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Ewing - -Release Date: March 16, 2010 [EBook #31668] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SERAPION BRETHREN. *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Bowen, from scans provided by Google Books - - - - - -</pre> - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 31668 ***</div> <p class="normal">Transcriber's Notes:</p> <p class="hang1">Page scans are from Google Books: @@ -359,7 +321,7 @@ he got his head filled with the strange old legends which are contained in those venerable books; and when, in my hours of comparative quiet, he bestirred himself to talk to me on 'entertaining' subjects, what I heard of was war and pestilence, monstrous abortions, hurricanes, comets, fires and floods, witches, -auto-da-fé's, enchantments, miracles, and, above all other subjects, his talk +auto-da-fé's, enchantments, miracles, and, above all other subjects, his talk was of the manifold works and devices of the Devil--who, as we know, plays such an important part in all those old stories that one can hardly imagine what has become of him <i>now</i>, when he seems to keep so quietly in the background, unless @@ -508,11 +470,11 @@ in which this reply of the stranger was conceived, and the matter was allowed to rest there.</p> <p class="normal">It happened that just then the lady of Councillor Walter -Lütkens was, for the first time, "as ladies wish to be who love their lords"; +Lütkens was, for the first time, "as ladies wish to be who love their lords"; and the old <i>accoucheuse</i>, Mistress Barbara Roloffin, predicted that this fine, grand lady, overflowing with health and strength, would undoubtedly bring into -the world a grand and vigorous son, so that Herr Walter Lütkens was all hope and -gladness. Our "stranger," who had been a guest at Lütkens's wedding, was in the +the world a grand and vigorous son, so that Herr Walter Lütkens was all hope and +gladness. Our "stranger," who had been a guest at Lütkens's wedding, was in the habit of calling at his house now and then; and it chanced that he made one of those calls of his on an evening when Barbara Roloffin was there.</p> @@ -529,7 +491,7 @@ his eyes flashed fire. Nobody could understand what it was that he said to her. But the old woman shrunk into a corner, as pale and wrinkled as she had been at first, and whimpering faintly and unintelligibly.</p> -<p class="normal">"My dear Mr. Lütkens," the stranger said to the master of the +<p class="normal">"My dear Mr. Lütkens," the stranger said to the master of the house, "I hope you will take great care lest something annoying may happen in your house here. I really hope, with all my heart, that everything will go well on this auspicious occasion. But this old creature, Barbara Roloffin, is by no @@ -538,7 +500,7 @@ acquaintance of mine, and I am sorry to say that she has on many occasions not paid proper attention to her patients."</p> <br> -<p class="normal">Both Lütkens and his wife had been very anxious, and had felt +<p class="normal">Both Lütkens and his wife had been very anxious, and had felt most eery and uncanny about this whole business, and full of suspicion as to old Barbara Roloffin, particularly when they remembered the extraordinary transfiguration which took place in her when she saw the stranger. They had very @@ -546,10 +508,10 @@ great suspicions that she was in the practice of black and unholy arts, so that they forbade her to cross the threshold of their house any more, and they made arrangements with another <i>accoucheuse</i>.</p> -<p class="normal">On this, old Barbara was very angry, and said that Lütkens and +<p class="normal">On this, old Barbara was very angry, and said that Lütkens and his wife would pay very dearly for what they had done to her.</p> -<p class="normal">Lütkens's hope and gladness were turned into bitter +<p class="normal">Lütkens's hope and gladness were turned into bitter heart-sorrow and deep grief, when his wife brought into the world a horrible changeling in place of the beautiful boy predicted by Barbara Roloffin. It was a creature all chestnut brown, with two horns on its head, great fat eyes, no nose @@ -557,13 +519,13 @@ whatever, a big wide mouth with a white tongue sticking out of it upside down, and no neck. Its head was down between its shoulders; its body was wrinkled and swollen; its arms came out just above its hips, and it had long, thin shanks.</p> -<p class="normal">Mr. Lütkens wept and lamented terribly. "Oh, just heavens!" he +<p class="normal">Mr. Lütkens wept and lamented terribly. "Oh, just heavens!" he cried; "what in the name of goodness is going to be the outcome of this? Can this little one ever be expected to tread in his father's steps? Was there ever such a thing known as a Member of Council with a couple of horns on his head, and chestnut brown all over?"</p> -<p class="normal">The stranger consoled Lütkens as much as ever he could. He +<p class="normal">The stranger consoled Lütkens as much as ever he could. He pointed out to him that a good education does a great deal; that though, as concerned form and appearance, the new-born thing was really to be characterized as a most arrant schismatic, still he ventured to say that it looked about it @@ -574,14 +536,14 @@ becoming a distinguished <i>savant</i>, inasmuch as excessive ugliness is often characteristic of <i>savants</i>, and even causes them to be highly respected and much looked up to.</p> -<p class="normal">However, Lütkens could not but ascribe his misfortune in the +<p class="normal">However, Lütkens could not but ascribe his misfortune in the depths of his heart to old Barbara Roloffin, particularly when he learned that she had been sitting at the door of the room during his wife's <i>accouchement</i>; -and Frau Lütkens had declared, with many tears, that the old woman's face had +and Frau Lütkens had declared, with many tears, that the old woman's face had been before her eyes all the time of it, and that she had not been able to get rid of the sight of her.</p> -<p class="normal">Now Mr. Lütkens's suspicions were not, it is true, enough to +<p class="normal">Now Mr. Lütkens's suspicions were not, it is true, enough to base any legal proceedings upon in the matter; but Heaven so ordered things that in a very short time all the infamous deeds which old Barbara had committed were brought into the clear light of day.</p> @@ -594,12 +556,12 @@ blast, high up through the air, over the housetops and the church steeples, and set down, none the worse for the trip, in a meadow close to Berlin.</p> <p class="normal">After this, of course, there could be no more doubt about the -"black art" of Barbara Roloffin. Lütkens lodged his plaint before the proper +"black art" of Barbara Roloffin. Lütkens lodged his plaint before the proper tribunal, and the woman was taken into custody. She denied everything obstinately, till she was put to the rack. Upon that, unable to endure the agony, she confessed that she had been in league with the Devil, and had practised magical arts for a very long time. She admitted that she had bewitched -poor Frau Lütkens, and foisted off the vile abortion upon her; and that, over +poor Frau Lütkens, and foisted off the vile abortion upon her; and that, over and above that, she had in company with two other witches belonging to Blumber killed and boiled several children of Christian parents, with the object of causing a famine in the land.</p> @@ -627,7 +589,7 @@ crashing down into extinction.</p> clearly that the distinguished stranger had been none other than the very Devil in person. He must have had some special grudge against the folks of Berlin, to whom he had so long behaved so smoothly and in such friendly fashion, and with -hellish deceit betrayed Councillor Lütkens and many other sapient men and women.</p> +hellish deceit betrayed Councillor Lütkens and many other sapient men and women.</p> <p class="normal">Such is the power of the Evil One; from whom and from all his snares may Heaven in its mercy defend us all.</p> @@ -645,7 +607,7 @@ that there is not too much of it."</p> deal, but towards the close he had become grave and silent. "I must admit," he said, "that in this little tale or 'prank'--for I don't know what else to call it--of Lothair's there predominates an attempt, often more or less successful, -at a certain sort of amusing <i>naïveté</i>, very appropriate to the character of the +at a certain sort of amusing <i>naïveté</i>, very appropriate to the character of the German Devil. Also, that when he talks about the Devil's jumping over the streets hand in hand with respectable townfolk and of the 'chestnut brown schismatic,' who might turn out a quaint and ugly <i>savant</i>, though never a nice, @@ -669,7 +631,7 @@ gives me an opportunity of speaking my mind concerning tales of this kind. And I am sure that my Serapion Brethren will agree with me. In the first place, Ottmar, I should like to trace out for you the germ of that unpleasant--or, better, 'uncanny'--feeling which you were conscious of when you were at first -beginning to see what you have called the 'amusing <i>naïveté</i>' of it. Whatever +beginning to see what you have called the 'amusing <i>naïveté</i>' of it. Whatever grounds the good old Hafftitz may have had for telling us that the Devil passed a certain time leading the life of a townsman of Berlin, this remains for us a wholly 'fanciful' or 'fantastic' incident. And the quality of the @@ -825,7 +787,7 @@ terrible that the mind is revolted by him."</p> in which this said mingling of the brightly Intellectual (verging sometimes on the comic) with the Terrific is very finely managed, and in which the full effectiveness of the old-world sort of devil-spook-story is carried out in a -masterly manner. I mean Fouqué's splendid tale, the 'Galgenmännlein.'[1] The +masterly manner. I mean Fouqué's splendid tale, the 'Galgenmännlein.'[1] The terribly vivacious little creature in the phial--who comes out of it at night, and lays himself down on the breast of that master of his, who has such awful dreams--the fearsome man in the mountain glen, with his great coal-black steed @@ -846,7 +808,7 @@ think of any tale of <i>diablerie</i> which has produced such an impression upon <br> -<p class="normal">"There can't be much doubt," said Theodore, "that Fouqué got +<p class="normal">"There can't be much doubt," said Theodore, "that Fouqué got the materials for that story out of some old chronicle."</p> <p class="normal">"Even if he did," Lothair said, "I should hope you wouldn't @@ -890,7 +852,7 @@ Chancery, Perturbations, Witchcraft Trials, and other delectable matters</span>.</p> <p class="continue">On the night of the autumnal equinox, Mr. Tussmann, a clerk in -the Privy Chancery, was making his way from the café, where he was in the habit +the Privy Chancery, was making his way from the café, where he was in the habit of passing an hour or two regularly every evening, towards his lodgings in Spandau Street. The Clerk of the Privy Chancery was excessively regular and punctilious in every action of his life. He always had just done taking off his @@ -996,7 +958,7 @@ which something--I have no idea what--has disturbed so tremendously."</p> <p class="normal">Tussmann was a most abstemious person. His sole recreation (for "dissipation" we cannot term it) consisted in his spending an hour or two -every evening in a café; where, whilst he read assiduously political and other +every evening in a café; where, whilst he read assiduously political and other articles in newspapers, as well as books which he brought with him, he sipped a glass of good beer. Wine he seldom touched, except that after service on Sundays he allowed himself a small glass of Malaga with a biscuit, in a certain @@ -1219,7 +1181,7 @@ Tower-windows in those days, so that it's a piece of pleasant glamour when an aerial form comes and tells us what is going to happen now, from knowledge of olden times. Let me tell you, this Berlin was a very different place in those old days; nowadays everything is marked with the same stamp of tediousness and -<i>ennui</i>, and people <i>ennuyer</i> one another just because they are so <i>ennuyées</i> +<i>ennui</i>, and people <i>ennuyer</i> one another just because they are so <i>ennuyées</i> and weary in themselves. In those days there were entertainments, feastings, rejoicings worthy the name, very different from the affairs that are so called now. I shall only speak of what was done at Oculi, in the year 1581, when the @@ -1235,7 +1197,7 @@ legs, just as if they had been naked---exactly as you see the heathen warriors painted in pictures. There were singers and musicians hidden inside a gilt Noah's Ark, and on the top of it sat a little boy in flesh-coloured silk tights, with his eyes bandaged, as Cupid is represented. Two other boys, dressed as -doves, with white ostrich feathers, golden eyes and beaks, drew ±he ark along; +doves, with white ostrich feathers, golden eyes and beaks, drew ±he ark along; and when the prince had run at the ring and been successful, the music in the ark played, and a number of pigeons were let fly from it. One of them flapped its wings and sang a most delightful Italian <i>aria</i>, and did it much better than @@ -1471,8 +1433,8 @@ me to draw your horoscope, which I did. Afterwards I often came to your father's house, and you didn't disdain to suck at the little bags of almonds and raisins which I used to bring you. Then, when you were about six or eight, I went away on my peregrinations. When I got back to Berlin I saw with satisfaction that -your father had sent you here from Münchberg to study the noble art of painting; -because there is not a very large collection in Münchberg of works adapted for +your father had sent you here from Münchberg to study the noble art of painting; +because there is not a very large collection in Münchberg of works adapted for fundamental study, either in the shape of pictures, statues, bronzes, gems, or other art-treasures of value. That good native town of yours can scarcely vie with Rome, Florence, or Dresden in that respect; or perhaps even with what @@ -1562,28 +1524,28 @@ not be a very easy matter. I keep thinking of a certain person who, in many respects, might have been an ancestor of mine: so marvellously like me in every respect, in body and mind too, that there are times not a few when I almost believe (perhaps it may be fancy) that I am that person. I mean a Swiss of the -name of Leonhard Turnhäuser zum Thurm, who lived at the court of the Elector +name of Leonhard Turnhäuser zum Thurm, who lived at the court of the Elector Johann Georg, about the year 1582. In those days, as you know, every chemist was supposed to be an alchemist, and every astronomer was called an astrologer; so -Turnhäuser was very probably both. It is certain, at all events, that he did +Turnhäuser was very probably both. It is certain, at all events, that he did most wonderful things, and, <i>inter alia</i>, was a very marvellous doctor. Unfortunately, he had a trick of putting his finger in every pie, and getting conspicuously mixed up in all that was going on. This made him envied and hated; just as people who have money and make a display with it, though it may be never so well earned, bring enemies about their throats. Thus it came about that -people made the Elector believe that Turnhäuser could make gold, and that, if he +people made the Elector believe that Turnhäuser could make gold, and that, if he did not do so, he had his reasons for so abstaining. Then his enemies came to the Elector and said--'See what a cunning, shameless rascal this is. He boasts of powers which he does not possess, and carries on sorceries and Jewish deceptions, for which he ought to be burned at the stake like Lippolt the Jew.' -Turnhäuser had been a goldsmith by trade, and this came out. Then everybody said +Turnhäuser had been a goldsmith by trade, and this came out. Then everybody said he had none of the knowledge imputed to him, though he had given the most incontrovertible proofs of it in open day. They even said that he had never, himself, written any of the sage and clever books and important prognostications which he published, but had paid others to do them. In short, envy, hatred, and calumny brought matters so far that he was obliged to leave Berlin in the most secret manner, to escape the fate of the Jew Lippolt; then his enemies said he -had gone to the Catholics for protection. But »that is not true. He went to +had gone to the Catholics for protection. But »that is not true. He went to Saxony, and worked at his trade there, though he did not give up the study and practice of his science."