilhelm. Thus she was, in some respects, a bond of union for the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[308]</a></span> +Wilhelm. Thus she was, in some respects, a bond of union for the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_308">[308]</a></span> whole: the loss of her was quickly felt.</p> <p>Serlo could not live without some little passion of the love sort. @@ -12921,7 +12905,7 @@ to favor talents which are new, though far inferior; it makes excessive requisitions of the former, and accepts of any thing with approbation from the latter.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[309]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_309">[309]</a></span></p> <p>Serlo and Aurelia had opportunity enough to meditate on this peculiarity. The strangers, especially the young and handsome ones, had @@ -12963,7 +12947,7 @@ returned not, sent no tidings; and Wilhelm feared that his Mariana was lost to him a second time.</p> <p>About this period, there occurred a public mourning, which obliged our -friends to shut their theatre for several weeks. Wilhelm seized this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[310]</a></span> +friends to shut their theatre for several weeks. Wilhelm seized this<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_310">[310]</a></span> opportunity to pay a visit to the clergyman with whom the harper had been placed to board. He found him in a pleasant district; and the first thing that he noticed in the parsonage was the old man teaching a boy to @@ -13001,7 +12985,7 @@ a weighty point; for nothing more exposes us to madness than distinguishing ourselves from others, and nothing more contributes to maintain our common sense than living in the universal way with multitudes of men. Alas! how much there is in education, in our social -institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity!"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[311]</a></span></p> +institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity!"<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_311">[311]</a></span></p> <p>Wilhelm staid some days with this intelligent divine; heard from him many curious narratives, not of the insane alone, but of persons such as @@ -13043,7 +13027,7 @@ chamber; thinks he sees his spirit; and from that time falls into a melancholy temper, firmly believing that his death is near.</p> <p>"He has now abandoned himself to men who pamper him with religious -ideas; and I see not how he is to be prevented from going among the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[312]</a></span> +ideas; and I see not how he is to be prevented from going among the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_312">[312]</a></span> Hernhuters with his lady, and, as he has no children, from depriving his relations of the chief part of his fortune."</p> @@ -13086,7 +13070,7 @@ that he might, if possible, do something for Aurelia, whom our friend had left in rather dangerous circumstances.</p> <p>In fact, they found her worse than they expected. She was afflicted with -a sort of intermittent fever, which could the less be mastered, as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[313]</a></span> +a sort of intermittent fever, which could the less be mastered, as<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_313">[313]</a></span> she purposely maintained and aggravated the attacks of it. The stranger was not introduced as a physician: he behaved with great courteousness and prudence. They conversed about her situation, bodily and mental: her @@ -13126,7 +13110,7 @@ mistresses or otherwise, might have incurred.</p> <p>Melina, who was charged with managing the wardrobe, had all the while been silently considering these things, with the cold, spiteful temper -peculiar to him. On occasion of our friend's departure, and Aurelia's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[314]</a></span> +peculiar to him. On occasion of our friend's departure, and Aurelia's<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_314">[314]</a></span> increasing sickness, he contrived to signify to Serlo, that more money might be raised and less expended, and, consequently, something be laid up, or at least a merrier life be led. Serlo hearkened gladly to such @@ -13166,7 +13150,7 @@ wish to be delivered from those persons who at present hindered them. Melina took occasion to lament Aurelia's weak health, and the speedy end which it threatened; thinking all the while directly the reverse. Serlo affected to regret that Wilhelm could not sing, thus signifying that his -presence was by no means indispensable. Melina then came forward with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[315]</a></span> +presence was by no means indispensable. Melina then came forward with<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_315">[315]</a></span> a whole catalogue of savings, which, he said, might be effected; and Serlo saw in him his brother-in-law replaced threefold. They both felt that secrecy was necessary in the matter, but this mutual obligation @@ -13207,7 +13191,7 @@ undignified and vulgar. You are never to forget yourself; are to keep a constant watch upon yourself and others; to forgive nothing that is faulty in your own conduct, in that of others neither to forgive too little nor too much. Nothing must appear to touch you, nothing to -agitate: you must never overhaste yourself, must ever keep yourself<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[316]</a></span> +agitate: you must never overhaste yourself, must ever keep yourself<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_316">[316]</a></span> composed, retaining still an outward calmness, whatever storms may rage within. The noble character at certain moments may resign himself to his emotions; the well-bred never. The latter is like a man dressed out in @@ -13247,7 +13231,7 @@ many individuals of which the history of her fatal passion was more or less completely known. He had spoken bitterly and fiercely; grinding with his teeth and stamping with his feet, as was his custom when enraged. "Never mind her," cried he, when he saw her in the chair, -surrounded by the rest: "she will go upon the stage stark-naked one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[317]</a></span> +surrounded by the rest: "she will go upon the stage stark-naked one<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_317">[317]</a></span> of these days, and then the approbation will be perfect."</p> <p>"Ungrateful, inhuman man!" exclaimed she: "soon shall I be carried naked @@ -13289,7 +13273,7 @@ distressed about her death; to assure him that she had forgiven him, and wished him every kind of happiness.</p> <p>From this time she was very quiet, and appeared to occupy herself -with but a few ideas, which she endeavored to extract and appropriate<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[318]</a></span> +with but a few ideas, which she endeavored to extract and appropriate<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_318">[318]</a></span> from the manuscript, out of which she frequently made Wilhelm read to her. The decay of her strength was not perceptible: nor had Wilhelm been anticipating the event, when one morning, as he went to visit her, he @@ -13331,7 +13315,7 @@ creature, and he gave it her: the neckerchief she had already. On the other hand, she put the veil of Hamlet's Ghost into his travelling-bag; though he told her it could not be of any service to him.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[319]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_319">[319]</a></span></p> <p>Melina took upon him the directorship: his wife engaged to keep a mother's eye upon the children, whom Wilhelm parted with unwillingly. @@ -13369,14 +13353,14 @@ prevented us from inserting sooner:—</p> </div> </div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[320]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_320">[320]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> -<h2><a name="BOOK_VI" id="BOOK_VI"></a>BOOK VI.</h2> +<hr class="hr2" > +<h2><a id="BOOK_VI"></a>BOOK VI.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CONFESSIONS OF A FAIR SAINT.</h3> <p>Till my eighth year I was always a healthy child, but of that period I @@ -13409,7 +13393,7 @@ laid upon the sick-bed of the little one; the birds and animals he killed in hunting were shown to me, before they passed into the kitchen; and, that the Prince of the World might also have a voice in this assembly, my aunt related to me love-adventures out of fairy-tales. All -was accepted, all took root. There were hours in which I vividly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[321]</a></span> +was accepted, all took root. There were hours in which I vividly<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_321">[321]</a></span> conversed with the Invisible Power. I can still repeat some verses which I then dictated, and my mother wrote down.</p> @@ -13451,7 +13435,7 @@ persecutions of the first Christians, decorated with the charms of a romance, awoke the deepest interest in me.</p> <p>But my mother now began to murmur at my constant reading; and, to -humor her, my father took away my books to-day, but gave them back<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[322]</a></span> +humor her, my father took away my books to-day, but gave them back<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_322">[322]</a></span> to-morrow. She was wise enough to see that nothing could be done in this way: she next insisted merely that my Bible should be read with equal diligence. To this I was not disinclined, and I accordingly perused the @@ -13493,7 +13477,7 @@ and female, and giving them a ball. This event gave dancing quite another charm for me.</p> <p>Amid a throng of boys and girls, the most remarkable were two sons of -the marshal of the court. The youngest was of my age; the other, two<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[323]</a></span> +the marshal of the court. The youngest was of my age; the other, two<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_323">[323]</a></span> years older: they were children of such beauty, that, according to the universal voice, no one had seen their like. For my part, scarcely had I noticed them when I lost sight of all the other crowd. From that moment @@ -13532,7 +13516,7 @@ noisy pleasures. I was solitary, I was moved; and thoughts of God again occurred to me. He was again my confidant; and I well remember with what tears I often prayed for this poor boy, who still continued sickly.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[324]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_324">[324]</a></span></p> <p>The more childishness there was in this adventure, the more did it contribute to the forming of my heart. Our French teacher had now turned @@ -13554,7 +13538,7 @@ composed: I tried to justify my nymph, and said, with glowing cheeks, "But, sir, Phyllis is an honorable girl."</p> <p>He was rogue enough to banter me about my honorable heroine. While we -were speaking French, he played upon the word <i>honnęte</i>, and hunted the +were speaking French, he played upon the word <i>honnĂŞte</i>, and hunted the honorableness of Phyllis over all its meanings. I felt the ridicule of this, and extremely puzzled. He, not to frighten me, broke off, but afterwards often led the conversation to such topics. Plays, and little @@ -13575,7 +13559,7 @@ in the liveliest motion: my curiosity had copious nourishment. There were plays and balls, with all their usual accompaniments; and, though my parents kept retired as much as possible, they were obliged to show themselves at court, where I was of course introduced. Strangers were -pouring in from every side; high company was in every house; even to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[325]</a></span> +pouring in from every side; high company was in every house; even to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_325">[325]</a></span> us some cavaliers were recommended, others introduced; and, at my uncle's, men of every nation might be met with.</p> @@ -13618,7 +13602,7 @@ touch their cups or glasses,—even the chairs they had been sitting on. Thus, morally and physically, I remained apart from them: all the compliments they paid me I haughtily accepted, as incense that was due.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[326]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_326">[326]</a></span></p> <p>Among the strangers then resident among us was one young man peculiarly distinguished, whom we used in sport to call Narciss. He had gained a @@ -13659,7 +13643,7 @@ book, but this we had to keep as secret as forbidden love. Learned women had been made ridiculous, nor were well-informed women tolerated,—apparently because it would have been uncivil to put so many ill-informed men to shame. Even my father, much as he delighted in -this new opportunity of cultivating my mind, expressly stipulated<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[327]</a></span> +this new opportunity of cultivating my mind, expressly stipulated<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_327">[327]</a></span> that our literary commerce should remain secret.