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The German Cla.s.sics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.Volume I.by Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke.PREFACE It is surprising how little the English-speaking world knows of German literature of the nineteenth century. Goethe and Schiller found their
- 701 Let death the fourth one in our compact be! [_Exeunt omnes._] ACT III _Morning. Courtyard of the castle. The cathedral is at one side._ SCENE I _Enter_ RUMOLT _and_ DANKWART _armed._ RUMOLT. Three dead! DANKWART. For yesterday it was enough, For that wa
- 702 SIEGFRIED (_about to embrace her_). But may I thank thee so? KRIEMHILD (_draws back_). Dost think that I invite thee? SIEGFRIED. With words then For thy words! No, for sweeter yet than words, Thy murmuring of tender secret things My ear finds precious,
- 703 KRIEMHILD. I see you know it well! The second trick Succeeded like the first, and now I have My task twice over! [_She starts to put the girdle on again._] SIEGFRIED. No! For G.o.ds sake, no! KRIEMHILD. Art thou in earnest? SIEGFRIED (_to himself_). Twa
- 704 This hurts me most! To such a man as thou, The sin itself, however black it be, Is more becoming than the cloak of lies Wherewith he fain would hide it. _Enter_ GUNTHER _and_ BRUNHILDA. SIEGFRIED. We must go! They come! KRIEMHILD. But who! Does Brunhild
- 705 Oh, name him not to me!GUNTHER.There is no reason thou shouldst hate him so.BRUNHILDA.And if I have none? When a king descends To fill the humble office of a guide And carry messages, it is indeed As strange as if a man should take the place Of his own ho
- 706 KRIEMHILD.Wouldst thou not watch the combat from afar Rather than join the fray?BRUNHILDA.Hast thou tried both, That thus thou canst compare them?KRIEMHILD. I'd not bear The heat of battle.BRUNHILDA.Then thou shouldst not try To judge of it!--No insu
- 707 KRIEMHILD (_laughs_). BRUNHILDA. Then thou art mad! Perchance thou fearst that we shall be too harsh With all the va.s.sals? Yet thou needst not fear! I plant no flower beds in conquered lands, And only once will I claim precedence If thou art not too pro
- 708 BRUNHILDA. Tis false! KRIEMHILD. Tis true! Now scorn him if thou canst! Wilt now consent That I may pa.s.s before thee through the door? (_To her women._) Now follow. She shall see me prove my rights! [_They leave and enter the cathedral._] [Ill.u.s.tra
- 709 Thy sister calls me so! HAGEN (_to FRIGGA_). What happened here? FRIGGA. Ye are discovered now! We know the conqueror, and Kriemhild vows That he was twice a victor. HAGEN (_to GUNTHER_). He has told! [_He speaks to him aside._] SCENE IX KRIEMHILD (_who
- 710 BRUNHILDA. Ill touch no food till judgment is fulfilled. HAGEN. Forgive me that I spoke before my king! I only strove to make the matter plain, Yet free decision is thy royal right-- So make thy choice between thy bride and him. GISELHER. Thou canst not
- 711 SIEGFRIED.Ho, ye knights! And hear ye not The hounds give tongue, and hark! Our youngest hunter Impatient tries his horn! To horse! Away!HAGEN.The day is fair!SIEGFRIED. And have you not been told That bears have ventured in the very stalls, And that the
- 712 'Tis so.SIEGFRIED (_to_ HAGEN).Know'st thou betrayal? Treachery Gaze on the traitor! Smile then if thou canst.To open combat dost thou challenge him And dost o'erthrow him. But thou art too proud, If not too n.o.ble, to thrust home thy swor
- 713 VOLKER. Thy angry mood Is natural; thou wast thyself deceived. GISELHER. That was not why. Yet let us not dispute When all is well again. VOLKER. When all is well? GISELHER. Is it not well? VOLKER. They tell me that the Queen In mourning robes is clad,
- 714 KRIEMHILD.I know how bitterly I wounded her!I'll not forgive myself. I'd rather far Have felt the hurt myself than injured her.HAGEN.And this it is that drove thee from thy room? KRIEMHILD.Oh, no! 'twould make me hide myself away!I am so an
- 715 I fear the Valkyries, for I have heard They always choose the n.o.blest warriors; If they direct the dart, it neer can miss. HAGEN. But then he only needs a trusty squire. Who shall protect his back. Thinkst thou not so? KRIEMHILD. I think I should slee
- 716 Well HAGEN.Were it not wise To broider on his tunic a small cross?Forsooth our care is needless, and he would Deride thee if thou shouldst but tell thy fear.Yet since I now have made myself his guard I would not aught neglect. KRIEMHILD.That will I do.[_S
- 717 HAGEN. I marvel at her also. GUNTHER. And withal She neither drives nor urges, as with things Bound up with time and place and human will Twere natural to do. She questions not Nor changes countenance, but sits amazed That any man should speak and not ann
- 718 And more than that! Behind them is a horde Of savage tribesmen who will never sow, And yet they want to reap. HAGEN. Now do you see? SIEGFRIED. But you should show no mercy on the wolf Because he has no time to guard himself. HAGEN. We surely shall not.