</p> @@ -1740,7 +1702,7 @@ the flowers and wafting their scents on its wings; and two nightingales were singing a lovely duetto in among the thick darkling leafage, in the tenderest accents of love-complaining.</p> -<p class="normal">Albertine began, quoting from Fouqué--</p> +<p class="normal">Albertine began, quoting from Fouqué--</p> <div class="poem"> <p class="i4">"A rustling, whisper'd singing</p> <p class="i6">Breaks thro' the leaves of spring,</p> @@ -1853,15 +1815,15 @@ you in his favour; and everybody liked him, though they laughed at the pedantry and awkwardness of his behaviour, which estranged him from the world. His passion was reading. He never went out but he had both his coat-pockets crammed full of books. He read wherever he was, and in all circumstances; walking or -standing, as he took his exercise, in church and in the café. He read +standing, as he took his exercise, in church and in the café. He read indiscriminately everything that came to his hand: but only out of old times, the present being hateful to him. Thus, to-day he would be studying, in the -café, a work on algebra; to-morrow, 'Frederick the Great's Cavalry Regulations,' +café, a work on algebra; to-morrow, 'Frederick the Great's Cavalry Regulations,' and next the remarkable book, 'Cicero proved to be a Pettifogger and a Windbag: in Ten Discourses. Anno 1720.' Moreover, he had a most extraordinary memory; he marked all the passages which particularly struck him in a book, then read all those marked passages over again, after which he never forgot them any more. -Hence he was a polyhistor, and a walking encyclopædia, and people turned over +Hence he was a polyhistor, and a walking encyclopædia, and people turned over the leaves of him when they wanted information on any point. It was only on the rarest occasions that he was unable to supply the information required on the spot, but, if he couldn't, he would go rummaging in various libraries till he @@ -2102,12 +2064,12 @@ home in a cab to Spandau Street.</p> <p class="normal">"And what's <i>your</i> news, Manasseh?" the Commissionsrath inquired. Manasseh simpered most deferentially, and with much amiability, and said Mr. Bosswinkel would scarcely be prepared for the news he had to tell him, -which was that that splendid young fellow, his nephew Benjamin Dümmerl, worth +which was that that splendid young fellow, his nephew Benjamin Dümmerl, worth close upon a million of money, had just been created a baron on account of his remarkable merits, was recently come back from Italy, and had fallen desperately in love with Miss Albertine, to whom he intended to offer his hand.</p> -<p class="normal">We see this young. Baron Dümmerl continually in the theatres, +<p class="normal">We see this young. Baron Dümmerl continually in the theatres, where he swaggers in a box of the first tier, and oftener still at concerts of every description. So that we well know him to be tall, and as thin as a broom-handle; that in his dusky yellow face, overshadowed by jetty locks and @@ -2117,7 +2079,7 @@ dresses in the most extravagant style of the very latest English fashion, speaks several languages, all in the self-same twang (that of "our people"); scrapes on a violin, hammers on the piano; is an art connoisseur without acknowledge of art, and would fain play -the part of a literary Mecænas; tries to be witty without wit, and <i>spirituel</i> +the part of a literary Mecænas; tries to be witty without wit, and <i>spirituel</i> without <i>esprit</i>; is stupidly forward, noisy, and pushing. In short, to use the concise and descriptive expression of that numerous class of individuals amongst whom his desire is to shove himself, an insufferable snob and boor. When we add @@ -2514,13 +2476,13 @@ in what is termed on the lyric stage "<i>ensemble</i>"--</p> <p class="normal">The Goldsmith fixed his sparkling, penetrating eyes on the two of them; but just as he was going to burst out at them, the door opened, and in -came Manasseh, with his nephew, Baron Benjamin Dümmerl, from Vienna. "Benjie" +came Manasseh, with his nephew, Baron Benjamin Dümmerl, from Vienna. "Benjie" went straight up to Albertine--who had never seen him in her life before--and said, in a disagreeable, drawling tone, as he took her hand--</p> <p class="normal">"I have come here in person, dear Miss Bosswinkel, to lay -myself at your feet. Of course you know that is a mere <i>façon de parler</i>. Baron -Dümmerl doesn't really lay himself at anybody's feet, not even at the Emperor's. +myself at your feet. Of course you know that is a mere <i>façon de parler</i>. Baron +Dümmerl doesn't really lay himself at anybody's feet, not even at the Emperor's. What I mean is--let me have a kiss."</p> <p class="normal">So saying, he went nearer to Albertine, and bent down towards @@ -3013,7 +2975,7 @@ picture back, the scoundrel? Ay; that he must, the first thing in the morning.&q which I have great doubts) how much the better would you be? He's making a copper etching of you, as I have just described you. He'll have several hundred copies thrown off, touch them up himself <i>con amore</i>, and send them all over the -world--to Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, London even."</p> +world--to Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, London even."</p> <p class="normal">"Stop, stop," Bosswinkel cried; "go, as fast as you can, to this terrible fellow; offer him fifty, yes, offer him a hundred thalers if he @@ -3022,15 +2984,15 @@ will let this business about my portrait remain in <i>statu quo</i>."</p> <p class="normal">"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the Goldsmith; "you forget that Lehsen doesn't care a fiddlestick about money. His people are well off. His grand-aunt, Miss Lehsen, who lives in Broad Street, is going -to leave him all her money, £12,000 at the very least."</p> +to leave him all her money, £12,000 at the very least."</p> <p class="normal">"What," the Commissionsrath cried, pale with the suddenness of -his amazement, "£12,000. I tell you what it is. I believe Albertine is crazy +his amazement, "£12,000. I tell you what it is. I believe Albertine is crazy about young Lehsen, and I'm not a bad-hearted fellow. I am an affectionate father; can't bear crying, and all that sort of thing. When she sets her heart on a thing, I can't refuse her. Besides, I like the fellow; he's a first-rate painter, you know; and where Art is concerned I'm a perfect gaby. There are a -great many capital points about Lehsen. £12,000. I'll tell you what it is, +great many capital points about Lehsen. £12,000. I'll tell you what it is, Leonhard, just out of mere goodheartedness, I shall let this nice young fellow have my daughter."</p> @@ -3046,7 +3008,7 @@ Privy Chancery will carry out his idea of jumping into that basin. Think what a sensation the suicide of a person of Tussmann's 'respectability' will create. Everybody will consider that you, and no other, are responsible for his death. You will be looked upon with horror and contempt. Nobody will ask you to dinner, -and if you go to a café to see what's in the papers, you will be shown to the +and if you go to a café to see what's in the papers, you will be shown to the door, or kicked downstairs; and more than that, Tussmann bears the very highest character in his profession. All his superiors have a very high opinion of him; the Government departments think him a most valuable official. If you are @@ -3064,7 +3026,7 @@ have been such a goose at his time of life? But you are quite right; whatever happens, I must keep my word to him, or I'm a ruined man. Yes, it is so ordained, Tussmann must marry Albertine."</p> -<p class="normal">"You're forgetting all about Baron Dümmerl," said the +<p class="normal">"You're forgetting all about Baron Dümmerl," said the Goldsmith, "and Manasseh's terrible curse. In him, if you reject Baron Benjie, you have the most fearful enemy. He will oppose you in all your speculations; will stick at no means of injuring your credit, take every possible opportunity @@ -3165,7 +3127,7 @@ voice:--</p> <p class="normal">"My dear child, lay aside all grief and anxiety. Edmund Lehsen, whom, at present at all events, you believe you love, is a special -<i>protégé</i> of mine; and I am helping him with all the power at my command. Let me +<i>protégé</i> of mine; and I am helping him with all the power at my command. Let me further tell you that it was I who put the lottery idea into your father's head; that I am going to provide and prepare the caskets, and, of course, you see that no one but Edmund will find your portrait."</p> @@ -3190,10 +3152,10 @@ himself, and who he really was.</p> easy matter for me to tell you exactly who I am. Like many others, I know much better whom I take other people for than what I really and truly am myself. But I may tell you, my dear, that many think I am none other than that Leonhard -Turnhäuser the Goldsmith, who was such a famous character at the court of the +Turnhäuser the Goldsmith, who was such a famous character at the court of the Elector Johann Georg, in the year 1580, and who disappeared, none knew how or where, when envy and calumny tried to ruin him; and if the members of the -imaginative or romantic school say that I am this Turnhäuser, a spectral being, +imaginative or romantic school say that I am this Turnhäuser, a spectral being, you may imagine what I have to suffer at the hands of the solid and enlightened portion of the community, the respectable citizens, and the men of business, who think they have something better to do than to bother their heads about poetry @@ -3207,7 +3169,7 @@ plenty of people of the same way of thinking with those of the aesthetic school, who will never be able to swallow me, historically speaking, who will never be able to bring themselves to believe that I ever really existed at all. So that, just that I might manage to get something like a more or less firm footing, I -have never ventured to say, in so many words, that I am Leonard Turnhäuser, the +have never ventured to say, in so many words, that I am Leonard Turnhäuser, the Goldsmith of the sixteenth century. The folks in question are quite welcome to say, if they please, that I am a clever conjurer, and find the explanations of every one of my tricks (as they may style the phenomena and the results which I @@ -3216,7 +3178,7 @@ one more 'feat,' as they would call it, to perform, which neither Philidor, nor Philadelphia, nor Cagliostro, nor any other conjurer would be able to do, and which, being completely inexplicable, must always remain a stumbling-block to the kind of people in question. But I cannot help performing it, because it is -indispensable to the <i>dénouement</i> of this Berlinese tale of the Choice of a +indispensable to the <i>dénouement</i> of this Berlinese tale of the Choice of a Bride by three personages, suitors for the hand of Miss Albertine Bosswinkel. So keep up your heart, my dear child, rise to-morrow morning in good time, put on the dress which you like the best, because it is the most becoming you happen to @@ -3473,7 +3435,7 @@ lines--</p> </div> <p class="normal">And Edmund, like Bassanio, followed the counsel of the last line, and pressed his blushing sweetheart to his breast, and kissed her glowing -lips; whilst the Commissionsrath greatly rejoiced, and was full of happiness over this happy <i>dénouement</i> of this most +lips; whilst the Commissionsrath greatly rejoiced, and was full of happiness over this happy <i>dénouement</i> of this most involved love-affair.</p> <p class="normal">Meanwhile the Baron had been filing at ducats quite as eagerly @@ -5527,7 +5489,7 @@ which he told me of, in writing, and which I know he has finished and brought with him."</p> <p class="normal">"Our having been talking of Voltaire," said Sylvester, "may -lead us to think of his 'Siècle de Louis XIV.,' and of that period itself, in +lead us to think of his 'Siècle de Louis XIV.,' and of that period itself, in which I have laid the scenes of the story which I now venture, with all modesty, to submit, hoping for your favourable opinion."</p> @@ -5539,14 +5501,14 @@ to submit, hoping for your favourable opinion."</p> <p class="center"><span class="sc">A Tale Of The Times Of Louis The Fourteenth.</span></p> <p class="normal">Magdaleine Scuderi, so famous for her charming poetical and -other writings, lived in a small mansion in the Rue St. Honoré, by favour of +other writings, lived in a small mansion in the Rue St. Honoré, by favour of Louis the 14th and Madame Maintenon.</p> <p class="normal">Late one night--about midnight--in the autumn of the year 1680, there came a knocking at the door of this house, so loud and violent that it shook the very ground. Baptiste, who filled the offices of cook, butler, and doorkeeper in the lady's modest establishment, had gone, by her leave, to the -country to his sister's wedding, so that La Martinière, the <i>femme de chambre</i>, +country to his sister's wedding, so that La Martinière, the <i>femme de chambre</i>, was the only person still awake in the house. She heard this knocking, which went on without ceasing almost, and she remembered that, as Baptiste was away, she and her mistress were alone and unprotected. She thought of the @@ -5577,12 +5539,12 @@ figure, in a long grey cloak, with a broad hat drawn down over the forehead. Then she cried, in a loud voice, so that this person in the street should hear, "Baptiste! Claude! Pierre! Get up, and see who this rascal is who is trying to get in at this time of night." But a gentle, entreating voice spake from -beneath, saying, "Ah, La Martinière, I know it is you, you kind soul, though you +beneath, saying, "Ah, La Martinière, I know it is you, you kind soul, though you are trying to alter your voice; and I know well enough that Baptiste is away in the country, and that there is nobody in the house but your mistress and yourself. Let me in. I <i>must</i> speak with your lady this instant."