</p> <p>Thus our intercourse continued for almost year and day; and still I @@ -13699,7 +13683,7 @@ his frantic enemy, I shut the door and bolted it.</p> <p>Neither of us considered the wound serious, for a slight cut across the hand was all we saw. Soon, however, I discovered that there was a stream -of blood running down his back, that there was a deep wound on the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[328]</a></span> +of blood running down his back, that there was a deep wound on the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_328">[328]</a></span> head. I now began to be afraid. I hastened to the lobby, to get help: but I could see no person; every one had staid below to calm the raving captain. At last a daughter of the family came skipping up: her mirth @@ -13739,7 +13723,7 @@ fright, at the wounds of their friend, at the captain's madness, at the whole occurrence. A very little would have made my father send the captain a challenge, that he might avenge his friend without delay. He blamed the gentlemen that had been there, because they had not punished -on the spot such a murderous attempt; for it was but too clear, that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[329]</a></span> +on the spot such a murderous attempt; for it was but too clear, that<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_329">[329]</a></span> the captain, instantly on striking, had drawn his sword, and wounded the other from behind. The cut across the hand had been given just when Narciss himself was grasping at his sword. I felt unspeakably affected, @@ -13779,7 +13763,7 @@ combined with what my mother had disclosed to me, and constantly my head was full of fancies. The whole city talked of the occurrence. With me they spoke of it in a peculiar tone: they drew inferences, which, greatly as I struggled to avoid them, touched me very close. What had -formerly been habitude and trifling, was now grown seriousness and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[330]</a></span> +formerly been habitude and trifling, was now grown seriousness and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_330">[330]</a></span> inclination. The anxiety in which I lived was the more violent, the more carefully I studied to conceal it from every one. The idea of losing him frightened me: the possibility of any closer union made me tremble. For @@ -13824,7 +13808,7 @@ reckoned I had done my duty.</p> figure of my soul. But, to change and purify my feelings, preparations were already made.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[331]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_331">[331]</a></span></p> <p>The spring came on: Narciss once visited me unannounced, and at a time when I happened to be quite alone. He now appeared in the character of @@ -13867,7 +13851,7 @@ willingly receives instruction when he offers it, but she endeavors to elicit more and more from him. Love makes much that was impossible possible. By degrees, too, that subjection, so necessary and so graceful for the female sex, begins: the bridegroom does not govern like the -husband; he only asks: but his mistress seeks to discover what he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[332]</a></span> +husband; he only asks: but his mistress seeks to discover what he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_332">[332]</a></span> wants, and to offer it before he asks it.</p> <p>So did experience teach me what I would not for much have missed. I was @@ -13908,7 +13892,7 @@ but the wish to please him: if I knew that he was not to see me, I could spend no care upon it. I liked to dance; but, if he was not beside me, it seemed as if I could not bear the motion. At a brilliant festival, if he was not invited, I could neither take the trouble of providing new -things, nor of putting on the old according to the mode. To me they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[333]</a></span> +things, nor of putting on the old according to the mode. To me they<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_333">[333]</a></span> were alike agreeable, or rather, I might say, alike burdensome. I used to reckon such an evening very fairly spent when I could join myself to any ancient card-party, though formerly I had not the smallest taste for @@ -13953,7 +13937,7 @@ uncertain precept, "That a lady ought to keep the knowledge she might have more secret than the Calvinist his creed in Catholic countries." And while I, by natural consequence, endeavored not to show myself more wise or learned than formerly before the world, Narciss himself was -commonly the first who yielded to the vanity of speaking about me<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[334]</a></span> +commonly the first who yielded to the vanity of speaking about me<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_334">[334]</a></span> and my superiorities.</p> <p>A nobleman of high repute, and at that time valued for his influence, @@ -13995,7 +13979,7 @@ spring was over. The summer came, and all grew drier and more earnest.</p> <p>By several unexpected deaths, some offices fell vacant, which Narciss might make pretensions to. The instant was at hand when my whole destiny must be decided; and while Narciss, and all our friends, were making -every effort to efface some impressions which obstructed him at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[335]</a></span> +every effort to efface some impressions which obstructed him at<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_335">[335]</a></span> court, and to obtain for him the wished-for situation, I turned with my request to my Invisible Friend. I was received so kindly, that I gladly came again. I confessed, without disguise, my wish that Narciss might @@ -14036,7 +14020,7 @@ might have ended the investigation sooner, for it was not long till I had got upon the proper trace; but I would not confess it, and I sought a thousand outlets.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[336]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_336">[336]</a></span></p> <p>I very soon discovered that the straight direction of my soul was marred by foolish dissipations, and employment with unworthy things. The how @@ -14078,7 +14062,7 @@ penetrated me through and through.</p> one or two remarks on what was then taking place within me? What could it be which so changed my tastes and feelings, that, in my twenty-second year, nay, earlier, I lost all relish for the recreations with which -people of that age are harmlessly delighted? Why were they not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[337]</a></span> +people of that age are harmlessly delighted? Why were they not<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_337">[337]</a></span> harmless for me? I may answer, "Just because they were not harmless; because I was not, like others of my years, unacquainted with my soul." No! I knew, from experiences which had reached me unsought, that there @@ -14119,7 +14103,7 @@ atmosphere directed.</p> <p>Unhappily it cooled very much. Narciss drew back, and began to assume a distant air: this was at his option, but my thermometer descended as he -drew back. Our family observed this, questioned me, and seemed to be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[338]</a></span> +drew back. Our family observed this, questioned me, and seemed to be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_338">[338]</a></span> surprised. I explained to them, with stout defiance, that heretofore I had made abundant sacrifices; that I was ready, still farther and to the end of my life, to share all crosses that befell him; but that I @@ -14157,7 +14141,7 @@ her, when I say that she had no character, and the most limited ideas.</p> often, with me on the matter: his arguments were rational; and, being <i>his</i> arguments, they could not be impugned. It was only the deep feeling of my right that gave me strength to dispute against him. But -the scenes soon changed: I was forced to make appeal to his heart.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[339]</a></span> +the scenes soon changed: I was forced to make appeal to his heart.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_339">[339]</a></span> Straitened by his understanding, I came out with the most pathetic pleadings. I gave free course to my tongue and to my tears. I showed him how much I loved Narciss; how much constraint I had for two years been @@ -14197,7 +14181,7 @@ the present instance. I got a long, and, as it seemed to me, pitiful, reply, in vague style and unmeaning phrases, stating, that, without a better place, he could not fix himself, and offer me his hand; that I best knew how hard it had fared with him hitherto; that as he was -afraid lest a fruitless intercourse, so long continued, might<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[340]</a></span> +afraid lest a fruitless intercourse, so long continued, might<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_340">[340]</a></span> prove hurtful to my reputation, I would give him leave to continue at his present distance; so soon as it was in his power to make me happy, he would look upon the word which he had given me as sacred.</p> @@ -14238,7 +14222,7 @@ play, that in the fair garden tedium might not overtake me. And now, as I did not conceal my piety, I likewise took heart to own my love for the sciences and arts. I drew, painted, read, and found enough of people to support me: instead of the great world, which I had left, or, rather, -which had left me, a smaller one formed itself about me, which was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[341]</a></span> +which had left me, a smaller one formed itself about me, which was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_341">[341]</a></span> infinitely richer and more entertaining. I had a turn for social life; and I do not deny, that, on giving up my old acquaintances, I trembled at the thought of solitude. I now found myself abundantly, perhaps @@ -14279,7 +14263,7 @@ relatives; so he needed no foreign increase: whereas my father, with his moderate fortune, was bound to his place by the consideration of his salary.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342" id="Page_342">[342]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_342">[342]</a></span></p> <p>My uncle had become still more unbending from domestic sufferings. He had early lost an amiable wife and a hopeful son; and, from that time, @@ -14322,7 +14306,7 @@ delightful to be thwarted by a passion which her own understanding disapproved; she mustered force to give it up.</p> <p>On her ceasing to resist the gentle guidance of my uncle, the -foundation of his plan was quickly laid. She was appointed maid of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_343" id="Page_343">[343]</a></span> +foundation of his plan was quickly laid. She was appointed maid of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_343">[343]</a></span> honor at a neighboring court, where he could commit her to the oversight and the instructions of a lady, his friend, who presided there as governess with great applause. I accompanied her to the place of her new @@ -14364,7 +14348,7 @@ bound me to the world, and I was convinced that here the true good was never to be found; so I waited in the cheerfullest and meekest state: and, after having abdicated life, I was retained in it.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_344" id="Page_344">[344]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_344">[344]</a></span></p> <p>A new trial was awaiting me: my mother took a painful and oppressive ailment, which she had to bear five years, before she paid the debt of @@ -14384,7 +14368,7 @@ of them hard to an extreme degree.</p> path of fantasy or truth; whether I had merely thought as others showed me, or the object of my trust had a reality. To my unspeakable support, I always found the latter. The straight direction of my heart to God, the -fellowship of the "Beloved Ones."<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> I had sought and found; and this +fellowship of the "Beloved Ones."<a id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> I had sought and found; and this was what made all things light to me. As a traveller in the dark, my soul, when all was pressing on me from without, hastened to the place of refuge; and never did it return empty.