- 719 Thourt severe. SIEGFRIED. But let me go! The breeze will change my mood. Tomorrow night Ill make my peace with thee. HAGEN. Then come! SIEGFRIED. I will. But now my farewell kiss. [_He embraces_ KRIEMHILD.] Thoult not deny me? Thoult not say, tomorrow,
- 720 KRIEMHILD. No wish to go! GISELHER. What sayst thou? Weve no time! Weve much to do before our men march forth. KRIEMHILD. And is all that intrusted to your youth? If I am dear to you, if you have not Forgotten that one mother nourished us, Ride after th
- 721 SCENE XVI KRIEMHILD.Oh, had I only told it him!Oh, my beloved, no woman host thou known, I see it now! Else nevermore hadst thou Unto a trembling girl who doth betray Herself through fear, intrusted such a secret.Still do I hear the playful whispered word
- 722 I've thrown near every kind of game I killed At this black flock; at last I threw a fox, But still they would not fly, and yet I hate Nothing so much in all the woodland green As that deep black--'tis like the devil's hue.The doves have nev
- 723 SIEGFRIED (_to GUNTHER_). Pray look more cheerfully. I know a way to reconcile thy bride; Brunhildas kisses shall ere long be thine. My joy I will forego as long as thou. HAGEN (_comes back and lays aside his weapons_). The weapons will impede me when I
- 724 Thou liest! Twas Thine envy! HAGEN. Silence! SIEGFRIED. Threats for a dead man? Aimed I so true that thou dost fear me still? Then draw, for now I fall, and thou canst dare To spit upon me like a heap of dust, For here I lie-- [_He falls to the ground._
- 725 They have perhaps Returned. UTE. The hunters? KRIEMHILD. Once it seemed to me That some one softly crept up to my door. I thought it must be Siegfried. UTE. Didst thou make Some sign that thou wast wakeful? KRIEMHILD. No. UTE. Indeed It might then have
- 726 UTE. Tis Siegfried? Go! Awaken all! CHAMBERLAIN. Help, help! [_The maidens rush in._] UTE. O piteous wife! KRIEMHILD (_rising_). Brunhild commanded, Hagen did the deed!-- A light! UTE. My child! KRIEMHILD (_seizes a torch_). Tis he! I know, I know! Let
- 727 The robbers spear was guided by blind chance, So that it struck the spot. In such a way A child may kill a giant. UTE (_still busying herself with the maidens over KRIEMHILD_). Rise, Kriemhild! KRIEMHILD. Another parting? No, Ill cling to him, And to the
- 728 Oh, holy father, Thou knowest not! DANKWART. Princess, thy grief is sacred, But yet unjust and blind. Our warriors here, Our n.o.blest will bear witness-- [_Meanwhile the door has been closed and the body is no longer visible._] KRIEMHILD (_who observes t
- 729 [_To the women whom he keeps away from the coffin by coming between them and it, while it is being set down._] Be welcome too, If you are seeking peace as Siegfried is. [_He holds up the cross before KRIEMHILD._] Thou turnst away from this most holy cross
- 730 Perchance he lives!My Siegfried! Had he strength to speak one word Or gaze but once upon me!UTE.My poor child, It is but nature, moving once again.Ghastly enough! CHAPLAIN.It is the hand of G.o.d, That softly stirs once more these sacred springs Because H
- 731 [_She turns toward_ SIEGFRIED'S _body and falls upon the bier._]FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Siegfried's wonderful sword is named Balmung.][Footnote 2: The reference is to a pa.s.sage in the _Chanson de Roland_.Roland was in command of a rear guard a
- 732 "You shall, I wish it," cried Frederick, releasing her.Anna, without making any answer, took up the flax-comb and looked down on the ground before her."Will you, or will you not?" persisted Frederick, and stepped right in front of her.