</p> -<p class="normal">"Do you imagine," asked La Martinière, "that my lady is going +<p class="normal">"Do you imagine," asked La Martinière, "that my lady is going to speak to you in the middle of the night? Can't you understand that she has been in bed ever so long, and that it is as much as my place is worth to awaken her out of her first sweet sleep, which is so precious to a person at her time @@ -5591,7 +5553,7 @@ of life?"</p> <p class="normal">"I know," answered the person beneath, "that she has just this moment put away the manuscript of the novel 'Clelia,' at which she is working so hard, and is writing some verses which she means to read to-morrow at Madame de -Maintenon's. I implore you, Madame La Martinière, be so compassionate as to open +Maintenon's. I implore you, Madame La Martinière, be so compassionate as to open the door. Upon your doing so depends the escape of an unfortunate creature from destruction. Nay, honour, freedom, a human life, depend on this moment in which I <i>must</i> speak with your lady. Remember, her anger will rest upon you for ever @@ -5599,28 +5561,28 @@ when she comes to know that it was you who cruelly drove away from her door the unfortunate wretch who came to beg for her help."</p> <p class="normal">"But why should you come for her help at such an extraordinary -time of the night?" asked La Martinière. "Come back in the morning at a +time of the night?" asked La Martinière. "Come back in the morning at a reasonable hour." But the reply came up, "Does destiny, when it strikes like the destroying lightning, consider hours and times? When there is but one moment when rescue is possible, is help to be put off? Open me the door. Have no fear of a wretched being who is without defence, hunted, under the pressure of a terrible fate, and flies to your lady for succour from the most imminent peril."</p> -<p class="normal">La Martinière heard the stranger moaning and groaning as he +<p class="normal">La Martinière heard the stranger moaning and groaning as he uttered those words in the deepest sorrow, and the tone of his voice was that of a youth, soft and gentle, and going profoundly to the heart. She was deeply touched, and without much more hesitation she went and fetched the key.</p> <p class="normal">As soon as she opened the door, the form shrouded in the -mantle burst violently in, and passing La Martinière, cried in a wild voice, -"Take me to your lady!" La Martinière held up the light which she was carrying, +mantle burst violently in, and passing La Martinière, cried in a wild voice, +"Take me to your lady!" La Martinière held up the light which she was carrying, and the glimmer fell on the face of a very young man, distorted and frightfully drawn, and as pale as death. She almost fell down on the landing for terror when he opened his cloak and showed the glittering hilt of a stiletto sticking in his doublet. He flashed his gleaming eyes at her, and cried, more wildly than before, "Take me to your lady, I tell you."</p> -<p class="normal">La Martinière saw that her mistress was in the utmost danger. +<p class="normal">La Martinière saw that her mistress was in the utmost danger. All her affection for her, who was to her as the kindest of mothers, flamed up and created a courage which she herself would scarcely have thought herself capable of. She quickly closed the door of her room, moved rapidly in front of @@ -5631,7 +5593,7 @@ easily. My lady you shall not see or speak with at this hour. If you have no bad designs, and are not afraid to show yourself in daylight, come and tell her your business to-morrow; but take yourself off out of this house now."</p> -<p class="normal">He heaved a hollow sigh, glared at La Martinière with a +<p class="normal">He heaved a hollow sigh, glared at La Martinière with a terrible expression, and grasped his dagger. She silently commended her soul to God, but stood firm and looked him straight in the face, pressing herself more firmly against the door through which he would have to pass in order to reach @@ -5639,12 +5601,12 @@ her mistress.</p> <p class="normal">"Let me get to your lady, I tell you!" he cried once more.</p> -<p class="normal">"Do what you will," said La Martinière, "I shall not move from +<p class="normal">"Do what you will," said La Martinière, "I shall not move from this spot. Finish the crime which you have begun to commit. A shameful death on -the Place de Grève will overtake you, as it has your accursed comrades in +the Place de Grève will overtake you, as it has your accursed comrades in wickedness."</p> -<p class="normal">"Ha! you are right, La Martinière," he cried. "I am armed, and +<p class="normal">"Ha! you are right, La Martinière," he cried. "I am armed, and I look as if I were an accursed robber and murderer. But my comrades are not executed--are not executed," and he drew his dagger, advancing with poisonous looks towards the terrified woman. </p> @@ -5653,7 +5615,7 @@ looks towards the terrified woman. </p> moment there came up from the street below the clatter and the ring of arms, and the hoof-tread of horses.</p> -<p class="normal">"La Marechaussée! La Marechaussée! Help! help!" she cried.</p> +<p class="normal">"La Marechaussée! La Marechaussée! Help! help!" she cried.</p> <p class="normal">"Wretched woman, you will be my destruction," he cried. "All is over now--all over! Here, take it; take it. Give this to your lady now, or @@ -5662,7 +5624,7 @@ candelabra from her, blew out the tapers, and placed a casket in her hands. &quo you prize your eternal salvation," he cried, "give this to your lady." He dashed out of the door, and was gone.</p> -<p class="normal">La Martinière had sunk to the floor. She raised herself with +<p class="normal">La Martinière had sunk to the floor. She raised herself with difficulty, and groped her way back in the darkness to her room, where, wholly overcome and unable to utter a sound, she fell into an arm-chair. Presently she heard the bolts rattle, which she had left @@ -5673,21 +5635,21 @@ joy, the door opened, and by the pale light of the night-lamp she saw it was Baptiste. He was deadly pale, and much upset. "For the love of all the saints," he exclaimed, "tell me what has happened! Oh, what a state I am in! Something--I don't know what it was--told me to come away from the wedding yesterday--forced -me to come away. So when I got to this street, I thought, Madame Martinière +me to come away. So when I got to this street, I thought, Madame Martinière isn't a heavy sleeper; she'll hear me if I knock quietly at the door, and let me in. Then up came a strong patrol meeting me, horsemen and foot, armed to the teeth. They stopped me, and wouldn't let me go. Luckily Desgrais was there, the -lieutenant of the Marechaussée. He knows me, and as they were holding their +lieutenant of the Marechaussée. He knows me, and as they were holding their lanterns under my nose, he said, 'Ho, Baptiste! How come you here in the streets at this time of the night? You ought to be at home, taking care of the house. This is not a very safe spot just at this moment. We're expecting to make a fine -haul, an important arrest, to-night.' You can't think, Madame La Martinière, how +haul, an important arrest, to-night.' You can't think, Madame La Martinière, how I felt when he said that. And when I got to the door, lo! and behold! a man in a cloak comes bursting out with a drawn dagger in his hand, runs round me, and makes off. The door was open, the keys in the lock. What, in the name of all that's holy, is the meaning of it all?"</p> -<p class="normal">La Martinière, relieved from her alarm, told him all that had +<p class="normal">La Martinière, relieved from her alarm, told him all that had happened, and both she and he went back to the hall, where they found the candelabra on the floor, where the stranger had thrown it on taking his flight. "There can't be the slightest doubt that our mistress was within an ace of being @@ -5696,7 +5658,7 @@ say, the scoundrel knew well enough that there was nobody in the house but her and you, and even that she was still sitting up at her writing. Of course he was one of those infernal blackguards who pry into folks' houses and spy out everything that can be of use to them in their devilish designs. And the little -casket, Madame Martinière, that, I think, we'll throw into the Seine where it's +casket, Madame Martinière, that, I think, we'll throw into the Seine where it's deepest. Who shall be our warrant that some monster or other isn't lying in wait for our mistress's life? Very likely, if she opens the casket, she may tumble down dead, as the old Marquis de Tournay did when he opened a letter which came @@ -5755,12 +5717,12 @@ of an irresistible passion. Just as a chemist makes experiments for the pleasure and the interest of watching them, poisoners have often, without the smallest ulterior object, killed persons whose living or dying was to them a matter of complete indifference. The sudden deaths of a number of paupers, patients at the -Hôtel Dieu, a little time after the events just alluded to, led to suspicion +Hôtel Dieu, a little time after the events just alluded to, led to suspicion that the bread which La Brinvilliers was in the habit of giving them every week (by way of an example of piety and benevolence) was poisoned. And it is certain that she poisoned pigeon pasties which were served up to guests whom she had invited. The Chevalier du Guet, and many more, were the victims of those -diabolical entertainments. Sainte-Croix, his accomplice La Chaussée, and La +diabolical entertainments. Sainte-Croix, his accomplice La Chaussée, and La Brinvilliers, managed to hide their crimes for a long while under a veil of impenetrable secrecy. But, however the wicked may brazen matters out, there comes a time when the Eternal Power of Heaven punishes the criminal, even here @@ -5774,15 +5736,15 @@ phial, and, having inhaled some of the powder, he fell dead in an instant. As he had no heirs, the law courts at once placed his property under seal, when the whole diabolical arsenal of poison-murder which had been at the villain's disposal was discovered, and also the letters of Madame de Brinvilliers, which -left no doubt as to her crimes. She fled to a convent at Liège. Desgrais, an -officer of the Marechaussée, was sent after her. Disguised as a priest, he got +left no doubt as to her crimes. She fled to a convent at Liège. Desgrais, an +officer of the Marechaussée, was sent after her. Disguised as a priest, he got admitted into the convent, and succeeded in involving the terrible woman in a love-affair, and in getting her to grant him a clandestine meeting in a sequestered garden outside the town. When she arrived there she found herself surrounded by Desgrais' myrmidons; and her ecclesiastical gallant speedily -transformed himself into the officer of the Marechaussée, and compelled her to +transformed himself into the officer of the Marechaussée, and compelled her to get into the carriage which was waiting outside the garden, and drove straight -away to Paris, surrounded by an ample guard. La Chaussée had been beheaded +away to Paris, surrounded by an ample guard. La Chaussée had been beheaded previously to this, and La Brinvilliers suffered the same death. Her body was burnt, and its ashes scattered to the winds.</p> @@ -5822,7 +5784,7 @@ Croix, and, like him, prepared the delicate, traceless poison, which helped wicked sons to speedy inheritance and unprincipled wives to other, younger husbands. Desgrais fathomed her secrets; she made full confession; the Chambre Ardente sentenced her to be burned, and the sentence was carried out on the -Place de Grève. Amongst her effects was found a list of those who had availed +Place de Grève. Amongst her effects was found a list of those who had availed themselves of her services; whence it followed, not only that execution succeeded execution, but that strong suspicion fell on persons of high consideration. Thus it was believed that Cardinal Bonzy had obtained from La @@ -5847,7 +5809,7 @@ he excited the hatred of those whose avenger or protector he was called upon to be. When he asked the Duchess de Bouillon if she had ever seen the devil, she answered, "I think I see him at this moment."</p> -<p class="normal">Whilst now, on the Place de Grève, the blood of the guilty and +<p class="normal">Whilst now, on the Place de Grève, the blood of the guilty and of the merely suspected was flowing in streams, and secret deaths by poison were, at last, becoming more and more rare, a trouble of another description showed itself, spreading abroad fresh consternation. It seemed that a gang of @@ -5997,7 +5959,7 @@ that Louis, the bright pole-star of love and gallantry, might deign--arising and shining in fullest splendour--to dispel the darkness of night, and thus reveal the black mysteries hidden thereby; that the God-like hero, who had hurled his foes to the dust, would now once more wave his flashing faulchion, and, as did -Hercules in the case of the Lærnean Hydra, and Theseus in that of the Minotaur, +Hercules in the case of the Lærnean Hydra, and Theseus in that of the Minotaur, vanquish the threatening monster who was eating up all love-delight, and darkening all joy into deep sorrow and inconsolable mourning.</p> @@ -6043,7 +6005,7 @@ sails of the poem, with all its ell-long tirades--cried, with flashing eyes--</p touching the innocent and the guilty alike, shall shelter cowardice. Argenson and La Regnie must do their best."</p> -<p class="normal">Next morning La Martinière enlarged upon the terrors of the +<p class="normal">Next morning La Martinière enlarged upon the terrors of the time, painting them in glowing colours to her lady, when she told her all that had happened the previous night, and handed her the mysterious casket, with much fear and trembling. Both she and Baptiste (who stood in the corner as white as a @@ -6059,16 +6021,16 @@ never persecuted any evil-doers except those in her own novels; who writes mediocre poetry, incapable of exciting any one's envy; who has nothing to leave behind her but the belongings of an old maid, who sometimes goes to Court, and two or three dozen handsomely-bound books with gilt edges. And, alarming as your -account is, La Martinière, of the apparition of this man, I cannot believe that +account is, La Martinière, of the apparition of this man, I cannot believe that he meant me any harm, so----"</p> -<p class="normal">La Martinière sprang three paces backwards, and Baptiste fell +<p class="normal">La Martinière sprang three paces backwards, and Baptiste fell on one knee with a hollow, "Ah!" as Mademoiselle Scuderi pressed a projecting steel knob, and the lid of the casket flew open with a certain amount of noise.