</p> @@ -14405,7 +14389,7 @@ a thousand little incidents in combination proved, as clearly as the drawing of my breath proved me to be living, that I was not without God in the world. He was near to me: I was before him. This is what, with a diligent avoidance of all theological systematic terms, I can with the -greatest truth declare.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_345" id="Page_345">[345]</a></span></p> +greatest truth declare.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_345">[345]</a></span></p> <p>Much do I wish, that, in those times too, I had been entirely without system. But which of us arrives early at the happiness of being @@ -14446,7 +14430,7 @@ death-bed of my beloved mother. I was frank enough, on this occasion, not to hide my comfortable frame of mind from certain pious but rigorously orthodox people; and I had to suffer many a friendly admonition on that score. They reckoned they were just in season, -for explaining with what earnestness one should be diligent to lay<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_346" id="Page_346">[346]</a></span> +for explaining with what earnestness one should be diligent to lay<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_346">[346]</a></span> a right foundation in the days of health and youth.</p> <p>In earnestness I, too, determined not to fail. For the moment I @@ -14488,7 +14472,7 @@ from enough.</p> <p>I could not always live in solitude, though in it I found the best preservative against the dissipation of my thoughts. On returning to the -tumult, the impression it produced upon me was the deeper for my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347">[347]</a></span> +tumult, the impression it produced upon me was the deeper for my<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_347">[347]</a></span> previous loneliness. My most peculiar advantage lay in this, that love for quiet was my ruling passion, and that in the end I still drew back to it. I perceived, as in a kind of twilight, my weakness and my misery, @@ -14531,7 +14515,7 @@ from of old, to give a reason for my views and conduct; but in this case my conviction would not follow. I prayed to God, that here, as elsewhere, he would warn, restrain, and guide me; and, as my heart on this did not dissuade me, I went forward on my way with comfort. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348">[348]</a></span></p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_348">[348]</a></span></p> <p>Philo, on the whole, had a remote resemblance to Narciss: only a pious education had more enlivened and concentrated his feelings. He had less @@ -14573,7 +14557,7 @@ manner. And yet I knew not evil; I but feared it: I felt that I might be guilty, and could not accuse myself of being so.</p> <p>Deeply as I was convinced that such a temperament of soul, as I now saw -mine to be, could never be adapted for that union with the invisible<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_349" id="Page_349">[349]</a></span> +mine to be, could never be adapted for that union with the invisible<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_349">[349]</a></span> Being which I hoped for after death, I did not, in the smallest, fear that I should finally be separated from him. With all the wickedness which I discovered in my heart, I still loved <i>Him</i>: I hated what I @@ -14617,7 +14601,7 @@ The questions, What does it mean? How is it to be? were day and night working out their answers in me. At last I thought I saw, as by a gleam of light, that what I sought was to be found in the incarnation of the everlasting Word, by whom all things, even we ourselves, were made. That -the Eternal descended as an inhabitant to the depths in which we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_350" id="Page_350">[350]</a></span> +the Eternal descended as an inhabitant to the depths in which we<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_350">[350]</a></span> dwell, which he surveys and comprehends; that he passed through our lot from stage to stage, from conception and birth to the grave; that by this marvellous circuit he again mounted to those shining heights, @@ -14661,7 +14645,7 @@ to some object as our imagination gives us when it paints the features of an absent lover.</p> <p>When the first rapture was over, I observed that my present condition -of mind had formerly been known to me; only I had never felt it in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_351" id="Page_351">[351]</a></span> +of mind had formerly been known to me; only I had never felt it in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_351">[351]</a></span> such strength; I had never held it fast, never made it mine. I believe, indeed, every human soul at intervals feels something of it. Doubtless it is this which teaches every mortal that there is a God.</p> @@ -14702,7 +14686,7 @@ sound of the Sunday bells was the only thing that rendered me impatient on a sick-bed. Our head court-chaplain, a gifted man, I heard with great pleasure; his colleagues, too, I liked: and I could pick the golden apple of the Word from the common fruit, with which on earthen platters -it was mingled. With public ordinances, all sorts of private<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_352" id="Page_352">[352]</a></span> +it was mingled. With public ordinances, all sorts of private<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_352">[352]</a></span> exercises were combined; and these, too, only nourished fancy and a finer kind of sense. I was so accustomed to this track, I reverenced it so much, that even now no higher one occurred to me. For my soul has @@ -14743,7 +14727,7 @@ I did so, notwithstanding there was something in my heart which earnestly dissuaded me.</p> <p>I circumstantially related to him all the story; and as he was himself a -leading person in it, and my narrative conveyed the sharpest reprimand<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[353]</a></span> +leading person in it, and my narrative conveyed the sharpest reprimand<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_353">[353]</a></span> on him, he felt surprised and moved to an extreme degree. He melted into tears. I rejoiced; believing that, in his mind also, a full and fundamental change had taken place.</p> @@ -14784,7 +14768,7 @@ gentleman, residing in a distant quarter, and had long continued in unbroken correspondence with him, as with one who truly sought God. How painful was it to the spiritual leader, when this gentleman subsequently joined himself to the Community of Herrnhut, where he lived for a long -while! How delightful, on the other hand, when at length he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[354]</a></span> +while! How delightful, on the other hand, when at length he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_354">[354]</a></span> quarrelled with the brethren, determined to settle in our neighborhood, and seemed once more to yield himself completely to the guidance of his ancient friend!</p> @@ -14826,7 +14810,7 @@ with our gentleman apostle, and by degrees with all the body. I visited their meetings when I could: with my social disposition, it was quite delightful for me to communicate to others, and to hear from them, the feelings which, till now, I had conceived and harbored by myself. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[355]</a></span></p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_355">[355]</a></span></p> <p>But I was not so completely taken with my friends, as not to see that few of them could really feel the sense of those affecting words and @@ -14867,7 +14851,7 @@ form, had almost sacrificed their most substantial duties.</p> <p>Far as the worthy clergyman might, in the present case, be wrong; much as others tried to irritate me at him,—I could never hesitate to give him my sincere respect. I knew him well: I could candidly transport -myself into his way of looking at these matters. I have never seen a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[356]</a></span> +myself into his way of looking at these matters. I have never seen a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_356">[356]</a></span> man without his weaknesses: only in distinguished men they strike us more. We wish, and will at all rates have it, that persons privileged as they are should at the same time pay no tribute, no tax whatever. I @@ -14907,7 +14891,7 @@ be seen.</p> <p>The wedding itself was managed in a striking way: an exquisite strain of vocal music came upon us by surprise, and the clergyman went through the ceremony with a singular solemnity. I was standing by Philo at the time; -and, instead of a congratulation, he whispered in my ear, "When I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[357]</a></span> +and, instead of a congratulation, he whispered in my ear, "When I<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_357">[357]</a></span> saw your sister give away her hand, I felt as if a stream of boiling water had been poured over me."—"Why so?" I inquired. "It is always the way with me," said he, "when I see two people joined." I @@ -14951,7 +14935,7 @@ noise.</p> <p>By this happy order, the space we lived in appeared to be a little world: and yet, considered narrowly, the castle was not large; without -an accurate knowledge of it, and without the spirit of its owner,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[358]</a></span> +an accurate knowledge of it, and without the spirit of its owner,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_358">[358]</a></span> it would have been impossible to entertain so many people here, and quarter each according to his humor.</p> @@ -14992,7 +14976,7 @@ Maker. Hence, in our idea of man, there can be no inconsistency with our idea of God; and if we often feel a certain disagreement with him and remoteness from him, it is but the more on that account our duty, not like advocates of the wicked Spirit, to keep our eyes continually upon -the nakedness and weakness of our nature, but rather to seek out<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[359]</a></span> +the nakedness and weakness of our nature, but rather to seek out<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_359">[359]</a></span> every property and beauty by which our pretension to a similarity with the Divinity may be made good."</p> @@ -15031,7 +15015,7 @@ is the next consideration with me. Believe me, love, most part of all the misery and mischief, of all that is denominated evil in the world, arises from the fact, that men are too remiss to get a proper knowledge of their aims, and, when they do know them, to work intensely in -attaining them. They seem to me like people who have taken up a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[360]</a></span> +attaining them. They seem to me like people who have taken up a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_360">[360]</a></span> notion that they must and will erect a tower, and who yet expend on the foundation not more stones and labor than would be sufficient for a hut. If you, my friend, whose highest want it was to perfect and unfold your @@ -15071,7 +15055,7 @@ himself by some regular exertion of his powers.</p> <p>"Certainly," pursued he, "without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet, among the people whom we name cultivated men, little earnestness is to be found: in labors and employments, in arts, nay, -even in recreations, they proceed, if I may say so, with a sort of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[361]</a></span> +even in recreations, they proceed, if I may say so, with a sort of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_361">[361]</a></span> self-defence; they live, as they read a heap of newspapers, only to have done with it; they remind one of that young Englishman at Rome, who said, with a contented air one evening in some company, that to-day he @@ -15111,7 +15095,7 @@ the finger of the Deity in nature: why not likewise pay some small regard to the hand of his imitator?" He then led my observation to some unobtrusive figures; endeavoring to make me understand that it was the history of art alone which could give us an idea of the worth and -dignity of any work of art; that we should know the weary steps of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[362]</a></span> +dignity of any work of art; that we should know the weary steps of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_362">[362]</a></span> mere handicraft and mechanism, over which the man of talents has struggled in the course of centuries, before we can conceive how it is possible for the man of genius to move with airy freedom on the pinnacle @@ -15154,7 +15138,7 @@ was a physician and a naturalist: he seemed rather one of the <i>Penates</i> than of the inmates. He showed us the museum, which, like the library, was fixed in glass cases to the walls of the chambers, adorning and ennobling the space, which it did not crowd. On this occasion I recalled -with joy the days of my youth, and showed my father many of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[363]</a></span> +with joy the days of my youth, and showed my father many of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_363">[363]</a></span> things he had been wont to lay upon the sick-bed of his little child, just opening its little eyes to look into the world then. At the same time the physician, in our present and following conversations, did @@ -15194,7 +15178,7 @@ were lately signifying a desire to have repeated."