- 733 NATHALIE.Oh, I am orphaned now a second time.PRINCE.Oh, friend, sweet friend, were this dark hour not given To grief, to be its own, thus would I speak: Oh, twine your branches here about this breast!NATHALIE. My dear, good cousin!PRINCE.Will you, will yo
- 734 "A curse upon thee!"answers the latter; then he inquires who gave the order for the retreat; Mehmed answers that he did; the Janizaries had been slaughtered by the thousands, but in vain, the army was exhausted, and it had been impossible to wre
- 735 This is the object which dramatic literature must always keep in view if it would be effectual. To be sure, it is possible to conceive a still higher species of drama, a tragedy which deals with man only in the abstract, with man in himself, in his myster
- 736 I can remember an unpleasant incident of another kind which took place in my earliest childhood. It is the first that I recollect and it may have happened in my third year, if not in my second. I can tell about it without offending against the sacred memo
- 737 But however the matter may have stood in general,--and I repeat my conviction that in this case the happy medium is hard to find,--to me the reform was a great blessing. For Wesselburen, like the other towns, acquired an elementary school and a man was ch
- 738 To depict two kindred characters one by means of the other, to have them mutually reflect one another without their becoming aware of it, would surely be the triumph of delineation.It is a masterly trait in the _Prince of Homburg_ that the suspicion that
- 739 (To Siegmund Englaender.) --You wish to believe in the poet as you believe in the Deity; why ascend so high into the region of clouds, where everything ceases to be, even a.n.a.logy? Would you not probably attain more if you descended to the beast and asc
- 740 FREI } LINDENSCHMIED} _Poachers_.KATHARINE } BASTIAN, _Stein's valet_._Two porters._ _The scene is alternately the forester's house at Dusterwalde and Stein's mansion at Waldenrode; once, in Act III, the Frontier Inn and the Dell._ THE HER
- 741 SOPHY. Put it here. Thats it. And now chairs, boys. From the upper room. Weiler might-- [ANDREW and WILLIAM exeunt.] WEILER (in a hurry, making ready to go). Well, if Weiler did not have his hands full! Outside with the wood-cutters--then with the fir-s
- 742 That is true. It does not matter whether the flattery is coa.r.s.e or fine.If a woman only notices that one means to flatter her, she is satisfied.It is just as when boys stroke a kitten. Whether they pet it gently or roughly, whether it likes it or not,
- 743 And that now my life is soon to be broken off behind me, as if it were sinking away from under me, and that a new life is to begin, one so entirely new--don't be offended, good Robert! This to me is so strange--gives me such a feeling of anxiety!ROBE
- 744 _The_ FORESTER; ROBERT. _The_ FORESTER, _when they are alone becomes embarra.s.sed, and walks up and down for some time_.ROBERT.You wished to say-- FORESTER.Quite right-- [_Wipes the perspiration from his forehead_.]Well; sit down, Mr. Stein.ROBERT.These
- 745 You must get to the windward of the stag.[_Rises_.]And now--make her happy--Robert--my Mary.[_About to go_.]ROBERT. But what has all this to do with Mary?FORESTER.Why, you have not yet understood me? Look here! The stag must not have an inkling that you a
- 746 That is what I call a fine-looking bride! WILKENS. And she is not a beggars child either, Sir. MoLLER (_politely_). Who does not know that Mr. Wilkens is her mothers uncle? WILKENS (_flattered_). Well, well! MoLLER. And Mr. Wilkens need not be ashamed,
- 747 Your G.o.dfrey there-- STEIN (_getting excited: with emphasis_). _My_ G.o.dfrey? FORESTER (_growing more and more calm and cheerful_). Well, for all I care, mine, then. STEIN. Why do you always drag him in? FORESTER. Never mind him, then. STEIN. As if I
- 748 Please, do not let us detain you. FORESTER. It is immaterial whether we sit here or there. Now then! Forty in spades. [_Continuing to play_.] STEIN. All right! Go ahead. FORESTER (_triumphantly_). Are not you thinking of G.o.dfrey again? And the clearin
- 749 FORESTER. And I am the forester of Dusterwalde. [STEIN _is getting more and more excited. He shows plainly that the presence of other persons increases his sensitiveness, and he makes an evident effort to control his temper. The_ FORESTER _treats the matt
- 750 WILKENS. But-- FORESTER. Hang it! You always have a "But." Thats the way he goes on every day. For twenty years-- WILKENS. But today he is your master. FORESTER. Master or not. The forest shall not be cleared. WILKENS. But you will lose your p