</p> <p class="normal">Great was her surprise to see that it contained a pair of bracelets, and a necklace richly set in jewels. She took them out and as she -spoke in admiration of the marvellous workmanship of the necklace, La Martinière +spoke in admiration of the marvellous workmanship of the necklace, La Martinière cast glances of wonder at the bracelets, and cried, again and again, that Madame Montespan herself did not possess such jewelry.</p> @@ -6077,7 +6039,7 @@ Montespan herself did not possess such jewelry.</p> the casket, and in this she rightly thought she would find the key to the mystery. When she had read what was written in the note, it fell from her trembling hands; she raised an appealing look to heaven, and then sank down half -fainting in her chair. Baptiste and La Martinière hurried to her, in alarm. +fainting in her chair. Baptiste and La Martinière hurried to her, in alarm. "Oh!" she cried, in a voice stifled by tears, "the mortification! The deep humiliation! Has it been reserved for me to undergo this in my old age? Have I ever been frivolous, like some of the foolish young creatures? Are words, spoken @@ -6086,11 +6048,11 @@ have been faithful to all that is pure and good from my childhood, to be made virtually an accomplice in the crimes of this terrible confederation?"</p> <p class="normal">She held her handkerchief to her eyes, so that Baptiste and La -Martinière, altogether at sea in their anxious conjectures, felt powerless to +Martinière, altogether at sea in their anxious conjectures, felt powerless to set about helping her, who was so dear to them, as the best and kindest of mistresses, in her bitter affliction.</p> -<p class="normal">La Martinière picked up the paper from the floor. On it was +<p class="normal">La Martinière picked up the paper from the floor. On it was written--</p> <div class="poem"> <p class="i6">"Un amant qui craint les voleurs</p> @@ -6111,14 +6073,14 @@ be carried further by human beings?" The sun was shining brightly through t window curtains of crimson silk, and consequently the brilliants, which were lying on the table beside the open casket, were flashing a rosy radiance. Looking at them, Mademoiselle Scuderi covered her face in horror, and ordered La -Martinière instantly to take those terrible jewels away, steeped, as they seemed -to be, in the blood of the murdered. La Martinière, having at once put the +Martinière instantly to take those terrible jewels away, steeped, as they seemed +to be, in the blood of the murdered. La Martinière, having at once put the necklace and bracelets back into their case, thought the best thing to do would be to give them to the Minister of Police, and tell him all that had happened.</p> <p class="normal">Mademoiselle Scuderi rose, and walked up and down slowly and in silence, as if considering what it was best to do. Then she told Baptiste to -bring a sedan chair, and La Martinière to dress her, as she was going straight +bring a sedan chair, and La Martinière to dress her, as she was going straight to the Marquise de Maintenon.</p> <p class="normal">She repaired thither at the hour when she knew Madame de @@ -6147,10 +6109,10 @@ goldsmith's work close to her eyes, so as to see with what wonderful skill each little link of the chains was formed.</p> <p class="normal">She turned suddenly to Mademoiselle Scuderi, and cried, "Do -you know, there is only one man who can have done this work--and that is René +you know, there is only one man who can have done this work--and that is René Cardillac."</p> -<p class="normal">René Cardillac was then the cleverest worker in gold in all +<p class="normal">René Cardillac was then the cleverest worker in gold in all Paris, one of the most artistic, and at the same time extraordinary men of his day. Short, rather than tall, but broad-shouldered, and of strong and muscular build, Cardillac, now over fifty, had still the strength and activity of a @@ -6182,7 +6144,7 @@ had to deliver some specially valuable and unusually rich piece of workmanship, worth perhaps several thousand francs, he would get into such a condition that he ran up and down like one demented, cursing himself, his work, and every thing and person about him; but should, then, some one come running up behind him, -crying, "René Cardillac, would you be so kind as to make me a beautiful necklace +crying, "René Cardillac, would you be so kind as to make me a beautiful necklace for the lady I am going to marry?" or "a pair of bracelets for my girl?" or the like, he would stop in a moment, flash his small eyes upon the speaker, and say, "Let me see what you have got." The latter would take out a little case, and @@ -6193,7 +6155,7 @@ light, and cry, "Ho! ho! common stones you say! Nothing of the kind!--very splendid stones! Just see what I shall make of them; and if a handful of Louis are no object to you, I will put two or three others along with them which will shine in your eyes like the sun himself!" The customer would say: "I leave the -matter entirely in your hands, Master René; make what charge you please." +matter entirely in your hands, Master René; make what charge you please." Whether the customer were a rich burgher or a gallant of quality, Cardillac would then throw himself violently on his neck, embrace him and kiss him, and say he was perfectly happy again, and that the work would be ready in eight @@ -6237,7 +6199,7 @@ deep annoyance, and turns away his face when he hands them over."</p> <p class="normal">Mademoiselle Scuderi, who was exceedingly anxious that the jewels which came into her possession in such an extraordinary manner should be -restored to their owner as speedily as possible, thought that this wondrous René +restored to their owner as speedily as possible, thought that this wondrous René Cardillac should be informed at once that no work was required of him, but simply his opinion as to certain stones. The Marquise agreed to this; he was sent for, and he came into the room in a very brief space, almost as if he had @@ -6254,7 +6216,7 @@ table--were his workmanship. Cardillac scarcely glanced at them, and, fixedly staring in her face, he hastily packed the necklace and bracelets into their case, and shoved them away with some violence. Then he said, with an evil smile gleaming on his red face, "The truth is, Madame la -Marquise, that one must know René Cardillac's handiwork very little to suppose, +Marquise, that one must know René Cardillac's handiwork very little to suppose, even for a moment, that any other goldsmith in the world made those. Of course, I made them." "Then," continued the Marquise, "say whom you made them for." "For myself alone," he answered. "You may think this strange," he continued, as they @@ -6267,7 +6229,7 @@ disappeared from my workshop a short time since, in an incomprehensible manner.& "Heaven be thanked!" cried Mademoiselle Scuderi, her eyes sparkling with joy. With a smile she sprang up from her seat, and going up to Cardillac quickly and actively as a young girl, she laid her hands on his shoulder, saying, "Take back -your treasure, Master René, which the villains have robbed you of!" And she +your treasure, Master René, which the villains have robbed you of!" And she circumstantially related how the ornaments had come into her possession.</p> <p class="normal">Cardillac listened in silence, with downcast eyes, merely from @@ -6281,7 +6243,7 @@ been holding out to him), sunk slowly on one knee, and said: "Esteemed lady Fate destined this casket for you; and I now feel, for the first time, that I was thinking of you when I was at work upon it--nay, was making it expressly for you. Do not disdain to accept this work, and to wear it; it is the best I have -done for a very long time." "Ah! Master René," said Mademoiselle Scuderi, +done for a very long time." "Ah! Master René," said Mademoiselle Scuderi, jesting pleasantly, "how think you it would become me at my age to bedeck myself with those beautiful jewels?--and what should put it in your mind to make me such a valuable present? Come, come! If I were as beautiful and as rich as the @@ -6300,7 +6262,7 @@ Maintenon took the casket from Cardillac's hands, saying, "Now, by heaven, Mademoiselle, you are always talking of your great age. What have you and I to do with years and their burden? You are like some bashful young thing who would fain long for forbidden fruit, if she could gather it without hands or fingers. -Do not hesitate to accept this good Master René's present, which thousands of +Do not hesitate to accept this good Master René's present, which thousands of others could not obtain for money or entreaty."</p> <p class="normal">As she spoke she continued to press the casket on Mademoiselle @@ -6310,7 +6272,7 @@ and tables, so that the glass and porcelain crashed and clattered together.</p> <p class="normal">In much alarm, Mademoiselle Scuderi cried, "In the name of all the saints, what is the matter with the man?" But the Marquise, in particularly -happy temper, laughed aloud, saying, "What it is, Mademoiselle; that Master René +happy temper, laughed aloud, saying, "What it is, Mademoiselle; that Master René is over head and ears in love with you, and, according to the laws of <i>la galanterie</i>, begins to lay siege to your heart with a valuable present." She carried this jest further, begging Mademoiselle Scuderi not to be too obdurate @@ -6335,7 +6297,7 @@ wild and eery. I cannot drive away from me a gloomy foreboding that there is some terrible and frightful mystery hidden behind all this; and yet, when I bring the whole affair, with all the circumstances of it, as clearly as I can before my mental vision, I cannot form the slightest idea what that mystery can -be--and, above all, how the good, honourable Master René--the very model of what +be--and, above all, how the good, honourable Master René--the very model of what a good, well-behaved citizen ought to be--can have anything to do with what is wicked or condemnable. But, at all events, I distinctly feel that I never can wear those jewels."</p> @@ -6345,9 +6307,9 @@ too far; yet, when Mademoiselle Scuderi asked her to say, on her honour, what she would do in her place, she replied, firmly and earnestly, "Far rather throw them into the Seine than ever put them on."</p> -<p class="normal">The scene with Master René inspired Mademoiselle Scuderi to +<p class="normal">The scene with Master René inspired Mademoiselle Scuderi to write some pleasant verses, which she read to the King the following evening, at -Madame de Maintenon's. Perhaps, for the sake of the picturing of Master René +Madame de Maintenon's. Perhaps, for the sake of the picturing of Master René carrying off a bride of seventy-three--of unimpeachable quarterings--it was that she succeeded in conquering her feelings of the imminence of something mysterious and uncanny; but at all events she did so, completely--and the King @@ -6368,13 +6330,13 @@ face, deadly pale, and drawn by sorrow. This young man, gazing fixedly upon them, vigorously fought his way to them by help of fists and elbows, till he reached the carriage-door, threw it open with much violence, and flung a note into Mademoiselle Scuderi's lap; after which, he disappeared as he had come, -distributing and receiving blows and fisticuffs. La Martinière, who was with her +distributing and receiving blows and fisticuffs. La Martinière, who was with her mistress, fell back fainting in the carriage with a shriek of terror as soon as she saw the young man. In vain Mademoiselle Scuderi pulled the string, and called out to the driver. He, as if urged by the foul fiend, kept lashing his horses till, scattering the foam from their nostrils, they kicked, plunged, and reared, finally thundering over the bridge at a rapid trot. Mademoiselle Scuderi -emptied the contents of her smelling-bottle out over the fainting La Martinière, +emptied the contents of her smelling-bottle out over the fainting La Martinière, who at last opened her eyes, and, shuddering and quaking, clinging convulsively to her mistress, with fear and horror in her pale face, groaned out with difficulty, "For the love of the Virgin, what did that terrible man want? It was @@ -6385,7 +6347,7 @@ opened it, and read as follows:--</p> <p class="normal">"A dark and cruel fatality, which <i>you</i> could dispel, is driving me into an abyss. I conjure you--as a son would a mother, in the glow of -filial affection--to send the necklace and bracelets to Master René Cardillac, +filial affection--to send the necklace and bracelets to Master René Cardillac, on some pretence or other--say, to have something altered, or improved. Your welfare---your very life--depend on your doing this. If you do not comply before the day after to-morrow, I will force my way into your house, and kill myself @@ -6414,7 +6376,7 @@ eternal one of the colonnade of the Louvre, to which the architectural Dr. Perrault was shackling him.</p> <p class="normal">When high noon arrived, Mademoiselle Scuderi had to go to -Madame Montansier, so the visit to René Cardillac had to be put off till the +Madame Montansier, so the visit to René Cardillac had to be put off till the following day. But the young man was always present to her mind, and a species of dim remembrance seemed to be trying to arise in the depths of her being that she had, somehow and somewhen, seen that face and features before. Troubled @@ -6426,7 +6388,7 @@ herself dressed, and set off to the goldsmith's with the jewels in her hand.</p> <p class="normal">A crowd was streaming towards the Rue Nicaise (where Cardillac lived), trooping together at the door, shouting, raging, surging, striving to -storm into the house, kept back with difficulty by the Marechaussée, who were +storm into the house, kept back with difficulty by the Marechaussée, who were guarding the place. Amid the wild distracted uproar, voices were heard crying, "Tear him in pieces! Drag him limb from limb, the accursed murderer!" At length Desgrais came up with a number of his men, and formed a lane through the @@ -6436,7 +6398,7 @@ populace. At the moment when Mademoiselle Scuderi, half dead with terror and gloomy foreboding, caught sight of him, a piercing shriek of lamentation struck upon her ears. "Go forward!" she cried to the coachman, and he, with a clever, rapid turn of his horses, scattered the thick masses -of the crowd aside, and pulled up close to René Cardillac's +of the crowd aside, and pulled up close to René Cardillac's door. Desgrais was there, and at his feet a young girl, beautiful as the day, half-dressed, with dishevelled hair, and wild grief, inconsolable despair in her face, holding his knees embraced, and crying in tones of the bitterest and @@ -6453,7 +6415,7 @@ deferentially; and when she saw that one or two compassionate women had lifted up the girl, laid her on the steps, and were rubbing her brow with strong waters, she went up to Desgrais, and with eagerness repeated her question.