</p> practice more expertness, was accordingly made to sing to us a series of four and of eight voiced melodies, which, if I may say so, gave a real foretaste of bliss. Till then I had only known the pious mode of -singing, as good souls practise it, frequently with hoarse pipes,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[364]</a></span> +singing, as good souls practise it, frequently with hoarse pipes,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_364">[364]</a></span> imagining, like wild birds, that they are praising God, while they procure a pleasant feeling to themselves. Or, perhaps, I had listened to the vain music of concerts, in which you are at best invited to @@ -15234,7 +15218,7 @@ attentively without being turned by it back upon myself. I was used to look at a picture or copper-plate merely as at the letters of a book. Fine printing pleases well, but who would read a book for the beauty of the printing? In like manner I required of each pictorial form that it -should tell me something, should instruct, affect, improve me; and,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[365]</a></span> +should tell me something, should instruct, affect, improve me; and,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_365">[365]</a></span> after all my uncle's letters to expound his works of art, say what he would, I continued in my former humor.</p> @@ -15278,7 +15262,7 @@ cheered him: at the christening, contrary to his custom, he seemed as if inspired; nay, I might say like a Genius with two faces. With the one, he looked joyfully forward to those regions which he soon hoped to enter; with the other, to the new, hopeful, earthly life which had -arisen in the boy descended from him. On our journey home he never<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[366]</a></span> +arisen in the boy descended from him. On our journey home he never<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_366">[366]</a></span> wearied talking to me of the child, its form, its health, and his wish that the gifts of this new denizen of earth might be rightly cultivated. His reflections on the subject lasted when we had arrived at home: it @@ -15321,7 +15305,7 @@ for my ignorance.</p> <p>One pleasure I could not deny myself: it was, as soon as might be, to renew and strengthen my connection with the Herrnhut Brethren. I hastened, accordingly, to visit one of their establishments at no great -distance; but here I by no means found what I had been anticipating.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[367]</a></span> +distance; but here I by no means found what I had been anticipating.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_367">[367]</a></span> I was frank enough to signify my disappointment, which they tried to soften by alleging that the present settlement was nothing to a full and fitly organized community. This I did not take upon me to deny; yet, in @@ -15364,7 +15348,7 @@ what follows likewise will go by; the body, too, will fall to pieces like a vesture; but I, the well-known I, I am.</p> <p>The thought is great, exalted, and consoling; yet an excellent friend, -with whom I every day became more intimate, instructed me to dwell<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[368]</a></span> +with whom I every day became more intimate, instructed me to dwell<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_368">[368]</a></span> on it as little as I could. This was the physician whom I met in my uncle's house, and who had since accurately informed himself about the temper of my body and my spirit. He showed me how much these feelings, @@ -15405,7 +15389,7 @@ I felt that, weakly as I was, I could not be of much, perhaps of any, service to the little ones; and I rejoiced the more on finding that my uncle, as indeed might have been looked for, had determined to devote his whole attention to the education of these amiable creatures. And -this they doubtless merited in every sense: they were handsome; and,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[369]</a></span> +this they doubtless merited in every sense: they were handsome; and,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_369">[369]</a></span> with great diversities, all promised to be well-conditioned, reasonable persons.</p> @@ -15444,7 +15428,7 @@ the gift to make a business of beneficence: I was not niggardly to the poor; nay, I often gave too largely for my means; yet this was little more than buying myself off: and a person needed to be made for me, if I was to bestow attention on him. Directly the reverse was the conduct of -my niece. I never saw her give a poor man money: whatever she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[370]</a></span> +my niece. I never saw her give a poor man money: whatever she<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_370">[370]</a></span> obtained from me for this purpose, she failed not in the first place to change for some necessary article. Never did she seem more lovely in my eyes, than when rummaging my clothes-presses: she was always sure to @@ -15489,7 +15473,7 @@ these children. He has them taught in various places: they are put to board now here, now there.</p> <p>At first I could perceive no plan whatever in this mode of education; -till at last our doctor told me the abbé had convinced my uncle,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[371]</a></span> +till at last our doctor told me the abbĂ© had convinced my uncle,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_371">[371]</a></span> that, in order to accomplish any thing by education, we must first become acquainted with the pupil's tendencies and wishes; that, these once ascertained, he ought to be transported to a situation where he @@ -15532,14 +15516,14 @@ danger I should ever become proud of what I myself can do or can forbear to do: I have seen too well what a monster might be formed and nursed in every human bosom, did not higher Influence restrain us.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[372]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_372">[372]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr3" /> -<h2><a name="BOOK_VII" id="BOOK_VII"></a>BOOK VII.</h2> +<hr class="hr3" > +<h2><a id="BOOK_VII"></a>BOOK VII.</h2> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER I.</h3> <p>Spring had come in all its brilliancy; a storm that had been lowering @@ -15574,7 +15558,7 @@ his hat, and showing him the tonsure. "Where is your company gone? Did you stay long with them?"</p> <p>"Longer than was good: on looking back upon the period which I -passed in their society, it seems as if I looked into an endless<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[373]</a></span> +passed in their society, it seems as if I looked into an endless<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_373">[373]</a></span> void; nothing of it has remained with me."</p> <p>"Here you are mistaken," said the stranger: "every thing that happens @@ -15617,7 +15601,7 @@ architectural beauty, appeared to have been sacrificed to the convenience of the interior. No trace of wall or trench was to be seen; none of avenues or artificial gardens. A fruit and pot-herb garden reached to the very buildings, and little patches of a like sort showed -themselves even in the intermediate spaces. A cheerful village lay<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[374]</a></span> +themselves even in the intermediate spaces. A cheerful village lay<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_374">[374]</a></span> at no great distance: the fields and gardens everywhere appeared in the highest state of cultivation.</p> @@ -15661,15 +15645,15 @@ beginning his address, when a tapestry-door of the cabinet opened, and the clergyman came in.</p> <p>"I have got the strangest message you can think of," cried Lothario -to him. "Pardon me," continued he, addressing Wilhelm, "if I am not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[375]</a></span> +to him. "Pardon me," continued he, addressing Wilhelm, "if I am not<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_375">[375]</a></span> in a mood for speaking further with you at this moment. You remain with -us to-night: you, abbé, see the stranger properly attended to."</p> +us to-night: you, abbĂ©, see the stranger properly attended to."</p> <p>With these words, he made his guest a bow: the clergyman took Wilhelm by the hand, who followed, not without reluctance.</p> <p>They walked along some curious passages in silence, and at last reached -a very pretty chamber. The abbé led him in, then left him, making no +a very pretty chamber. The abbĂ© led him in, then left him, making no excuses. Erelong an active boy appeared: he introduced himself as Wilhelm's valet, and brought up his supper. In waiting, he had much to say about the order of the house, about their breakfasting and dining, @@ -15700,7 +15684,7 @@ not recover his composure till slumber overpowered him.</p> <p>Strange dreams arose upon him towards morning. He was in a garden, which in boyhood he had often visited: he looked with pleasure at the -well-known alleys, hedges, flower-beds. Mariana met him: he spoke<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[376]</a></span> +well-known alleys, hedges, flower-beds. Mariana met him: he spoke<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_376">[376]</a></span> to her with love and tenderness, recollecting nothing of any by-gone grievance. Erelong his father joined them, in his week-day dress; with a look of frankness that was rare in him, he bade his son fetch two seats @@ -15738,7 +15722,7 @@ garden. He turned his steps to them, and, with his beautiful attendant, was moving through the garden, when suddenly the fair-haired Friedrich came across their path, and kept them back with loud laughter and a thousand tricks. Still, however, they insisted on proceeding; and -Friedrich hastened off, running towards Mariana and the father.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_377" id="Page_377">[377]</a></span> +Friedrich hastened off, running towards Mariana and the father.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_377">[377]</a></span> These seemed to flee before him; he pursued the faster, till Wilhelm saw them hovering down the alley almost as on wings. Nature and inclination called on him to go and help them, but the hand of the Amazon detained @@ -15746,11 +15730,11 @@ him. How gladly did he let himself be held! With this mingled feeling he awoke, and found his chamber shining with the morning beams.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER II.</h3> -<p>Our friend was called to breakfast by the boy: he found the abbé waiting -in the hall; Lothario, it appeared, had ridden out. The abbé was not +<p>Our friend was called to breakfast by the boy: he found the abbĂ© waiting +in the hall; Lothario, it appeared, had ridden out. The abbĂ© was not very talkative, but rather wore a thoughtful look: he inquired about Aurelia's death, and listened to our friend's recital of it with apparent sympathy. "Ah!" cried he, "the man that discerns, with lively @@ -15765,31 +15749,31 @@ beyond its worth."</p> <p>Scarcely had he spoken, when the door flew violently up: a young lady came rushing in; she pushed away the old servant, who attempted to -restrain her. She made right to the abbé, and seized him by the arm: +restrain her. She made right to the abbĂ©, and seized him by the arm: her tears and sobs would hardly let her speak these words: "Where is he? Where have you put him? 'Tis a frightful treachery! Confess it now! I know what you are doing: I will after him,—will know where you have sent him!"</p> -<p>"Be calm, my child," replied the abbé, with assumed composure; "come +<p>"Be calm, my child," replied the abbĂ©, with assumed composure; "come with me to your room: you shall know it all; only you must have the strength to listen, if you ask me to relate." He offered her his hand, as if he meant to lead her out. "I will not return to my room," cried she: "I hate the walls where you have kept me prisoner so long. I know -it already: the colonel has challenged him; he is gone to meet his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_378" id="Page_378">[378]</a></span> +it already: the colonel has challenged him; he is gone to meet his<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_378">[378]</a></span> enemy: perhaps this very moment he—once or twice I thought I heard the sound of shots! I tell you, order out a coach, and come along with me, or I will fill the house and all the village with my screaming."