- 751 FORESTER.But he is wrong, and I shall not give my consent to anything that is wrong. For forty years I have disregarded my own interest for the sake of what was intrusted to my care; I have-- WILKENS.Well. My opinion is, that if for forty years you have h
- 752 [_The_ FORESTER _is obliged to sit down_.] SOPHY (_to_ ANDREW, _whom she has been compelled to restrain all the while, and who now rushes toward the door_). Where are you going, Andrew? ANDREW. I am going to tell Robert what his father-- SOPHY. Dont you
- 753 For your obstinacy. I have your word, and Mary has mine; I am a man, and will be no scoundrel. FORESTER. And because you will not be a scoundrel, I am to be one? Shall people say: "Ulrich caused a quarrel between father and son?" Sir, my girl is
- 754 FORESTER. Will you mind what I say? [ANDREW _pulls a rifle from the wall_.] FORESTER. What are you doing there? ANDREW (_with suppressed rage_). Nothing. Here in the house you are master. Outside no one is master; outside we all are. FORESTER. In my for
- 755 Is everything to turn out unlucky today? And you, cousin, are you also going to leave us?WILKENS.Well! If one insists on running his head through a wall, I'm not the fool to hold my hand in between.[_Exit_.]ACT II _In the Manor House_ SCENE I STEIN
- 756 ROBERT.Your anger carries you away. Father, I implore you, do not tear open the wound which healed only because I made allowance for your excited state.I shall wait till you have become calm; till you are again master of yourself.STEIN.You see that I am m
- 757 If he only thought I had not the intention!--And you have tried everything?MoLLER.Everything.STEIN.Did you also threaten him with G.o.dfrey? As if he were to be appointed forester, as if you were to deliver to him his commission immediately, in case-- Mo
- 758 MoLLER (_ashamed and very much embarra.s.sed, trying to keep him off_). For heavens sake, what are you thinking of? If any one should see this! Shame on you! [_Making an effort to recover his dignity_.] You have hatched a scheme with Ulrichs Andrew, have
- 759 I wonder whether I shall hear anything now? If I dont care to know anything, then you never get through talking. FORESTER (_stands before him; severely_). Weiler, do you hear? WEILER. Well, G.o.dfrey. Today he has grown six inches; he immediately put on h
- 760 Mr. Stein-- PASTOR.I have just come from him. And the message I have to give you--I know, you will not receive it less kindly because I am the messenger.SOPHY.If you come from Mr. Stein, then everything may still end well. But, pastor, you do not know how
- 761 Father, Andrew is outside, and refuses to come in. I told him that you had called him. SOPHY. Come, William, let us go out to Andrew. FORESTER. Keep quiet, woman. Are you going to make him completely crazy with your lamentations? Either you keep quiet, or
- 762 ANDREW. He was intoxicated-- WEILER (_half audibly_). As usual-- [_When the forester casts a look at him, he pretends not to have said anything_.] ANDREW. And so were the woodcutters. He had them pa.s.s the bottle round. "Here we begin," he sa
- 763 Father-- FORESTER.And he--he-- ANDREW.He-- FORESTER (_faintly_).He-- ANDREW (_beside himself_).Father, I cannot say it. No man in G.o.d's world has ever dared to do that to me!FORESTER (_drawing a deep breath_).Be quiet now. Say it later--Andrew.[_P
- 764 PASTOR. I am to answer Yes or No? Indeed, it is not right in the ordinary sense, but-- FORESTER (_interrupts triumphantly_). Then it is not right? And if it is not right, it must be wrong. And for this purpose the courts are there, that no wrong shall be
- 765 Weiler himself heard the Hereditary Forester say it. And, I tell you, what the Hereditary Forester says--that's as good as if another fellow had already done it.LINDENSCHMIED.He'll look out for his skin, the Hereditary Forester will.[_Softly._]I
- 766 FREI (_rattles his gla.s.s on the table_).Let me have another one, host. And it is a favor that I now drink in your place, when you still charge for it. In a week from now you will have to provide the stuff, and no honest man need pay you a penny for it,
- 767 FREI. Did you laugh, Lindenschmied? LINDENSCHMIED. I dont know whether it was me. FREI. You have a queer laugh. Are you going along, Lindenschmied, into the ducal territory? LINDENSCHMIED (_slaps him on the shoulder_). Man, now we have liberty! I have m
- 768 I put it right here. The one with the yellow strap. HOST. Only a moment ago I saw it standing there. ANDREW. Did you take it up, perhaps? HOST. I? I have not touched it. Good heavens! If Lindenschmied--you were resting, and I was just counting. What is
- 769 But surely you will not go away? ROBERT. No, Katharine, I shall remain here. [_Exit_ KATHARINE.] SCENE VI ROBERT, _alone; later_, G.o.dFREY; finally MoLLER _with two workingmen_. ROBERT (_looks for some time after_ KATHARINE; _then walks up and down_).