</p> -<p class="normal">"A terrible thing has happened," said Desgrais. "René +<p class="normal">"A terrible thing has happened," said Desgrais. "René Cardillac was found, this morning, killed by a dagger-thrust. His journeyman, Olivier, is the murderer, and has just been taken to prison."</p> @@ -6505,7 +6467,7 @@ order, and how he had with the utmost difficulty carried him home, not supposing him to be mortally wounded. As soon as it was day, the people of the house--who had heard the sounds of the footsteps, and of the weeping and lamenting during the night--came up, and found them still kneeling, inconsolable by the father's -body. Then an uproar commenced, the Marechaussée broke in and Olivier was taken +body. Then an uproar commenced, the Marechaussée broke in and Olivier was taken to prison as her father's murderer. Madelon added the most touching account of Olivier's virtues, goodness, piety, and sincerity, telling how he had honoured his master as if he had been his own father, and how the latter returned his @@ -6583,7 +6545,7 @@ severity and barbarity; therefore, permit me to place before your eyes in few words the bloodguilt of this young criminal, upon whom, Heaven be thanked, vengeance has fallen. Your acute intelligence will then despise the generous feeling and kindliness which do honour to you, but in me would be out of place. -Eh bien! this morning René +Eh bien! this morning René Cardillac is found murdered by a dagger-thrust, no one is by him except his workman, Olivier Brusson and the daughter. In Olivier's room there is found, amongst other things, a dagger covered with fresh blood which exactly fits into @@ -6632,7 +6594,7 @@ for them!" "Share!--murder for others!" cried Mademoiselle Scuder amaze.</p> <p class="normal">"You must learn, Mademoiselle," continued La Regnie, "that -Olivier's blood would have been flowing on the Place de Grève before this time, +Olivier's blood would have been flowing on the Place de Grève before this time, but that his crime is connected with that deeply-hidden mystery which has so long brooded over Paris. It is clear that Olivier belongs to that formidable band which, setting at defiance every attempt at observation or discovery, @@ -6654,7 +6616,7 @@ about her father. Her tears are all for the murderer boy."</p> <p class="normal">"What?" cried Mademoiselle Scuderi, "not for her father?--that girl--impossible!" "Oh!" continued La Regnie, "remember the Brinvilliers! You must pardon me, if by-and-by I have to carry off -your <i>protégée</i>, and put her in the Conciergerie."</p> +your <i>protégée</i>, and put her in the Conciergerie."</p> <p class="normal">Mademoiselle Scuderi shuddered at this grizly notion. It seemed to her that no truth or virtue could endure before this terrible man; as @@ -6721,7 +6683,7 @@ her voice as much calmness and gravity as she could, said, "Go! go!--be tha that the murderer awaits the just punishment of his crime. May the Holy Virgin grant that blood-guiltiness does not weigh heavily on your own head also." With a bitter cry of "Alas! then all is over!" Madelon fell fainting to the ground. -Mademoiselle Scuderi left her to the care of La Martinière, and went to another +Mademoiselle Scuderi left her to the care of La Martinière, and went to another room.</p> <p class="normal">Much distressed, and at variance with all earthly things, she @@ -6730,7 +6692,7 @@ She complained of the destiny which had granted her so many years in which to strengthen her belief in truth and virtue, only to shatter in her old days the beautiful fancies which had illumined her path.</p> -<p class="normal">She heard Madelon, as La Martinière was leading her away, +<p class="normal">She heard Madelon, as La Martinière was leading her away, murmur in broken accents, "<i>Her</i>, too, have the terrible men deceived. Ah! wretched me!--miserable Olivier!" The tones of the voice went to her heart, and again there dawned within her the belief in the existence of some mystery, in @@ -6756,7 +6718,7 @@ light an atrocious deed of blood did not lie in your hands, had you not already taken such interest (as well as bearing a part), in this case, which is keeping the Chambre Ardente, and all of us, in a state of such breathless eagerness. Olivier Brusson, since he saw you, has been almost out of his mind. He still -swears by all that is sacred, that he is completely innocent of René Cardillac's +swears by all that is sacred, that he is completely innocent of René Cardillac's death, though he is ready to suffer the punishment he has deserved. Observe, Mademoiselle, that the latter admission clearly refers to other crimes of which he has been guilty. But all attempts to get him to utter anything further have @@ -6911,13 +6873,13 @@ much better than himself. Once a stranger came to our workshop to buy some of our work. When he saw a necklace of my making, he patted my shoulder in a kind way, and said, looking with admiration at the necklace, 'Ah, ha! my young friend, this is really first-class work, I don't know anybody who could beat it -but René Cardillac, who, of course, is the greatest of all goldsmiths. You ought +but René Cardillac, who, of course, is the greatest of all goldsmiths. You ought to go to him; he would be delighted to get hold of you, for there's nobody but yourself who would be of such use to him; and again, there's nobody but he who can teach you anything.' The words of this stranger sunk deep into my heart. There was no more peace for me in Geneva. I was powerfully impelled to leave it, and at length I succeeded in getting free from my master. I came to Paris, where -René Cardillac received me coldly and harshly. But I stuck to my point. He was +René Cardillac received me coldly and harshly. But I stuck to my point. He was obliged to give me something to try my hand at, however trifling. So I got a ring to finish. When I took it back to him, finished, he gazed at me with those sparkling eyes of his, as if he would look me through and through. Then he said: @@ -6979,13 +6941,13 @@ about?' I cried aloud. 'Curses upon you!' he cried, and, running by me with lightning speed, disappeared. Quite beyond myself--scarcely able to walk a step--I went up to the gentleman on the ground, and knelt down beside him, thinking it might still be possible to save him. But there was no -trace of life left in him. In my alarm I scarcely noticed that the Marechaussée +trace of life left in him. In my alarm I scarcely noticed that the Marechaussée had come up and surrounded me. 'Another one laid low by the demons!' they cried, all speaking at once. 'Ah, ha! youngster! what are you doing here?--are <i>you</i> one of the band?' and they seized me. I stammered out in the best way I could that I was incapable of such a terrible deed, and that they must let me go. Then one of them held a lantern to my face, and said, with a laugh: 'This is Olivier -Brusson; the goldsmith who works with our worthy Master René Cardillac. <i>He</i> +Brusson; the goldsmith who works with our worthy Master René Cardillac. <i>He</i> murder folks in the street!--very likely story! Who ever heard of a murderer lamenting over the body, and letting himself be nabbed? Tell us all about it, my lad; out with it straight.' 'Right before my eyes,' I said, 'a man sprang out @@ -7005,7 +6967,7 @@ Cardillac's deed of blood, committed on the spot, came clearly back to my mental vision. I ran away in horror.</p> <p class="normal">"With my mind in a whirl, almost unconscious, I was sitting in -my garret, when the door opened, and René Cardillac came in. 'For Christ's sake! +my garret, when the door opened, and René Cardillac came in. 'For Christ's sake! what do you want?' I cried. He, paying no heed to this, came up to me, smiling at me with a calmness and urbanity which increased my inward horror. He drew forward an old rickety stool, and sat down beside me; for I was unable to rise @@ -7052,9 +7014,9 @@ her."</p> was obliged to pause. Mademoiselle Scuderi, horrified at the crime of a man whom she had looked on as the incarnation of probity and goodness, cried--</p> -<p class="normal">"Dreadful!--René Cardillac a member of that band of murderers +<p class="normal">"Dreadful!--René Cardillac a member of that band of murderers who have so long made Paris into a robber's den!" "A member of the band, do you -say, Mademoiselle?" said Olivier. "There never was any band; it was René +say, Mademoiselle?" said Olivier. "There never was any band; it was René Cardillac alone, who sought and found his victims with such an amount of diabolical ingenuity and activity. It was in the fact of his being alone that his impunity lay--the practical impossibility of coming upon the murderer's @@ -7074,7 +7036,7 @@ pierced my heart when I thought that, if ever vengeance should overtake this masked criminal, she would be the victim of the most terrible despair. That, of itself, closed my lips, though the consequence of my silence should be a criminal's death for myself. Although much was to be gathered from what the -Marechaussée had said, still Cardillac's crimes, their motive, and the manner in +Marechaussée had said, still Cardillac's crimes, their motive, and the manner in which he carried them out, were a riddle to me. The solution of it soon came. One day Cardillac--who usually excited my horror by laughing and jesting during our work, in the highest of spirits--was very grave and thoughtful. Suddenly he @@ -7151,7 +7113,7 @@ the depths of my heart I began to long to kill them; this frightened me. Just then I bought this house. I had concluded the bargain with the owner: here in this very room we were sitting, drinking a bottle of wine in honour of the transaction. Night had come on, he was going to leave when he said to me: 'Look -here, Maitre René, before I go I must let you into a secret about this house.' +here, Maitre René, before I go I must let you into a secret about this house.' He opened that cupboard, which is let into the wall there, and pushed the back of it in; this let him into a little closet, where he bowed down and raised a trap-door. This showed us a steep, narrow stair, which we went down, and at the @@ -7250,7 +7212,7 @@ when I set to work at it, so that I left it off altogether. Now it seems to me that, in presenting Mademoiselle Scuderi with the finest work I have ever turned out, I am offering a humble sacrifice to goodness and virtue personified, and imploring their powerful intercession.' Cardillac, well acquainted with all the -minutiæ of your manner of life, told me the how and the when to take the +minutiæ of your manner of life, told me the how and the when to take the ornaments to you. My whole Being rejoiced, for Heaven seemed to be showing me, through the atrocious Cardillac, the way to escape from the hell in which I was being tortured. Quite contrarily to Cardillac's wish, I resolved that I would @@ -7284,7 +7246,7 @@ after the evening prayer, he had shut himself up in his room as usual, I got into the courtyard through a window, slipped out through the opening of the wall, and stationed myself close at hand, in the deepest shadow. Very soon Cardillac came out, and went gliding softly down the street. I followed him. He -took the direction of the Rue St. Honoré. My heart beat fast. All at once he +took the direction of the Rue St. Honoré. My heart beat fast. All at once he disappeared from me. I determined to place myself at your door. Just as fate had ordered matters on the first occasion of my witnessing one of his crimes, there came along past me an officer, trilling and singing; he did not see me. @@ -7316,7 +7278,7 @@ imploringly, merciful to me. Tell me how Madelon is faring." Mademoiselle Scuderi summoned -La Martinière, and in a few minutes Madelon was clinging to +La Martinière, and in a few minutes Madelon was clinging to Olivier's neck. "Now that you are here, all is well. I knew that this noble-hearted lady would save you," Madelon cried over and over; and Olivier forgot his fate, and all that threatened him. He was free and @@ -7407,7 +7369,7 @@ proved, but be guided by his own conviction."</p> <p class="normal">Mademoiselle Scuderi could not but agree with what d'Andilly's great experience dictated. She was sitting in her room, pondering as to what--in the name of the Virgin and all the saints--she should -try next to do, when La Martinière came to say that the Count de Miossens, +try next to do, when La Martinière came to say that the Count de Miossens, Colonel of the King's Body Guard, was most anxious to speak with her.</p> <p class="normal">"Pardon me, Mademoiselle," said the Colonel, bowing with a @@ -7419,7 +7381,7 @@ as to what she was going to hear, "that most unfortunate of men! What have to say of him?"</p> <p class="normal">"I knew," said Miossens, laughing again, "that your -<i>protégé's</i> name would ensure me a favourable hearing. Everybody is convinced of +<i>protégé's</i> name would ensure me a favourable hearing. Everybody is convinced of Brusson's guilt. I know you think otherwise, and, it is said, your opinion rests on what he himself has told you. With me the case is different. Nobody can be more certain than I that Brusson is innocent of Cardillac's death."</p> @@ -7427,7 +7389,7 @@ more certain than I that Brusson is innocent of Cardillac's death."</p> <p class="normal">"Speak! Oh, speak!" cried Mademoiselle Scuderi.</p> <p class="normal">"I was the man who stabbed the old goldsmith, in the Rue St. -Honoré, close to your door," said the Colonel.</p> +Honoré, close to your door," said the Colonel.</p> <p class="normal">"<i>You</i>--<i>you!</i>" cried Mademoiselle Scuderi. "In the name of all the Saints, how?"</p> @@ -7477,7 +7439,7 @@ Mademoiselle Scuderi.</p> Cardillac's accomplice an innocent man? He who assisted him in his crimes, and has deserved death a hundred times? No, in verity; <i>he</i> suffers justly; although I told you the true state of the case in the hope that you might somehow make -use of it in the interests of your <i>protégé</i>, without bringing me into the +use of it in the interests of your <i>protégéÂ</i>, without bringing me into the clutches of the Chambre Ardente."