</p> -<p>Weeping bitterly, she hastened to the window: the abbé held her back, +<p>Weeping bitterly, she hastened to the window: the abbĂ© held her back, and sought in vain to soothe her.</p> <p>They heard a sound of wheels: she threw up the window, exclaiming, "He is dead! They are bringing home his body."—"He is coming out," -replied the abbé: "you perceive he lives."—"He is wounded," said +replied the abbĂ©: "you perceive he lives."—"He is wounded," said she wildly, "else he would have come on horseback. They are holding him! The wound is dangerous!" She ran to the door, and down the stairs: the -abbé hastened after her; and Wilhelm, following, observed the fair one +abbĂ© hastened after her; and Wilhelm, following, observed the fair one meet her lover, who had now dismounted.</p> <p>Lothario leaned on his attendant, whom Wilhelm at once knew as his @@ -15819,7 +15803,7 @@ and the hope, so long deferred, of again finding traces of the lovely Amazon, struck like a flame through all his soul.</p> <p>"Where did you get that pouch?" cried he. "To whom did it belong before -you? I beg of you, tell me."—"I bought it at an auction," said<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379">[379]</a></span> +you? I beg of you, tell me."—"I bought it at an auction," said<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_379">[379]</a></span> the other: "what is it to me whom it belonged to?" So speaking, he went out; and Jarno said, "If there would come but one word of truth from our young doctor's mouth!"—"Then, he did not buy the pouch?" said @@ -15830,7 +15814,7 @@ fared of late. Wilhelm sketched an outline of his history; and when he at last came to speak of Aurelia's death, and his message to the place, his auditor exclaimed, "Well! it is strange! most strange!"</p> -<p>The abbé entered from Lothario's chamber, beckoned Jarno to go in +<p>The abbĂ© entered from Lothario's chamber, beckoned Jarno to go in instead of him, and said to Wilhelm, "The baron bids me ask you to remain with us a day or two, to share his hospitality, and, in the present circumstances, contribute to his solacement. If you need to give @@ -15853,12 +15837,12 @@ himself come still worse off."</p> to it.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> <p>At times they had read a little to the patient: Wilhelm joyfully performed this service. Lydia stirred not from Lothario's bed: her care -for him absorbed her whole attention. But to-day the patient<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_380" id="Page_380">[380]</a></span> +for him absorbed her whole attention. But to-day the patient<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_380">[380]</a></span> himself seemed occupied with thought: he bade them lay aside their book. "To-day," said he, "I feel through my whole heart how foolishly we let our time pass on. How many things have I proposed to do, how many have I @@ -15901,7 +15885,7 @@ debt, and that the payment presses hard on you. My advice is, therefore, to postpone your plan till you are altogether free."</p> <p>"And in the mean while leave it at the mercy of a bullet, or the -fall of a tile, to annihilate the whole result of my existence and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_381" id="Page_381">[381]</a></span> +fall of a tile, to annihilate the whole result of my existence and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_381">[381]</a></span> activity! O my friend! it is ever thus: it is ever the besetting fault of cultivated men, that they wish to spend their whole resources on some idea, scarcely any part of them on tangible, existing objects. Why was @@ -15942,7 +15926,7 @@ In these days, I confess it, the image of the count is hovering constantly before me: I have firmly resolved on doing from conviction what a crazy fear is forcing upon him. I will not wait for being cured. Here are the papers: they require only to be properly drawn out. Take -the lawyer with you; our guest will help: what I want, you know as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_382" id="Page_382">[382]</a></span> +the lawyer with you; our guest will help: what I want, you know as<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_382">[382]</a></span> well as I; recovering or dying. I will stand by it, and say, <i>Here or nowhere is Herrnhut</i>!"</p> @@ -15990,7 +15974,7 @@ pushed aside; stupidity is but pernicious, they can let it stay. Well, be it so! I need to live: I will by and by communicate my plans to you; if you incline, you shall partake in them. But tell me first how things have gone with you. I see, I feel, that you are changed. How is it with -your ancient maggot of producing something beautiful and good<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[383]</a></span> +your ancient maggot of producing something beautiful and good<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_383">[383]</a></span> in the society of gypsies?"</p> <p>"Do not speak of it!" cried Wilhelm: "I have been already punished @@ -16030,7 +16014,7 @@ to the theatre in such a heinous light. I pardon, in the player, every fault that springs from self-deception and the desire to please. If he seem not something to himself and others, he is nothing. To seem is his vocation; he must prize his moment of applause, for he gets no other -recompense; he must try to glitter,—he is there to do so."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_384" id="Page_384">[384]</a></span></p> +recompense; he must try to glitter,—he is there to do so."<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_384">[384]</a></span></p> <p>"You will give me leave at least to smile, in my turn," answered Wilhelm. "I should never have believed that you could be so merciful, @@ -16059,7 +16043,7 @@ how to set about the task I know not. To-night I am looking for our old physician: we shall then take further counsel."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3> <p>The physician came: it was the good, old, little doctor whom we @@ -16070,7 +16054,7 @@ interview with Jarno, but they made no allusion to the subject of it when they came to supper.</p> <p>Wilhelm saluted him in the kindest manner, and inquired about the -harper. "We have still hopes of bringing round the hapless creature,"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_385" id="Page_385">[385]</a></span> +harper. "We have still hopes of bringing round the hapless creature,"<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_385">[385]</a></span> answered the physician. "He formed a dreary item in your limited and singular way of life," said Jarno. "How has it fared with him? Tell me."</p> @@ -16113,7 +16097,7 @@ the child?"</p> <p>"It is only by conjectures that we can approximate to any knowledge of his fate: to question him directly contradicts our principle. Observing -easily that he was of the Catholic religion, we thought perhaps<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_386" id="Page_386">[386]</a></span> +easily that he was of the Catholic religion, we thought perhaps<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_386">[386]</a></span> confession might afford him some assuagement; but he shrinks away with the strangest gestures every time we try to introduce the priest to him. However, not to leave your curiosity respecting him entirely @@ -16155,9 +16139,9 @@ and—Enough!" he added with a smile, after pausing for a moment, "our doctor expressly requires that she must quit us for a while. We have got her to believe that a lady, one of her most intimate friends, is at present in the neighborhood, wishing and expecting instantly to -see her. She has been prevailed upon to undertake a journey to our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_387" id="Page_387">[387]</a></span> +see her. She has been prevailed upon to undertake a journey to our<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_387">[387]</a></span> lawyer's, which is but two leagues off. This man is in the secret: he -will wofully lament that Fräulein Theresa should just have left him +will wofully lament that Fräulein Theresa should just have left him again; he will seem to think she may still be overtaken. Lydia will hasten after her, and, if you prosper, will be led from place to place. At last, if she insist on turning back, you must not contradict her; but @@ -16187,7 +16171,7 @@ sacrifice in helping him. I undertake the charge; though it is easy to foresee the pain I shall have to suffer, from the tears, from the despair, of Lydia."</p> -<p>"And, for this, no small reward awaits you," answered Jarno: "Fräulein +<p>"And, for this, no small reward awaits you," answered Jarno: "Fräulein Theresa, whom you get acquainted with, is a lady such as you will rarely see. She puts many a man to shame; I may say, she is a genuine Amazon: while others are but pretty counterfeits, that wander up and down the @@ -16198,7 +16182,7 @@ his Amazon again; especially as Jarno, whom he importuned to tell him more, broke off abruptly, and went away.</p> <p>The new, near hope of once more seeing that beloved and honored being -awoke a thousand feelings in his heart. He now looked upon the task<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_388" id="Page_388">[388]</a></span> +awoke a thousand feelings in his heart. He now looked upon the task<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_388">[388]</a></span> which had been given him as the intervention of a special Providence: the thought that he was minded treacherously to carry off a helpless girl from the object of her sincerest, warmest love dwelt but a moment @@ -16209,7 +16193,7 @@ to mount. "Salute your lord again for me," said she to the old servant: "tell him that I shall be home before night." Tears were standing in her eyes as she again looked back when the carriage started. She then turned round to Wilhelm, made an effort to compose herself, and said, "In -Fräulein Theresa you will find a very interesting person. I wonder what +Fräulein Theresa you will find a very interesting person. I wonder what it is that brings her hither; for, you must know, Lothario and she once passionately loved each other. In spite of the distance, he often used to visit her: I was staying with her then; I thought they would have @@ -16232,11 +16216,11 @@ bitterly reproaching myself that I could leave him for a single day."</p> <p>Wilhelm was proceeding to inquire about Theresa, when they reached the lawyer's house. This gentleman came forward to the coach, lamenting -wofully that Fräulein Theresa was already gone. He invited them to +wofully that Fräulein Theresa was already gone. He invited them to breakfast; signifying, however, that the lady might be overtaken in the nearest village. They determined upon following her: the coachman did not loiter; they had soon passed several villages, and yet come up -with nobody. Lydia now gave orders for returning: the coachman drove<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_389" id="Page_389">[389]</a></span> +with nobody. Lydia now gave orders for returning: the coachman drove<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_389">[389]</a></span> along, as if he did not understand her. As she insisted with redoubled vehemence, Wilhelm called to him, and gave the promised token. The coachman answered that it was not necessary to go back by the same road: @@ -16255,7 +16239,7 @@ carriage-door. Lydia looked at her with a stare of wonder, looked round, looked at her again, and fainted in the arms of Wilhelm.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER V.