- 770 He--threatened--to shoot me-- ROBERT. It is not possible. MoLLER. Was it Andrew, G.o.dfrey? G.o.dFREY. Andrew--yes-- MoLLER. He is dying. [_Pause_.] Take him up, men. And you, Mr. Stein--this here is a nest of murderers. Come along. There are others abo
- 771 Murderer, stand! Or I shoot you down! [LINDENSCHMIED _hurries across the stage on the rocky path._ ROBERT _follows him below_.] ANDREW (_totters after him_). Be careful, Robert! The man is desperate--it is a matter of life and death. LINDENSCHMIED. Stan
- 772 Your offer did not exactly meet with the kindest reception. And yet, who knows whether, after all, he had not agreed to it, if unfortunately the affair with Andrew-- STEIN. With Andrew? What affair? [_Jumps up_.] You dont mean to say he has come to blows
- 773 SCENE IX _The same_: MoLLER, _then_ BASTIAN.MoLLER (_comes in, beside himself_).Horrible! Horrible!STEIN. But what is the matter?MoLLER.A murder!--A dreadful murder!STEIN.But, man alive, speak-- MoLLER.Mr. Robert-- STEIN. My son![_Falls into a chair_.]PAS
- 774 Well. I see you'll risk it. You also are a queer mother. But I am not so indifferent as you, and I will not have a catastrophe on my conscience, if I can prevent it. I have most to lose by this. To be brief: If you leave him and come with your childr
- 775 We don't have to go. There is a law to prevent that.SOPHY (_shaking her head_). _Your_ law? [_Continues packing_.]_I_ shall be obliged to go away with the children.FORESTER (_surprised_).You are going to-- SOPHY.If you don't come to terms with
- 776 FORESTER.Did you ask the lawyer how long it would be before the matter is settled? Till I have my rights?WILLIAM.He refuses to inst.i.tute proceedings.SOPHY (_drawing a deep breath; aside_). Then there is still some hope left!FORESTER (_rises; quite perpl
- 777 I must get my mind off the subject.SOPHY.You always become so excited after wine. If you drink now it may be your death.FORESTER.Better to drink oneself to death than live as a scoundrel! And a scoundrel I must remain before the world. William, a bottle a
- 778 MARY."You will never again see your Robert."SOPHY (_coughs, just as the_ FORESTER _is turning away from the window_).From the Bible, Mary.MARY. "As he hath caused a blemish in a man, so it shall be done to him again.Ye shall have one manner
- 779 Yes. Then you will think, perhaps too late: "Had I only gone!" MARY. But mother, if I were in the forest, and father should meet me? Or if he should find us together? SOPHY. We must ask him, whether he is going to stay home. MARY. I cannot loo
- 780 FORESTER.Can't you say it yourself, silly thing?MARY (_mastering her emotion_).Good-night, father.FORESTER. Good-night. You need not wait for me tomorrow when you are going to your uncle. Perhaps I shall have gone out by that time. I have an errand;
- 781 Is it you? [_Lapses again into his thoughts_.] WEILER. Its me. FORESTER. Where are you coming from at this time? WEILER. From the forest. At the fence I had a talk with your William. So, after all, you are dismissed. FORESTER. Because there are two kind
- 782 WEILER.Take good care that you are not mistaken.FORESTER.Take good care that I don't take you by the collar.WEILER. It's no joke-- FORESTER.You shall see that it is not.WEILER.I know nothing but what I have heard and seen. And now sit down. I do
- 783 [_Exit, the_ FORESTER _after him_.] SCENE VII _Enter_ SOPHY; _then the_ FORESTER _and_ WILLIAM. SOPHY (_coming out of_ MARYS _room_). Now she may be where the willows begin. [_At the window_.] He is closing the shutters. I must close Marys for appearanc
- 784 William, come here. Read to me. There in the Bible, begin where the book-mark is. WILLIAM. In the middle of the chapter? FORESTER. Beginning at the mark there. Go on! [_Gets his hat_.] WILLIAM (_reads_). "And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lor
- 785 Did Weiler pick up the trail of the stag again? FORESTER. Yes. Maybe. SOPHY. How you look! One might be afraid of you, if one did not know how it is with you when you have taken wine. FORESTER. For that reason I want to go out into the open air. SOPHY.