</p> <p class="normal">Mademoiselle Scuderi, delighted at having her conviction of @@ -7510,7 +7472,7 @@ consequence would follow if Count Miossens related to the judges the adventure with Cardillac. Delay is what we must aim at. Let Count Miossens go to the Conciergerie, be confronted with Olivier, and recognise him as the person who carried off Cardillac's body; let him then go to La Regnie, and say, 'I saw a -man stabbed in the Rue St. Honoré, and was close to the body when another man +man stabbed in the Rue St. Honoré, and was close to the body when another man darted up, bent down over it, and finding life still in it, took it on his shoulders and carried it away. I recognise Olivier Brusson as that man.' This will lead to a further examination of Brusson, to his being confronted with @@ -7588,21 +7550,21 @@ silken lashes down to her beautiful lily breast. The King was moved by the wonderful beauty of the girl. He raised her gently, and stooped down as if about to kiss her hand, which he had taken in his; but he let the hand go, and gazed at her with tears in his eyes, evincing deep emotion. Madame de Maintenon -whispered to Mademoiselle Scuderi: "Is she not exactly like La Valliére, the +whispered to Mademoiselle Scuderi: "Is she not exactly like La Valliére, the little thing? The King is sunk in the sweetest souvenirs: you have gained the day." Though she spoke softly, the King seemed to hear. A blush came to his cheek; he scanned Madame de Maintenon with a glance, and then said, gently and kindly: "I am quite sure that you, my dear child, think your lover is innocent; but we must hear what the Chambre Ardente has to say." A gentle wave of his hand dismissed Madelon, bathed in tears. Mademoiselle Scuderi saw, to her alarm, that -the resemblance to La Valliére, advantageous as it had seemed to be at first, +the resemblance to La Valliére, advantageous as it had seemed to be at first, had nevertheless changed the King's intention as soon as Madame de Maintenon had spoken of it. Perhaps he felt himself somewhat ungently reminded that he was going to sacrifice strict justice to beauty; or he may have been like a dreamer who, when loudly addressed by his name, finds that the beautiful magic visions by which he thought he was surrounded vanish away. Perhaps he no longer saw his -La Valliére before him, but thought only of Sœur Louise de la Misericorde--La -Valliére's cloister name among the Carmelite nuns--paining him with her piety +La Valliére before him, but thought only of Sœur Louise de la Misericorde--La +Valliére's cloister name among the Carmelite nuns--paining him with her piety and repentance. There was nothing for it now but to patiently wait for the King's decision.</p> @@ -7616,13 +7578,13 @@ love for Madelon, and the faithfulness and devotion of soul and body with which he had served his master. Crowds of people, in threatening temper, often collected before La Regnie's Palais, crying, "Give us out Olivier Brusson!--he is innocent!" even throwing stones at the windows, so that La Regnie had to seek -the protection of the Marechaussée.</p> +the protection of the Marechaussée.</p> <p class="normal">Many days elapsed without Mademoiselle Scuderi's hearing anything on the subject of Olivier Brusson. In her disconsolateness she went to Madame de Maintenon, who said the King was keeping silence on the subject, and it was not advisable to remind him of it. When she then, with a peculiar smile, -asked after the "little La Valliére," Mademoiselle Scuderi saw that this proud +asked after the "little La Valliére," Mademoiselle Scuderi saw that this proud lady felt, in the depths of her heart, some slight annoyance at a matter which had the power of drawing the mobile King into a province whose charm was beyond her own sphere. Consequently nothing was to be hoped from Madame de Maintenon.</p> @@ -7654,7 +7616,7 @@ Mademoiselle Scuderi, without a single word of poor Olivier Brusson. At length Bontems appeared, approached the King, and spoke a few words so softly that the ladies could not hear them. Mademoiselle Scuderi trembled; but the King rose, went up to her, and said, with beaming eyes, "I congratulate you, Mademoiselle. -Your protégé, Olivier Brusson, is free." Mademoiselle Scuderi, with tears +Your protégé, Olivier Brusson, is free." Mademoiselle Scuderi, with tears streaming down her cheeks, unable to utter a word, would have cast herself at the King's feet; but he prevented her, saying, "Va! Va! Mademoiselle, you ought to be my Attorney-General and plead my causes, for nobody on earth can resist @@ -7670,7 +7632,7 @@ Majesty, "will hand you 1000 Louis, which you will give the little one from as a wedding portion. Let her marry her Brusson, who does not deserve such a treasure, and then they must both leave Paris. This is my will."</p> -<p class="normal">La Martinière came to meet her mistress with eager steps, +<p class="normal">La Martinière came to meet her mistress with eager steps, followed by Baptiste, their faces beaming with joy, and both crying out, "He is here! he is free! Oh, the dear young couple!" The happy pair fell at Mademoiselle Scuderi's feet, and Madelon cried, "Ah! I knew that you, and you @@ -7711,7 +7673,7 @@ historical fact, it yet soared into the region of the imaginative.</p> <p class="normal">Lothair said: "Our Sylvester has got very well out of a somewhat risky undertaking, for that, I consider, was the representing of a -literary old maid who kept a sort of <i>bureau d'esprit</i> in the Rue St. Honoré, +literary old maid who kept a sort of <i>bureau d'esprit</i> in the Rue St. Honoré, which he lets us have a peep into. Our own authoresses (and if they chance to be advanced in years, I hope they may all be genial, kind, and dignified as the old lady in the black dress) would be much delighted with you, my Sylvester, if they @@ -7734,7 +7696,7 @@ up the palaces were in security; but the moment he got out (there being no proof of anything against him) the victims fell just as before. Finally the rack extracted his secret, and he was executed. A strange thing was that he had made no use whatever of the stolen property; it was all found stowed away under the -flooring of his room. He said, in the naïvest manner, that he had made a vow to +flooring of his room. He said, in the naïvest manner, that he had made a vow to St. Rochus, the patron of his craft, that he would get together a certain, pretty considerable, sum by robbery, and then stop; and complained of the hardship of having been apprehended before the said sum was arrived at."</p> @@ -7925,7 +7887,7 @@ the morning he would go and find out the Stranger, and do something to remedy his condition.</p> <p class="normal">And, as fate would have it, the Stranger was the first person -he met, as he was taking a walk down the Alleé.</p> +he met, as he was taking a walk down the Alleé.</p> <p class="normal">The Baron addressed him, apologised for his behaviour on the previous night, and formally asked him to forgive him. The Stranger said there @@ -8210,7 +8172,7 @@ cards which the Chevalier was dealing. At last, when the Chevalier had shuffled, had the cards cut, and was going to begin the deal, the old man cried out, in a screaming voice, 'Stop!' Every one looked round, almost terrified. The old man elbowed his way through the crowd close up to the Chevalier, and whispered into -his ear, 'Chevalier, my house in the Rue St. Honoré, with all its contents, in +his ear, 'Chevalier, my house in the Rue St. Honoré, with all its contents, in furniture, gold, silver, and jewels, is valued at eighty thousand francs. I stake it! Do you accept?'</p> @@ -8269,7 +8231,7 @@ voice, 'At once. This very moment, Chevalier. Come with me.'</p> To-morrow you must leave it for good and all.'</p> <p class="normal">"On the way neither of them spoke. When they came to the house -in the Rue St. Honoré Vertua rang at the door, and a little old woman opened, +in the Rue St. Honoré Vertua rang at the door, and a little old woman opened, and cried, when she saw him, 'Oh, saviour of the world, is it you at last, signor? Angela has been nearly dead with anxiety about you.'</p> @@ -8855,8 +8817,8 @@ repulsive to every ordinarily constituted person's feelings."</p> this personage who was so intimately brought into connection with my life. But, to business!--this man whom I have been describing to you invited me to make a trip with him to a certain watering place, and, although I saw quite clearly -that I was to play the <i>rôle</i> of soother, calmer, tranquilizer, and -<i>maítre-de-plaisírs</i> to him, I was quite satisfied to make this charming +that I was to play the <i>rôle</i> of soother, calmer, tranquilizer, and +<i>maÃtre-de-plaisÃrs</i> to him, I was quite satisfied to make this charming excursion amongst the mountains at his expense. At the watering-place there was some high play going on--a bank of several thousand thalers. My companion eyed the heaps of gold with greedy simpers, paced up and down the room, circled @@ -9052,7 +9014,7 @@ strange smile, and he said:</p> <p class="normal">"'Well, well; perhaps you're right. There's a great deal to be picked up at the Baron's. I'll talk to him about you, and I think it very likely -that he will accord you <i>les entrées</i>. He is very much interested in young +that he will accord you <i>les entrées</i>. He is very much interested in young musicians.'</p> <p class="normal">"A short time afterwards, I had been playing some very @@ -9437,7 +9399,7 @@ forth from my heart, and is nestling in this breast-pocket of mine here; a quite remarkable little creature of a story, which I specially commend to the favour of our Lothair. I should have read it to you to-night. But don't you see the landlord's pale face peeping in at the window every now and then, just in the -style in which the uncle Kuehleborn, in Fouqué's 'Undine,' used to 'keek' in at +style in which the uncle Kuehleborn, in Fouqué's 'Undine,' used to 'keek' in at the window of the fisherman's hut. Haven't you noticed the irritated 'Oh, Jemini!' countenance of the waiter? Was there not written on his forehead, legibly and distinctly (when he snuffed the candles), 'Are you going to sit here @@ -9556,7 +9518,7 @@ carefully observed that talent of mine, and given it its due meed of approval.&q altogether, a rather curious thing. The French say that a certain heaviness in our nature always prevents us from hitting the precise tact and tone necessary for it; and they may be right, to a certain extent, but I must declare that the -much-belauded <i>légèreté</i> and lightsomeness of French Society puts me out of +much-belauded <i>légèreté</i> and lightsomeness of French Society puts me out of temper, and makes me feel stupid and uncomfortable, and that I cannot look upon those <i>bon mots</i> and <i>calembours</i> of theirs, which are continually being fired off in all directions, as coming under the class of that 'Society wit' which @@ -9781,7 +9743,7 @@ have come to occupy their minds; who go on repeating the same things over and over again, for hours, no matter what turn the conversation may have taken. All efforts to carry them along with the stream of the conversation are vain; when one at last flatters oneself that one has got them into the current of the talk, -lo and behold, they return <i>à leurs moutons</i> again, just as before, and +lo and behold, they return <i>à leurs moutons</i> again, just as before, and consequently dam up the beautiful, rushing stream of conversation. In contradistinction to them are those who forget one second what they said in the immediately preceding one; who ask a question, and, without waiting for an @@ -12087,7 +12049,7 @@ who were sitting near him dragged him down into his place.</p> <p class="normal">The stage-Capuzzi went on to say it was time, now, to come to matters of more importance. He wanted to give a large dinner the next day, and Pasquarello must set to work briskly to get together all the requirements. He -drew out of his pocket a list of the most expensive and recherché dishes, and +drew out of his pocket a list of the most expensive and recherché dishes, and read it aloud; as each dish was mentioned, Pasquarello had to say how much it would cost, and the money was handed to him on the spot.</p> @@ -12688,7 +12650,7 @@ events as regards the drama), one cannot complain of the want of due seriousness, every writer of a Comedy took much pains to construct a regular plot, and out of that plot all the comic element, the drollery, nay, the very absurdity, duly evolved itself, of itself; because it seemed the natural thing -for it to do. Jünger (although he but too often seems very 'flat') always did +for it to do. Jünger (although he but too often seems very 'flat') always did this, and even Brenner--utterly prosaic as he was on the whole--was by no means deficient in the power of making the comic element flow out from his plots, and his characters have often real force and vividness of life, derived from @@ -12779,7 +12741,7 @@ rapidly jerk over his face the expression of a bitter irony, so that the exaggerated submissiveness with which he bore himself towards every one--and more particularly towards his manager (a silly young man, full of vanity)--took, in him, the form of an ironical contempt. On Sundays he used -to take his seat at the lower end of the <i>table d'hôte</i> of the best hotel in the +to take his seat at the lower end of the <i>table d'hôte</i> of the best hotel in the place, dressed in a good well-brushed suit of clothes, whose cut and extraordinary pattern indicated the actor of a long by-gone period; and there he enjoyed a hearty meal, never saying a word to a soul, although he was @@ -12787,7 +12749,7 @@ exceptionally temperate, particularly as regarded the wine, for he scarcely half-emptied the bottle which was placed before him. At each filling of his glass he made a courteous bow to the landlord, who gave him his Sunday dinner in return for his teaching his children reading and writing. It happened that I was -dining one Sunday at this <i>table d'hôte</i>, and found only one vacant seat, which +dining one Sunday at this <i>table d'hôte</i>, and found only one vacant seat, which was at this old fellow's side. I hastened to occupy this place, hoping that I might have the good fortune to bring to the surface that better spirit which must be shut up within the man. It was difficult, almost impossible, to get hold @@ -12959,7 +12921,7 @@ waking-dream. Nevertheless, I cry out 'No! Since the days of Shakespeare there never stalked such a Being across the stage as this superhumanly terrible, gruesome old man!' And that you may not remain a moment longer in doubt on the subject, I add at once that no modern poet can congratulate himself on such a -loftily tragic and powerful creation as the author of the Söhne des Thales."</p> +loftily tragic and powerful creation as the author of the Söhne des Thales."</p> <p class="normal">The friends looked at each other in amazement. They made a rapid @@ -13146,7 +13108,7 @@ him for a long time, to the best of my knowledge the first impulse to his writing it came to him from Iffland, who was anxious that he should write a tragedy for the Berlin stage. The 'Soehne des Thales' was then attracting much attention, and perhaps that dramatic writer may have been interested in this -newly-developed talent, or he may have thought he saw that this young <i>débutant</i> +newly-developed talent, or he may have thought he saw that this young <i>débutant</i> was capable of being trained to the performance of the systematic round of theatre tricks, and would acquire a skilled 'stage-hand.' However this may be, think of Iffland with the manuscript of the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee' in his hands. @@ -13267,36 +13229,36 @@ seems as if you were leading us along upon narrow, slippery paths, where terrible and threatening gulfs yawn at us on either side. What you last said reminded me of the horrible mysticism of Pater Molinos, the dreadful doctrine of Quietism. I shuddered when I read the leading theorem of that doctrine. 