</h3> <p>Wilhelm was conducted to a little upper room: the house was new, @@ -16272,7 +16256,7 @@ paint still renders disagreeable: my little dwelling is but just made ready; you are handselling this room, which is appointed for my guests. Would that you had come on some more pleasant errand! Poor Lydia is like to be a dull companion: in other points, also, you will have much to -pardon. My cook has run away from me, at this unseasonable time; and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_390" id="Page_390">[390]</a></span> +pardon. My cook has run away from me, at this unseasonable time; and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_390">[390]</a></span> a serving-man has bruised his hand. The case might happen I had to manage every thing myself; and if it were so, why, then we should just put up with it. One is plagued so with nobody as with one's servants: @@ -16296,7 +16280,7 @@ no pretension to the friendship of that noble gentleman; on this occasion, I am but a guiltless instrument. I will not praise what I have done: it is enough that I could do it. It concerned the health, it concerned the life, of a man whom I value more than any one I ever knew -before. Oh, what a man is he, Fräulein! and what men are they that live +before. Oh, what a man is he, Fräulein! and what men are they that live about him! In their society, I for the first time, I may well say, carried on a conversation; for the first time, was the inmost sense of my words returned to me, more rich, more full, more comprehensive, from @@ -16313,7 +16297,7 @@ stranger tongue! We are never properly ourselves until another thinks entirely as we do. My own opinion of Lothario is perfectly the same as yours: it is not every one that does him justice, and therefore all that know him better are enthusiastic in esteem of him. The painful sentiment -that mingles with the memory of him in my heart cannot hinder me from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[391]</a></span> +that mingles with the memory of him in my heart cannot hinder me from<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_391">[391]</a></span> thinking of him daily." A sigh heaved her bosom as she spoke thus, and a lovely tear glittered in her right eye. "Think not," continued she, "that I am so weak, so easy to be moved. It is but the eye that weeps. @@ -16353,7 +16337,7 @@ here; I willingly assist in settling them."</p> Theresa kept instructing the steward; nothing so minute but she could give account of it: and Wilhelm had reason to wonder at her knowledge, her precision, the prompt dexterity with which she suggested means for -ends. She loitered nowhere, always hastened to the leading-points;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_392" id="Page_392">[392]</a></span> +ends. She loitered nowhere, always hastened to the leading-points;<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_392">[392]</a></span> and thus her task was quickly over. "Salute your master," said she, as she sent away the man: "I mean to visit him as soon as possible, and wish him a complete recovery. There, now," she added with a smile, as @@ -16393,10 +16377,10 @@ him! Yes, confess thy fear. When thou meetest with thy Amazon, this woman of women, in spite of all thy hopes and dreaming, thou wilt find her, in the end, to thy humiliation and thy shame,—his bride."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_393" id="Page_393">[393]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_393">[393]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3> <p>Wilhelm had passed a restless afternoon, not altogether without tedium, @@ -16438,7 +16422,7 @@ German maiden: listen to me patiently.</p> clear-sighted, active, able man; a tender father, an upright friend, an excellent economist. I knew but one fault in him: he was too compliant to a wife who did not know his worth. Alas that I should have to say so -of my mother! Her nature was the opposite of his. She was quick and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_394" id="Page_394">[394]</a></span> +of my mother! Her nature was the opposite of his. She was quick and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_394">[394]</a></span> changeful; without affection either for her home or for me, her only child; extravagant, but beautiful, sprightly, full of talent, the delight of a circle she had gathered round her. Her society, in truth, @@ -16475,7 +16459,7 @@ lovers, and shepherdesses of every kind were seized on by my mother. I cannot tell you how ridiculous it seemed to me to see the people, every one of whom I knew full well, standing on their scaffold, and pretending, after they had dressed themselves in other clothes, to pass -for something else than what they were. In my eyes they were never<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_395" id="Page_395">[395]</a></span> +for something else than what they were. In my eyes they were never<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_395">[395]</a></span> any thing but Lydia and my mother, this baron and that secretary, whether they appeared as counts and princes, or as peasants; and I could not understand how they meant to make me think that they were sad or @@ -16517,7 +16501,7 @@ things. I called for regularity from all the servants: I was bent on driving matters to extremity.</p> <p>"My mother had been rich before her marriage, yet she squandered more -than she had a right to; and this, as I observed, occasioned many<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_396" id="Page_396">[396]</a></span> +than she had a right to; and this, as I observed, occasioned many<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_396">[396]</a></span> conferences between my parents. For a long time the evil was not helped, till at last the passions of my mother brought it to a head.</p> @@ -16556,7 +16540,7 @@ incapable of motion; and a short time afterwards he died.</p> hid a treasure which he wished at death to leave me rather than my mother; I searched about for traces of it while he lived, but I could meet with none: at his death a seal was put on every thing. I wrote to -my mother, offering to continue in the house, and manage for her:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_397" id="Page_397">[397]</a></span> +my mother, offering to continue in the house, and manage for her:<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_397">[397]</a></span> she refused, and I was obliged to leave the place. A mutual testament was now produced: it gave my mother the possession and the use of all; and I was left, at least throughout her life, dependent on her. It was @@ -16596,7 +16580,7 @@ attracted his attention to her. Constantly engaged in something, I was seldom with the company: while he was there I did not talk so much as usual; for, I will confess it, lively conversation, from of old, had been to me the finest seasoning of existence. With my father I was wont -to talk of every thing that happened. What you do not speak of, you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_398" id="Page_398">[398]</a></span> +to talk of every thing that happened. What you do not speak of, you<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_398">[398]</a></span> will seldom accurately think of. No man had I ever heard with greater pleasure than I did Lothario, when he told us of his travels and campaigns. The world appeared to lie before him clear and open, as to me @@ -16635,7 +16619,7 @@ can our nearest aims be, but in the interior of our home? All those indispensable and still to be renewed supplies, where do we expect, do we require, to find them, if not in the place where we rise and where we go to sleep, where kitchen and cellar, and every species of -accommodation for ourselves and ours, is to be always ready? What<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_399" id="Page_399">[399]</a></span> +accommodation for ourselves and ours, is to be always ready? What<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_399">[399]</a></span> unvarying activity is needed to conduct this constantly recurring series in unbroken living order! How few are the men to whom it is given to return regularly like a star, to command their day as they command their @@ -16674,7 +16658,7 @@ of rank; she could not think of marriage; but she was unable to resist the dear delight of charming and of being charmed. I had never loved, nor did I love at present; but though it was unspeakably agreeable to see in what light my turn of mind was viewed, how high it was ranked by -such a man, I will confess I still was not altogether satisfied.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_400" id="Page_400">[400]</a></span> +such a man, I will confess I still was not altogether satisfied.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_400">[400]</a></span> I now wished that he should be acquainted with me, and should take a personal interest in me. This wish arose, without the smallest settled thought of any thing that could result from it.</p> @@ -16714,7 +16698,7 @@ satisfaction grew more perfect every moment. Happily, however, I merely wished that he should be acquainted with me, not that he should love me. We came home; and I observed, more clearly than before, that the attention he showed Lydia seemed expressive of a secret attachment. I -had reached my object, yet I was not at rest: from that day he showed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_401" id="Page_401">[401]</a></span> +had reached my object, yet I was not at rest: from that day he showed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_401">[401]</a></span> a true respect for me, a fine trust in me; in company he usually spoke to me, asked my opinion, and appeared to be persuaded, that, in household matters, nothing was unknown to me. His sympathy excited me @@ -16754,7 +16738,7 @@ I might expect a full, expanded, free, and profitable employment of my inborn tendency, of my talent perfected by practice. The sum of my existence seemed to have enlarged itself into infinitude. I gave my consent: he himself came, and spoke with me in private; he held out his -hand to me; he looked into my eyes, he clasped me in his arms, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_402" id="Page_402">[402]</a></span> +hand to me; he looked into my eyes, he clasped me in his arms, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_402">[402]</a></span> pressed a kiss upon my lips. It was the first and the last. He confided to me all his circumstances; told me how much his American campaign had cost him, what debts he had accumulated on his property: that, on this @@ -16795,7 +16779,7 @@ death snatched her from me. Lothario's love had cheered me at the time her death lay heavy on my spirits, and I wished to have the void which she had left me in her present filled by the picture of my friend.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_403" id="Page_403">[403]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_403">[403]</a></span></p> <p>"I ran to my chamber, fetched my jewel-box, and opened it in his presence. Scarcely had he looked into it, when he noticed a medallion @@ -16837,7 +16821,7 @@ such as promise to be lively, serviceable housewives I take charge of, she of such as show a finer and more quiet talent: it is right to provide for the happiness of future husbands, both in household and in intellectual matters. When you become acquainted with my noble friend, a -new era in your life will open. Her beauty, her goodness, make her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_404" id="Page_404">[404]</a></span> +new era in your life will open. Her beauty, her goodness, make her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_404">[404]</a></span> worthy of the reverence of the world." Wilhelm did not venture to confess, that unhappily the lovely countess was already known to him; that his transient connection with her would occasion him perpetual @@ -16878,7 +16862,7 @@ directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others, that man will scarcely learn it out of books, which generally do little more than give our errors names."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_405" id="Page_405">[405]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_405">[405]</a></span></p> <p>She left our friend alone: he passed his evening in examining the little library; it had, in truth, been gathered quite at random.</p> @@ -16921,7 +16905,7 @@ this before me, that, should accident embarrass me, on my own account or that of others, I will betake myself without the smallest hesitation to my generous friend."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_406" id="Page_406">[406]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_406">[406]</a></span></p> <p>There is nothing less liable to be concealed and unemployed than well-directed practical activity. Scarcely had she settled in her little @@ -16955,12 +16939,12 @@ obtain for him a parting word with Lydia. The impassioned girl at last consented: he said some kindly things to her, to which she answered, "The first burst of anguish I have conquered. Lothario will be ever dear to me: but for those friends of his, I know them; and it grieves me that -they are about him. The abbé, for a whim's sake, could leave a person in +they are about him. The abbĂ©, for a whim's sake, could leave a person in extreme need, or even plunge one into it; the doctor would have all things go on like clock-work; Jarno has no heart; and you—at least no force of character! Just go on: let these three people use you as their tool; they will have many an execution to commit to you. For a -long time, as I know well, my presence has been hateful to them. I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_407" id="Page_407">[407]</a></span> +long time, as I know well, my presence has been hateful to them. I<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_407">[407]</a></span> had not found out their secret, but I had observed that they had one. Why these bolted rooms, these strange passages? Why can no one ever reach the central tower? Why did they banish me, whenever they could, to @@ -16990,15 +16974,15 @@ under her direction; then he thought of himself, and felt what pleasure it would be to live beside a being so entirely serene and clear. As he approached Lothario's castle, he observed, with more than usual interest, the central tower and the many passages and side-buildings: he -resolved to question Jarno or the abbé on the subject, by the earliest +resolved to question Jarno or the abbĂ© on the subject, by the earliest opportunity.