- 786 [SOPHY _is startled, and quickly closes the door_.] WILLIAM. And Mary? She is not in her room? SOPHY. What ideas you get into your head! WILLIAM. Her bed is still as if it had just been made. SOPHY (_listens, frightened_). Is that your father? William,
- 787 FORESTER. And all the way back I heard her walking behind me. SOPHY. On your way back-- FORESTER. Whenever I walked, I heard her behind me; whenever I stood still, she also stood still, but I did not look around. SOPHY (_relieved_). You did not look aro
- 788 Don't mention that-- SOPHY.How you start! It was at sunset; and as I looked around, something was coming out from under the pines--so red. I--frightened--For G.o.d's sake, I say, why, that is blood![FORESTER _throws down his spoon and rises_.]SO
- 789 I have judged him. As it is written there--"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth." I have judged him, because the courts no longer judge right.They have two kinds of law, and here it is written: "Ye shall have one manner of law." I have not mu
- 790 "He--he--shall--surely--be--put to death"-- _Enter_ ANDREW. STEIN (_going toward him_). G.o.d be thanked! Andrew, you live! FORESTER (_makes a great effort_). It is not true. He is dead. He must be dead. ANDREW. Father! FORESTER (_stretching o
- 791 Robert! FORESTER (_almost simultaneously_). Shoot me! STEIN (_has seized the gun_). You murderer! [_The_ PASTOR _arrests his arm_.] ANDREW. You shot Robert, father? Robert lives! STEIN. He lives? PASTOR. He lives? FORESTER. He lives? ANDREW. He lives, a
- 792 SCENE VII SOPHY, _like a ghost; can hardly stand or speak; dragged in forcibly by the_ FORESTER. FORESTER. Where is my child? ANDREW. Mother, what ails you? [_He supports her on one side, the_ PASTOR _on the other_.] SOPHY. Andrew! At least one! FORESTE
- 793 SCENE VIII ROBERT, WILLIAM, _then two men with a covered stretcher, which they put down. The men go away_.STEIN.Robert![_Going toward him_.] Do you see, Ulrich? He lives!ROBERT (_embracing him, pale and distracted_).Father! Father!STEIN.What has happened
- 794 PASTOR. No further, Ulrich. Let me show you words of life, words of humanity: "As I live, saith the Lord G.o.d, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live." FORESTER (_who keeps a firm hold of the Bible
- 795 FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 7: Translation of the King James version.]BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH (1856) By OTTO LUDWIG TRANSLATED AND CONDENSED BY MURIEL ALMON The little garden lies between the dwelling-house and the slate shed; whoever goes from one to the othe
- 796 Apollonius could not have avoided growing to be another man, even if he had not wanted to change; and he recognized clearly that it was a piece of good fortune that had led him to his cousin. He lost more and more of his dreaminess; before long his cousin
- 797 "I need not draw your attention to the fact that the matter is very important," continued the councilman.Apollonius bowed. The councilman repressed what he had been about to say. With all its softness and mildness, such strict conscientiousness and obst
- 798 "Why, Uncle Apollonius. Who else could it be? Did you scold him, or slap him as you do me when I take sugar without asking? You must have done something to him, or he wouldn't be so sorry."The little girl went on chattering and soon forgot her uncle ov
- 799 His brother laughed. "Then that's why the evening you came back you didn't dance with any one but Anne and took her home afterward?""I would have danced with your wife," replied Apollonius. "You warned me that she would turn me down because she was
- 800 Apollonius knew little of his brother's mode of life. Fritz Nettenmair hid it from him through the involuntary restraint that Apollonius'efficient personality laid upon him, though he would not have acknowledged it to any one, least of all to himself. A