'Il ne -faut avoir nul égard aux tentations, ni leur opposer aucune résistance. Si la +faut avoir nul égard aux tentations, ni leur opposer aucune résistance. Si la nature se meut, il faut la laisser agir; ce n'est que la nature!'[1] This, of course, would carry----"</p> <br> -<p class="normal">[Footnote 1: "Toute opération active est absolument interdite -par Molinos. C'est même offenser Dieu, que de ne pas tellement s'abandonner à -lui, que l'on soit comme un corps inanimé. De-là vient, suivant cette -hérésiarque, que le vœu de faire quelque bonne œuvre est un obstacle à la -perfection, parce que l'activité naturelle est ennemie de la grâce; c'est un -obstacle aux opérations de Dieu et à la vraie perfection, parce que Dieu veut -agir en nous sans nous. Il ne faut connoître ni lumière, ni amour, ni -résignation. Pour être parfait, il ne faut pas même connoître Dieu; il ne faut -penser, ni au paradis, ni à l'enfer, ni à la mort, ni à l'éternité. On ne doit -point désirer de sçavoir si on marche dans la volonté de Dieu, si on est assez -résigné ou non. En un mot, il ne faut point que l'âme connoisse ni son état ni -son néant; il faut qu'elle soit comme un corps inanimé. Toute réflexion est -nuisible, même celles qu'on fait sur ses propres actions, et sur ses défauts. +<p class="normal">[Footnote 1: "Toute opération active est absolument interdite +par Molinos. C'est même offenser Dieu, que de ne pas tellement s'abandonner à +lui, que l'on soit comme un corps inanimé. De-là vient, suivant cette +hérésiarque, que le vœu de faire quelque bonne œuvre est un obstacle à la +perfection, parce que l'activité naturelle est ennemie de la grâce; c'est un +obstacle aux opérations de Dieu et à la vraie perfection, parce que Dieu veut +agir en nous sans nous. Il ne faut connoître ni lumière, ni amour, ni +résignation. Pour être parfait, il ne faut pas même connoître Dieu; il ne faut +penser, ni au paradis, ni à l'enfer, ni à la mort, ni à l'éternité. On ne doit +point désirer de sçavoir si on marche dans la volonté de Dieu, si on est assez +résigné ou non. En un mot, il ne faut point que l'âme connoisse ni son état ni +son néant; il faut qu'elle soit comme un corps inanimé. Toute réflexion est +nuisible, même celles qu'on fait sur ses propres actions, et sur ses défauts. Ainsi on ne doit point s'embarrasser du scandale que l'on peut causer, pourvu -que l'on n'ait pas intention de scandaliser. Quand une fois on a donné son libre -arbitre à Dieu, on ne doit plus avoir aucun désir de sa propre perfection, ni -des vertus, ni de sa sanctification, ni de son salut; il faut même se défaire de -l'espérance, parce qu'il faut abandonner à Dieu tout le soin de ce que nous -regarde, même celui de faire en nous et sans nous sa divine volonté. Ainsi c'est -une imperfection que de demander; c'est avoir une volonté et vouloir que celle -de Dieu s'y conforme. Par la même raison il ne faut lui rendre grâce d'aucune -chose; c'est le remercier d'avoir fait notre volonté; et nous n'en devons point -avoir." ('Causes célèbres,' par Richer. Tom. ii.: 'Histoire du Procès de la -Cadière.')]</p> +que l'on n'ait pas intention de scandaliser. Quand une fois on a donné son libre +arbitre à Dieu, on ne doit plus avoir aucun désir de sa propre perfection, ni +des vertus, ni de sa sanctification, ni de son salut; il faut même se défaire de +l'espérance, parce qu'il faut abandonner à Dieu tout le soin de ce que nous +regarde, même celui de faire en nous et sans nous sa divine volonté. Ainsi c'est +une imperfection que de demander; c'est avoir une volonté et vouloir que celle +de Dieu s'y conforme. Par la même raison il ne faut lui rendre grâce d'aucune +chose; c'est le remercier d'avoir fait notre volonté; et nous n'en devons point +avoir." ('Causes célèbres,' par Richer. Tom. ii.: 'Histoire du Procès de la +Cadière.')]</p> <br> <p class="normal">"It would carry us a good deal too far," interrupted Lothair, @@ -13376,7 +13338,7 @@ his whole being (which he himself, with delicate irony, tried to bring to light, rather than to conceal) only produced the effect of rendering him, in the most various surroundings and most diverse circumstances, always in the most attractive manner, utterly delightful. Moreover, he was full of a subtle humour -which rendered him the worthy <i>confrère</i> of Hamann, Heppel, and Scheffner. It is +which rendered him the worthy <i>confrère</i> of Hamann, Heppel, and Scheffner. It is impossible that all that blossom of promise can be withered and dead, blighted by the poison breath of a miserable infatuation. No! If that picture could come to life--if the poet were to walk in and sit down actually amongst us here, life @@ -13389,7 +13351,7 @@ And to this, ye Serapion Brethren, let us drink in happy expectation."</p> <p class="normal">The friends, forming a semicircle round the picture, clinked their glasses together. "And then," said Vincenz, "it won't matter whether he is -Private Secretary, Abbé, or Privy Councillor, Cardinal, or the very Pope; or +Private Secretary, Abbé, or Privy Councillor, Cardinal, or the very Pope; or even a Bishop <i>in partibus infidelium</i>, that's to say, of Paphos!"</p> <p class="normal">As was usually the case with Vincenz, he had without intending @@ -13536,7 +13498,7 @@ reassurance of comfort and hope. It was there where, notwithstanding all the lies which were current, the true news of the engagements at the Katzbach, Culm, &c., were first received, where our R. told us of the victory at Leipzig two days after it happened, though God knows how he obtained his knowledge of it. My -way had led me past the Brühl Palace, where the Field Marshal was quartered, and +way had led me past the Brühl Palace, where the Field Marshal was quartered, and I had been struck by the unusual lighting-up of the salons, as well as the stir going on all over the house. I was just mentioning this to my friends, with the remark that the enemy must have something in hand, when R. came hurrying in, @@ -13576,9 +13538,9 @@ him that the murmuring and whimpering proceeded. At that moment I heard the sound of marching coming from the town, and I saw the sheen of arms. The old man cowered down, and began to whimper and lament, in a pitiful voice, holding out a cap to those who were coming over the bridge, as if asking for alms. An officer, -laughing, cried, "<i>Voilà -St. Pierre, qui veut pêcher!</i>" The one who came next stopped, -and said very gravely, "<i>Eh bien! Moi, pêcheur, je lui aiderai à pêcher.</i>" +laughing, cried, "<i>Voilà +St. Pierre, qui veut pêcher!</i>" The one who came next stopped, +and said very gravely, "<i>Eh bien! Moi, pêcheur, je lui aiderai à pêcher.</i>" Several officers and soldiers, quitting the ranks, threw the old man money, sometimes silently, sometimes with gentle sighs, like men in expectation of death; and he, then, always nodded from side to side with his head in a curious @@ -13590,7 +13552,7 @@ aide-de-camp, as he thrust his hat more firmly down on to his head, he asked him, in a loud excited voice, "<i>Qui est cet homme?</i>" "The escort which was in attendance on him stood motionless; but an old, bearded sapper, who was passing with his axe on his shoulder, said, calmly and gravely, "<i>C'est un -pauvre maniaque bien connû ici. On l'appelle St. Pierre Pêcheur.</i>" On that the +pauvre maniaque bien connû ici. On l'appelle St. Pierre Pêcheur.</i>" On that the force passed on across the bridge, not as at other times, full of foolish jesting, but in dispirited ill-temper and gloom. As the last sound of them died away, and the last gleam of their arms disappeared, the old man slowly reared @@ -14030,7 +13992,7 @@ similar ratio. She would set down her foot within a hair's-breadth of the eggs with the most complete certainty and confidence, so that the spectators could not help crying out, thinking that one of those fragile things must infallibly be broken. Her black hair had fallen down, and it flew about her head, giving -her much the effect of a Mænad. The little fellow cried out to her in Spanish, +her much the effect of a Mænad. The little fellow cried out to her in Spanish, "Stop!" And on this, while still going on with her dance, she lightly touched each of the eggs, so that they rolled together into a heap; upon which, with a loud beat on her tambourine and a forcible chord on the guitar, she came to a @@ -14137,7 +14099,7 @@ filled her eyes; she flew to the table, seized the guitar, sprang, rather than walked back to the two friends, placed herself before Euchar, and began</p> <div class="poem"> <p class="i4">"Laurel immortal al gran Palafox,</p> -<p class="i4">Gloria da España, de Francia terror!"</p> +<p class="i4">Gloria da España, de Francia terror!"</p> </div> <p class="normal">The expression which she put into this song was indescribable. From the deepest pain of death there flamed forth the most @@ -14296,7 +14258,7 @@ watched without his being aware of it, he would be talking loudly and eagerly, as if with several people about him, and he would "act" whole stories--which he had heard or read--as if they were dramas, so that tables, cupboards, chairs, whatever happened to be in the room with him, had to represent towns, forests, -villages, and dramatis personæ. But when he had an opportunity of being alone in +villages, and dramatis personæ. But when he had an opportunity of being alone in the open air, a special ecstasy seemed to inspire him. Then he would jump, dance, and shout through the woods, putting his arms about the trees, throwing himself down into the grass--and so forth. In any sort of game played by boys of @@ -14626,7 +14588,7 @@ Baron's name. The truth was, according to what he had been able to observe, that this cousin was of a temperament exceedingly disposed to the tender passion, and would only be too delighted if the Baron would carry further what he had begun, namely, at once set to work to pay assiduous attentions to her, and in due -course put on <i>glacé</i> gloves, and lead her to the altar: but that he, for his +course put on <i>glacé</i> gloves, and lead her to the altar: but that he, for his part, would do everything he could to prevent such a course of events. The first thing in the morning, as he would be having the honour to <i>friser</i> his Countly Highness, he would take an opportunity of laying the whole matter before him, @@ -14645,21 +14607,21 @@ put everything straight again.</p> <p class="normal">Ludwig saw that it was nothing but unworthy doubt which had had the power of disturbing his love-happiness: and he resolved to make himself -so marvellously charming at the "thé" of Madame Bech, the Consistorial +so marvellously charming at the "thé" of Madame Bech, the Consistorial President's lady, that Victorine should never so much as dream of being at all "grumpy."</p> <br> -<p class="hang1"><span class="sc">The Æstetic Tea. Choking Cough of a Tragic Poet. The Story +<p class="hang1"><span class="sc">The Æstetic Tea. Choking Cough of a Tragic Poet. The Story Takes a Serious Turn, and Tells of Bloody Battle, Suicide, and Similar Matters.</span></p> <p class="normal">The courteous reader must be good enough to accompany Ludwig and -Euchar to this æsthetic tea, which is now going forward at +Euchar to this æsthetic tea, which is now going forward at Madame Bech's, the Consistorial President's lady. About a dozen of the fair sex, appropriately attired, are seated in a semi-circle. One is thoughtlessly laughing; another is immersed in a contemplation of the tips of her shoes, with -which she is managing to practise the "pas" of a "Française," silently and +which she is managing to practise the "pas" of a "Française," silently and unobserved; a third appears to be sweetly sleeping (and dreaming more sweetly still); a fourth darts the fiery beams from her eyes athwart the room in all directions, with the intention that they shall impinge upon not one but all the @@ -14752,7 +14714,7 @@ how to arouse himself from out his sickly mood, and under an impulse to deeds of valour, fight out the contest which was eating up his heart. He could not resist an eager desire to make the acquaintance of the man who had thus inspired him with new life. The door gave way at the pressure of his hand, but the moment he -entered the room, the old man sprung from his bed with a cry of "Träidor" +entered the room, the old man sprung from his bed with a cry of "Träidor" (traitor), and made straight at Edgar with a drawn dagger. Edgar succeeded in evading the well-aimed thrust by a skilful movement, and in grasping the old man, and holding him down on his bed.</p> @@ -15010,7 +14972,7 @@ the presence of Empecinado. The latter pierced him through and through with his glance of fire, and at length spoke to him, in a tone of the most appalling calmness. "Antonio," he said, "you are in league with the enemy. You have several times had interviews with Souchet, at unusual hours. You endeavoured to -hand over, by treachery, our Place d'Armes at Cuença."--"It is so," answered +hand over, by treachery, our Place d'Armes at Cuença."--"It is so," answered Antonio, with a terrible sigh, not raising his bowed-down head. "Is it possible," cried Empecinado, breaking out into the wildest anger, "is it possible that you are a Spaniard--that the blood of your ancestors runs in your @@ -15098,7 +15060,7 @@ drew him into the wild amusements of his light-hearted comrades.</p> <p class="normal">Edgar noticed, clearly enough, that many strange forms dogged him about, watching him with suspicious looks; and it went deeply to his heart when, one day on entering a Posada with the Colonel, he heard distinctly behind -him a whisper of "Acqui esta el traïdor!" ("That is the traitor.")</p> +him a whisper of "Acqui esta el traïdor!" ("That is the traitor.")</p> <p class="normal">Don Rafaele grew daily more cold and monosyllabic towards Edgar, and at last he saw him no more, and was given to understand by him that, @@ -15437,7 +15399,7 @@ delighted him immensely.</p> singing he thought nothing at all; there was no such thing as a trillo in it all. But he praised her dancing most warmly, and thought it quite delicious. He said that his opinion on the subject was of some value, seeing that at one time -he had been as good a performer as the most celebrated Maîtres de ballet.</p> +he had been as good a performer as the most celebrated Maîtres de ballet.</p> <p class="normal">"Will you believe me, brother Consistorial-President," he said, "when I tell you that in my youthful days, when I was a perfect model @@ -15485,12 +15447,12 @@ passionate adoration for her--and clasp her to my heart."</p> of course, the proper thing for you to do."</p> <p class="normal">On the next evening when the company were assembled again -<i>chez Madame la Présidente</i>, she told them with much regret that Baron Euchar +<i>chez Madame la Présidente</i>, she told them with much regret that Baron Euchar had written to say that he was unexpectedly obliged to start immediately on a journey, and must postpone the continuation of his story till he came back.</p> <br> -<p class="center"><span class="sc">Euchar's Return. Scenes in a truly happy Ménage.