</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3> <p>On arriving at the castle, Wilhelm found its noble owner in the way of -full recovery: the doctor and the abbé had gone off; Jarno alone<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_408" id="Page_408">[408]</a></span> +full recovery: the doctor and the abbĂ© had gone off; Jarno alone<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_408">[408]</a></span> was there. It was not long till the patient now and then could ride, sometimes by himself, sometimes with his friends. His conversation was at once courteous and earnest, instructive and enlivening: you could @@ -17043,7 +17027,7 @@ children, some weeks ago, to pay a visit to her father."</p> <p>"I will not deny," replied Lothario, "that I wished to meet her. On coming near the house, I saw her father sitting at the door: a child of probably a year old was standing by him. As I approached, a female gave -a hasty look from an upper window; and a minute afterwards I heard<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_409" id="Page_409">[409]</a></span> +a hasty look from an upper window; and a minute afterwards I heard<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_409">[409]</a></span> some person tripping down-stairs. I thought surely it was she; and, I will confess, I was flattering myself that she had recognized me, and was hastening to meet me. But what was my surprise and disappointment, @@ -17080,7 +17064,7 @@ took the opportunity of asking where her other children were. 'It is not my child,' said she: 'that were rather early!' And at this moment it happened that the twigs were blown aside, and her face could be distinctly seen. I knew not what to make of the affair. It was my -mistress, and it was not. Almost younger, almost lovelier, than she<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_410" id="Page_410">[410]</a></span> +mistress, and it was not. Almost younger, almost lovelier, than she<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_410">[410]</a></span> used to be ten years before. 'Are not you the farmer's daughter?' inquired I, half confused. 'No,' said she: 'I am her cousin.'</p> @@ -17124,7 +17108,7 @@ will everywhere prepare his way for him; whose diligence takes up what his must leave; whose occupation spreads itself on every side, while his must travel forward on its single path. What a heaven had I figured for myself beside Theresa! Not the heaven of an enthusiastic bliss, but of a -sure life on earth; order in prosperity, courage in adversity, care<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_411" id="Page_411">[411]</a></span> +sure life on earth; order in prosperity, courage in adversity, care<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_411">[411]</a></span> for the smallest, and a spirit capable of comprehending and managing the greatest. Oh! I saw in her the qualities which, when developed, make such women as we find in history, whose excellence appears to us far @@ -17167,7 +17151,7 @@ acknowledge and receive him."</p> <p>"You mistake, my friend!" exclaimed Lothario; "Aurelia never had a son, at least by me: I know of no child, or I would with joy acknowledge it; and, even in the present case, I will gladly look upon the little -creature as a relic of her, and take charge of educating it. But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_412" id="Page_412">[412]</a></span> +creature as a relic of her, and take charge of educating it. But<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_412">[412]</a></span> did she ever give you to believe that the boy was hers, was mine?"</p> <p>"I cannot recollect that I ever heard a word from her expressly on the @@ -17214,7 +17198,7 @@ curiosity to see your quondam love."</p> <p>"Guessed!" replied Lothario.</p> -<p>"Let us hear," said Jarno, "how it went: I long to know."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_413" id="Page_413">[413]</a></span></p> +<p>"Let us hear," said Jarno, "how it went: I long to know."<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_413">[413]</a></span></p> <p>"I confess," replied Lothario, "the affair lay nearer my heart than it reasonably ought: so I formed the resolution of again riding out, and @@ -17252,11 +17236,11 @@ joy. How often have I wished to see you once more in my life! I have wished it in moments which I regarded as my last.' She said this with a settled voice, without appearance of emotion, with that natural air which of old delighted me so much. The cousin returned, the father with -her; and I leave you to conceive with what feelings I remained,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_414" id="Page_414">[414]</a></span> +her; and I leave you to conceive with what feelings I remained,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_414">[414]</a></span> and with what I came away."</p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3> <p>In his journey to the town, our friend was thinking of the lovely women @@ -17293,7 +17277,7 @@ you never feel what you have made us suffer! May the treasure which I now deliver you make you as happy as he made us wretched!"</p> <p>She arose to go away: Wilhelm held her fast. "I mean not to -escape you," said she: "let me fetch a paper that will make you<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_415" id="Page_415">[415]</a></span> +escape you," said she: "let me fetch a paper that will make you<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_415">[415]</a></span> glad and sorrowful."</p> <p>She retired, and Wilhelm gazed upon the child with a painful joy: he @@ -17342,7 +17326,7 @@ should have too much abuse to suffer from the company, for having formerly deceived them. Mignon will not betray us: she is good and close."</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_416" id="Page_416">[416]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_416">[416]</a></span></p> <p>"I have known it long, and I said nothing," answered Mignon. "How is it possible?" cried Barbara. "Whence?" cried Wilhelm.</p> @@ -17393,7 +17377,7 @@ spectators far more liberal applause than he had ever been enabled to obtain.</p> <p>Laertes entered: and Madam Melina cried, "Look you here at this -lucky fellow; he is soon to be a capitalist, or Heaven knows what!"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_417" id="Page_417">[417]</a></span> +lucky fellow; he is soon to be a capitalist, or Heaven knows what!"<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_417">[417]</a></span> Wilhelm, in embracing him, discovered that his coat was superfine: the rest of his apparel was simple, but of the very best materials.</p> @@ -17439,7 +17423,7 @@ instruct you and keep you waking."</p> cork, and filled the three glasses to the brim.</p> <p>"Drink!" cried she, having emptied at a draught her foaming glass. -"Drink, ere the spirit of it pass! This third glass shall froth away<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_418" id="Page_418">[418]</a></span> +"Drink, ere the spirit of it pass! This third glass shall froth away<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_418">[418]</a></span> untasted to the memory of my unhappy Mariana. How red were her lips when she then drank your health! Ah, and now forever pale and cold!"</p> @@ -17482,7 +17466,7 @@ that I persuaded Mariana to yield to the solicitations of a certain Norberg; it was with repugnance that she followed my advice, nay, that she even heard it. He was rich; he seemed attached: I hoped he would be constant. Soon after, he was forced to go upon his journey; and Mariana -became acquainted with you. What had I then to abide! What to hinder,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_419" id="Page_419">[419]</a></span> +became acquainted with you. What had I then to abide! What to hinder,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_419">[419]</a></span> what to undergo! 'Oh!' cried she often, 'hadst thou spared my youth, my innocence, but four short weeks, I might have found a worthy object of my love; I had then been worthy of him; and love might have given, with @@ -17524,7 +17508,7 @@ her understand, that, by marriage, she acquires the right, in future, to dispose of her heart and person as she pleases."</p> <p>"Peace!" cried Wilhelm. "Dost thou think that one crime can be the -excuse of another? To thy story, without further observations!"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_420" id="Page_420">[420]</a></span></p> +excuse of another? To thy story, without further observations!"<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_420">[420]</a></span></p> <p>"Do you listen, then, without blaming! Mariana became yours against my will. In this adventure, at least, I have nothing to reproach myself @@ -17562,7 +17546,7 @@ him about her situation. I told him that she was with child; that, poor girl, she should be humored. He was so delighted with his fatherhood, with his prospect of a boy, that he granted every thing she wished: he promised rather to set out and travel for a time, than vex his dear, -and injure her by these internal troubles. With such intentions, at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_421" id="Page_421">[421]</a></span> +and injure her by these internal troubles. With such intentions, at<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_421">[421]</a></span> an early hour he glided out; and if you, mein Herr, stood sentry by our house, there was nothing wanting to your happiness, but to have looked into the bosom of your rival, whom you thought so favored and so @@ -17603,7 +17587,7 @@ feelings capable of casting me away, I should then belong again entirely to myself; my punishment would bring me consolation, I would suffer all that fate could lay upon me.'</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_422" id="Page_422">[422]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_422">[422]</a></span></p> <p>"With such purposes and hopes, mein Herr, this lovely girl expected you: you came not. Oh! how shall I describe the state of watching and of @@ -17645,7 +17629,7 @@ have nothing more to tell you," cried she, and threw a packet on the table. "Here are some writings that will put your cruelty to shame: peruse these sheets with unwet eyes, if you can." She glided softly out. Our friend had not the heart to open the pocket-book that night: he had -himself presented it to Mariana; he knew that she had carefully<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_423" id="Page_423">[423]</a></span> +himself presented it to Mariana; he knew that she had carefully<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_423">[423]</a></span> preserved in it every letter he had sent her. Next morning he prevailed upon himself: he untied the ribbon; little notes came forward written with pencil in his own hand, and recalled to him every situation, from @@ -17683,7 +17667,7 @@ carry under my heart is thine. Since I began to love thee, no other man has even pressed my hand. Oh that thy love, that thy uprightness, had been the companions of my youth!"</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_424" id="Page_424">[424]</a></span></p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_424">[424]</a></span></p> <p>"Thou wilt not hear me? I must even be silent. But these letters will not die: perhaps they will speak to thee, when the shroud is covering my @@ -17692,7 +17676,7 @@ weary life, to the last moment, this will be my only comfort, that, though I cannot call myself blameless, towards thee I am free from blame."</p> -<hr class="hr" /> +<hr class="hr" > <p>Wilhelm could proceed no farther: he resigned himself entirely to his sorrow, which became still more afflicting; when, Laertes entering, he @@ -17726,7 +17710,7 @@ life, as in art, I know well, a person must take counsel with himself when he purposes to do or to produce any thing: but, when it is produced or done, he must listen with attention to the voices of a number; and, with a little practice, out of these many votes he will be able to -collect a perfect judgment. The few who could well have saved us<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_425" id="Page_425">[425]</a></span> +collect a perfect judgment. The few who could well have saved us<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_425">[425]</a></span> this trouble for the most part hold their peace."</p> <p>"This they should not do," said Wilhelm. "I have often heard people, who @@ -17772,7 +17756,7 @@ doubts about the boy's being really yours. The old woman, it is true, deserves but little confidence; yet a person who invents untruths for her advantage, may likewise speak the truth when truths are profitable to her. Aurelia she had hoodwinked to believe that Felix was Lothario's -son; and it is a property of us women, that we cordially like the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_426" id="Page_426">[426]</a></span> +son; and it is a property of us women, that we cordially like the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_426">[426]</a></span> children of our lovers, though we do not know the mothers, or even hate them from the heart." Felix came jumping in: she pressed him to her with a tenderness which was not usual to her.</p> @@ -17814,7 +17798,7 @@ altogether out of doubt?"</p> <p>"Give me the pocket-book: on that paper every thing depends. Norberg's luckless billet caused this sorrowful perplexity: another from his hand may loose the knots, so far as aught may still depend upon unravelling -them." She took a letter from the book: Wilhelm recognized that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_427" id="Page_427">[427]</a></span> +them." She took a letter from the book: Wilhelm recognized that<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_427">[427]</a></span> odious writing; he constrained himself, and read,—</p> <p>"Tell me, girl, how hast thou got such power over me? I would not have @@ -17856,7 +17840,7 @@ coming from his evil Genius.</p> <p>"Your jealous fears," said Barbara, who guessed his mood of mind, "time alone can cure. Look upon the child as a stranger one; take stricter heed of him on that account; observe his gifts, his temper, his -capacities; and if you do not, by and by, discover in him the exact<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_428" id="Page_428">[428]</a></span> +capacities; and if you do not, by and by, discover in him the exact<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_428">[428]</a></span> resemblance of yourself, your eyes must certainly be bad. Of this I can assure you,—were I a man, no one should foist a child on me; but it is a happiness for women, that, in these cases, men are not so quick @@ -17903,7 +17887,7 @@ better: I will go as thou requirest, only leave me Felix."</p> <p>After much discussion her opinion was not altered; and Wilhelm at last resolved on giving Barbara both the children, and sending them together -to Theresa. This was the easier for him, as he still feared to look<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_429" id="Page_429">[429]</a></span> +to Theresa. This was the easier for him, as he still feared to look<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_429">[429]</a></span> upon the lovely Felix as his son. He would take him on his arm, and carry him about: the child delighted to be held before the glass; Wilhelm also liked, though unavowedly, to hold him there, and seek @@ -17944,7 +17928,7 @@ at its actual worth, and never more took notice of it."</p> <p>"Be not unjust to yourself," said Frau Melina: "if no one acknowledges what you have done for us, I at least will not forget it. Our whole -condition had been different, if you had not been with us. But it is<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_430" id="Page_430">[430]</a></span> +condition had been different, if you had not been with us. But it is<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_430">[430]</a></span> with our purposes as with our wishes. They seem no longer what they were, when they have been accomplished, been fulfilled; and we think we have done, have wished for, nothing."</p> @@ -17977,16 +17961,16 @@ first time seemed to notice, that, to work effectively, he stood in need of outward means. He entered on his journey, this time, in a temper altogether different from that of last; the prospects he had in view were charming; he hoped to meet with something cheerful by the way. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_431" id="Page_431">[431]</a></span></p> +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_431">[431]</a></span></p> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3> <p>On returning to Lothario's castle, Wilhelm found that changes had occurred. Jarno met him with the tidings, that, Lothario's uncle being dead, the baron had himself set out to take possession of the heritage. -"You come in time," said he, "to help the abbé and me. Lothario has +"You come in time," said he, "to help the abbĂ© and me. Lothario has commissioned us to purchase some extensive properties of land in this quarter: he has long contemplated the bargain, and we have now got cash and credit just in season. The only point which made us hesitate was, @@ -17997,7 +17981,7 @@ prudent man. At present we are making estimates and calculations: we must also settle economically how the lands are to be shared, so that each of us may have a fine estate." The papers were submitted to our friend: the fields, meadows, houses, were inspected; and, though Jarno -and the abbé seemed to understand the matter fully, Wilhelm could not +and the abbĂ© seemed to understand the matter fully, Wilhelm could not help desiring that Theresa had been with them.</p> <p>In these labors several days were spent, and Wilhelm had scarcely time @@ -18021,7 +18005,7 @@ into our mysteries. It is right that a man, when he first enters upon life, should think highly of himself, should determine to attain many eminent distinctions, should endeavor to make all things possible; but, when his education has proceeded to a certain pitch, it is advantageous -for him, that he learn to lose himself among a mass of men, that he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_432" id="Page_432">[432]</a></span> +for him, that he learn to lose himself among a mass of men, that he<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_432">[432]</a></span> learn to live for the sake of others, and to forget himself in an activity prescribed by duty. It is then that he first becomes acquainted with himself, for it is conduct alone that compares us with others. You @@ -18062,7 +18046,7 @@ a gentle rustling, and showed, within a picture-frame, a dark, empty aperture. A man stepped forward at it, in a common dress, saluted the astonished looker-on, and said to him, "Do you not recognize me? Among the many things which you would like to know, do you feel no curiosity -to learn where your grandfather's collection of pictures and statues<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_433" id="Page_433">[433]</a></span> +to learn where your grandfather's collection of pictures and statues<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_433">[433]</a></span> are at present? Have you forgot the painting which you once so much delighted in? Where, think you, is the sick king's son now languishing?" Wilhelm, without difficulty, recognized the stranger, whom, in that @@ -18079,7 +18063,7 @@ moments?"</p> <p>He had not leisure to pursue his thoughts: the curtain once more parted; and a person stood before him, whom he instantly perceived to be the country clergyman that had attended him and his companions on that -pleasure-sail of theirs. He had a resemblance to the abbé, though he +pleasure-sail of theirs. He had a resemblance to the abbĂ©, though he seemed to be a different person. With a cheerful countenance, in a tone of dignity, he said, "To guard from error is not the instructor's duty, but to lead the erring pupil; nay, to let him quaff his error in deep, @@ -18104,7 +18088,7 @@ Why did they favor thy silly sports, instead of drawing thee away from them?"</p> <p>"Dispute not with us!" cried a voice. "Thou art saved, thou art on the -way to the goal. None of thy follies wilt thou repent; none wilt thou<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_434" id="Page_434">[434]</a></span> +way to the goal. None of thy follies wilt thou repent; none wilt thou<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_434">[434]</a></span> wish to repeat; no luckier destiny can be allotted to a man." The curtain went asunder, and in full armor stood the old king of Denmark in the space. "I am thy father's spirit," said the figure; "and I depart in @@ -18118,10 +18102,10 @@ thee."</p> father's voice; and yet in truth it was not: the present and the past alike confounded and perplexed him.</p> -<p>He had not meditated long when the abbé came to view, and placed himself +<p>He had not meditated long when the abbĂ© came to view, and placed himself behind the green table. "Come hither!" cried he to his marvelling friend. He went, and mounted up the steps. On the green cloth lay a -little roll. "Here is your indenture," said the abbé: "take it to heart; +little roll. "Here is your indenture," said the abbĂ©: "take it to heart; it is of weighty import." Wilhelm lifted, opened it, and read:—</p> <p class="center"><b>INDENTURE.</b></p> @@ -18143,7 +18127,7 @@ and seed-corn ought not to be ground. Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the highest matter. Action can be understood and again represented by the spirit alone. No one knows what he is doing while he -acts aright, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. Whoever<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_435" id="Page_435">[435]</a></span> +acts aright, but of what is wrong we are always conscious. Whoever<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_435">[435]</a></span> works with symbols only is a pedant, a hypocrite, or a bungler. There are many such, and they like to be together. Their babbling detains the scholar: their obstinate mediocrity vexes even the best. The instruction @@ -18151,7 +18135,7 @@ which the true artist gives us opens the mind; for, where words fail him, deeds speak. The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master.</p> -<p>"Enough!" cried the abbé: "the rest in due time. Now look round you +<p>"Enough!" cried the abbĂ©: "the rest in due time. Now look round you among these cases."</p> <p>Wilhelm went, and read the titles of the rolls. With astonishment he @@ -18171,7 +18155,7 @@ matter which is nearest your heart, and ought to be so."</p> <p>"Good, then! Ye marvellous sages, whose sight has pierced so many secrets, can you tell me whether Felix is in truth my son?"</p> -<p>"Hail to you for this question!" cried the abbé, clapping hands for joy. +<p>"Hail to you for this question!" cried the abbĂ©, clapping hands for joy. "Felix is your son! By the holiest that lies hid among us, I swear to you Felix is your son; nor, in our opinion, was the mother that is gone unworthy of you. Receive the lovely child from our hands: turn round, @@ -18180,26 +18164,26 @@ and venture to be happy."</p> <p>Wilhelm heard a noise behind him: he turned round, and saw a child's face peeping archly through the tapestry at the end of the room; it was Felix. The boy playfully hid himself so soon as he was noticed. "Come -forward!" cried the abbé: he came running; his father rushed towards +forward!" cried the abbĂ©: he came running; his father rushed towards him, took him in his arms, and pressed him to his heart. "Yes! I feel it," cried he, "thou art mine! What a gift of Heaven have I to thank my friends for! Whence or how comest thou, my child, at this important moment?"</p> -<p>"Ask not," said the abbé. "Hail to thee, young man! Thy Apprenticeship +<p>"Ask not," said the abbĂ©. "Hail to thee, young man! Thy Apprenticeship is done: Nature has pronounced thee free."</p> -<hr class="hr3" /> +<hr class="hr3" > <h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Charakteristik des Meister.</p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Charakteristik des Meister.</p></div> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Der Schafer putzte sich zum Tanz,—a song of +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Der Schafer putzte sich zum Tanz,—a song of Goethe's.—<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p></div> -<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> So in the original.—<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p></div> +<div class="footnote"><p><a id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> So in the original.—<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p></div> -<hr class="hr2" /> +<hr class="hr2" > <h3>BURT'S HOME LIBRARY.</h3> <blockquote><p>Comprising two hundred and fifty titles of standard works, embracing @@ -18208,14 +18192,14 @@ world's best literature, written by authors of world-wide reputation. 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