<br>Conclusion +<p class="center"><span class="sc">Euchar's Return. Scenes in a truly happy Ménage.<br>Conclusion of the Story</span>.</p> <p class="normal">Two years had past away when one morning a handsome carriage @@ -15575,7 +15537,7 @@ should succeed in that. I had almost forgotten all about her when chance----&quo Euchar.</p> <p class="normal">"Well, well," went on Ludwig. "But, at all events, a few days -afterwards I was going through the Park, and in front of that Café where you and +afterwards I was going through the Park, and in front of that Café where you and I saw that little Spanish girl for the first time, out came the landlady rushing--oh, you have no idea what an interest that good woman, who got the vinegar and water that day when I hurt my knee, takes in me still--but that is @@ -16155,7 +16117,7 @@ attribute to her embarrassment at being where she was--her having neglected to explain that her companion was her daughter Aurelia. On this the Count found words, and blushing up to the eyes implored the Baroness, with the agitation of a young man overpowered by love, to let him atone in some degree for his -lather's shortcomings--the result of misunderstandings--and to favour him by +father's shortcomings--the result of misunderstandings--and to favour him by paying him a long visit. In warmly enforcing this request he took her hand. But the words and the breath died away on his lips and his blood ran cold. For he felt his hand grasped as if in a vice by fingers cold and stiff as death, and @@ -16344,7 +16306,7 @@ immediate flight.</p> <p class="normal">She had managed to possess herself of the key of the hall door, had got together the few little necessaries which she absolutely required, and, just after midnight, was moving softly through the dimly-lighted front -hall, at a time when she thought her mother was sure to be last asleep. She was +hall, at a time when she thought her mother was sure to be fast asleep. She was on the point of stepping quietly out into the street, when the door opened with a clang, and heavy footsteps came noisily up the steps. The Baroness came staggering and stumbling into the hall, right up to Aurelia's feet, nothing upon @@ -16462,7 +16424,7 @@ dead, cast a deep shadow over his life, sun-bright as it otherwise seemed to be. <p class="normal">In a very short time Aurelia began to alter very perceptibly. Whilst the deathly paleness of her face, and the fatigued appearance of -her eyes, seemed to point to sortie bodily ailment, her mental +her eyes, seemed to point to some bodily ailment, her mental state--confused, variable, restless, as if she were constantly frightened at something--led to the conclusion that there was some fresh mystery perturbing her system. She shunned her husband. She shut herself up in her @@ -16615,7 +16577,7 @@ that his story has merely caused us a passing feeling of the eery and shuddery--for which we are duly grateful to him. I remember very well having read this story in an old book, where everything was told with the most prolix enumeration of all the details; and the old woman's atrocities in -particular were set forth in all their minutiæ, truly <i>con amore</i>, so that the +particular were set forth in all their minutiæ, truly <i>con amore</i>, so that the whole affair produced, and left behind it, a most repulsive impression, which it took a long while to get over. I was delighted when I had forgotten the horrible thing, and Cyprian ought not to have recalled it to my memory; although I must @@ -16770,7 +16732,7 @@ though determined to peck everything bare, were forced to leave half the fruit for a future feast. Every creature filled itself full every day at the great guest-table of nature. Above all, however, the vegetables in Herr Dapsul von Zabelthau's kitchen-garden had turned out such a splendid and beautiful crop -that it was no wonder Fräulein Aennchen was unable to contain herself with joy +that it was no wonder Fräulein Aennchen was unable to contain herself with joy on the subject.</p> <p class="normal">We may here explain who Herr Dapsul von Zabelthau and Aennchen @@ -16805,7 +16767,7 @@ into which you now enter. You are looking forward to something in the shape of breakfast, but in the little inn things have rather a gloomy aspect. Its small store of provisions was cleared out at the fair, and as you can't be expected to be content with nothing besides milk, they tell you to go to the Manor House, -where the gracious Fräulein Anna will entertain you hospitably with whatever may +where the gracious Fräulein Anna will entertain you hospitably with whatever may be forthcoming there. Accordingly, thither you betake yourself without further ceremony.</p> @@ -16825,16 +16787,16 @@ roundly substantial. A personification of friendly kindness, she begs you to go in, and as soon as she ascertains your wants, serves you up the most delicious milk, a liberal allowance of first-rate bread and butter, uncooked ham--as good as you would find in Bayonne--and a small glass of beetroot brandy. Meanwhile, -this young lady (who is none other than Fräulein Anna von Zabelthau) talks to +this young lady (who is none other than Fräulein Anna von Zabelthau) talks to you gaily and pleasantly of rural matters, displaying anything but a limited knowledge of such subjects. Suddenly, however, there resounds a loud and terrible voice, as if from the skies, crying "Anna, Anna, Anna!" This rather -startles you; but Fräulein Anna says, pleasantly, "There's papa back from his +startles you; but Fräulein Anna says, pleasantly, "There's papa back from his walk, calling for his breakfast from his study." "Calling from his study," you -repeat, or enquire, astonished. "Yes," says Fräulein Anna, or Fräulein Aennchen, +repeat, or enquire, astonished. "Yes," says Fräulein Anna, or Fräulein Aennchen, as the people call her. "Yes; papa's study is up in the tower there, and he calls down through the speaking trumpet." And you see Aennchen open the narrow -door of the old lower, with a similar <i>déjeuner à la fourchette</i> to that which +door of the old lower, with a similar <i>déjeuner à la fourchette</i> to that which you have had yourself, namely, a liberal helping of bread and ham, not forgetting the beetroot brandy, and go briskly in at it. But she is back directly, and taking you all over the charming @@ -16890,11 +16852,11 @@ known to do. But more than anything--more than even to the fruit trees--she was devoted to the kitchen-garden. From her grand-aunt's attainments in this line she had derived very remarkable theoretical knowledge of vegetable culture (which the reader has seen for himself), as regarded digging of the ground, -sowing the seed, and setting the plants. Fräulein Aennchen not only +sowing the seed, and setting the plants. Fräulein Aennchen not only superintended all these operations, but lent most valuable manual aid. She wielded a most vigorous spade--her bitterest enemy would have admitted this. So that while Herr Dapsul von Zabelthau was immersed in astrological observations -and other important matters, Fräulein Aennchen carried on the management of the +and other important matters, Fräulein Aennchen carried on the management of the place in the ablest possible manner, Dapsul looking after the celestial part of the business, and Aennchen managing the terrestrial side of things with unceasing vigilance and care.</p> @@ -16913,7 +16875,7 @@ were taking part in Aennchen's gladness, for some extremely delicate laughter, which just made itself heard, was undoubtedly proceeding from the carrot-bed. Aennchen didn't, however, pay much heed to it, but ran to meet one of the farm-men who was coming, holding up a letter, and calling out to her, "For you, -Fräulein Aennchen. Gottlieb brought it from the town."</p> +Fräulein Aennchen. Gottlieb brought it from the town."</p> <p class="normal">Aennchen saw immediately, from the hand writing, that it was from none other than young Herr Amandus von Nebelstern, the son of a @@ -16978,7 +16940,7 @@ of life's highest. Think, oh, think I sweet maiden of</p> <p class="normal">"P.S.--Don't forget, oh, sublime virgin! when answering this, to send a pound or two of that Virginia tobacco which you grow yourself. It burns splendidly, and has a far better flavour than the Porto Rico which the -Bürschen smoke when they go to the Kneipe."</p> +Bürschen smoke when they go to the Kneipe."</p> </div> <br> <p class="normal">[Footnote 1: The translator may point out that the original of @@ -16986,14 +16948,14 @@ this nonsense is, itself, intentionally nonsense, and that he has done his best to render it into English--not an easy task.--A. E.]</p> <br> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen pressed the letter to her lips, and said, +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen pressed the letter to her lips, and said, "Oh, how dear, how beautiful! And the darling verses, rhyming so beautifully. Oh, if I were only clever enough to understand it all; but I suppose nobody can do that but a student. I wonder what that about the 'roots' means? I suppose it must be the long red English carrots, or, who knows, it may be the rapuntica. Dear fellow!"</p> -<p class="normal">That very day Fräulein Aennchen made it her business to pack +<p class="normal">That very day Fräulein Aennchen made it her business to pack up the tobacco, and she took a dozen of her finest goose-quills to the schoolmaster, to get him to make them into pens. Her intention was to sit down at once and begin her answer to the precious letter. As she was going out of the @@ -17114,7 +17076,7 @@ beans; but my little dachshund, Feldmann, gave the big gander a terrible bite in the leg yesterday. However, we can't have everything perfect in this world. A hundred kisses in imagination, my dearest Amandus, from</p> -<p class="right" style="margin-right:15%">"Your most faithful fiancée,</p> +<p class="right" style="margin-right:15%">"Your most faithful fiancée,</p> <p class="right">"<span class="sc">Anna von Zabelthau</span>.</p> <p class="normal">"P.S.--I've been writing in an awful hurry, and that's the @@ -17136,7 +17098,7 @@ more,</p> <p class="right">"<span class="sc">Anna von Zabelthau</span>."</p> </div> -<p class="normal">It was a good weight off Fräulein Aennchen's mind when she had +<p class="normal">It was a good weight off Fräulein Aennchen's mind when she had written this letter; it had cost her a considerable effort. So she felt light-hearted and happy when she had put it in its envelope, sealed it up without burning the paper or her own fingers, and given @@ -17145,13 +17107,13 @@ post-office in the town. When she had seen properly to the poultry in the yard, she ran as fast as she could to the place she loved best--the kitchen-garden. When she got to the carrot-bed she thought it was about time to be thinking of the sweet-toothed people in the town, and be palling the earliest of the -carrots. The servant-girl was called in to help in this process. Fräulein +carrots. The servant-girl was called in to help in this process. Fräulein Aennchen walked, gravely and seriously, into the middle of the bed, and grasped a stately carrot-plant. But on her pulling at it a strange sound made itself heard. Do not, reader, think of the witches' mandrake-root, and the horrible whining and howling which pierces the heart of man when it is drawn from the earth. No; the tone which was heard on this occasion was like very delicate, -joyous laughter. But Fräulein Aennchen let the carrot-plant go, and cried out, +joyous laughter. But Fräulein Aennchen let the carrot-plant go, and cried out, rather frightened, "Eh! Who's that laughing at me?" But there being nothing more to be heard she took hold of the carrot-plant again--which seemed to be finer and better grown than any of the rest--and, notwithstanding the laughing, which began again, @@ -17164,7 +17126,7 @@ firmly attached to the carrot, with a shining topaz mounted in it.</p> <p class="normal">"Oh," cried the maid, "that's for you! It's your wedding-ring. Put it on directly."</p> -<p class="normal">"Stupid nonsense!" said Fräulein Aennchen. "I must get my +<p class="normal">"Stupid nonsense!" said Fräulein Aennchen. "I must get my wedding-ring from Herr Amandus von Nebelstern, not from a carrot."</p> @@ -17183,7 +17145,7 @@ Dresden collection.</p> have been underground? And it must have got shoved up somehow, and then the carrot has grown right through it."</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen took the ring off the carrot, and it was +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen took the ring off the carrot, and it was strange how the latter suddenly slipped through her fingers and disappeared in the ground. But neither she nor the maid paid much heed to this circumstance, being lost in admiration of the beautiful ring, which the young lady immediately @@ -17213,7 +17175,7 @@ all going out of their wits."</p> <p class="normal">Heir Dapsul hailed down to her through the speaking trumpet, saying, "Anna, my daughter Anna, come up here to me immediately."</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was much astonished at this command, for her +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was much astonished at this command, for her papa had never in all his life asked her to go into the tower, but rather had kept the door of it carefully shut. So that she was conscious of a certain sense of anxiety as she climbed the narrow winding stair, and opened the heavy door @@ -17244,7 +17206,7 @@ proceeding to press it down upon the paper; but ere he could do so he slipped his foot on the smooth stone floor, and fell, anything but softly, upon the sitting portion of his body; whilst the metal plate, which he had dropped in an instinctive attempt to break his fall, and save damage to his <i>Os Coccygis</i>, -went clattering down upon the stones. Fräulein Aennchen awoke, with a gentle +went clattering down upon the stones. Fräulein Aennchen awoke, with a gentle "Ah!" from a strange dreamy condition in which she had been. Herr Dapsul with some difficulty raised himself, put the grey sugar-loaf cap, which had fallen off, on again, arranged the false beard, and sate himself down opposite to @@ -17387,7 +17349,7 @@ mystic file shall befree you from the pernicious ring."</p> <p class="normal">With this, Herr Dapsul von Zabelthau took up a small file and began filing away with it at the ring. But scarcely had he passed it once or -twice backwards and forwards when Fräulein Aennchen cried aloud in pain, "Papa, +twice backwards and forwards when Fräulein Aennchen cried aloud in pain, "Papa, papa, you're filing my finger off!" And actually there was dark thick blood coming oozing from under the ring. Seeing this, Herr Dapsul let the file fall upon the floor, sank half fainting into the armchair, and cried, in utter @@ -17502,9 +17464,9 @@ shortness of stature would have led one to expect, "Oh, my Dapsul von Zabel my most beloved father!" He then lowered himself down from Herr Dapsul's neck with the same deftness of skill with which he had climbed up to it, sprang, or rather slung himself, to -Fräulein Aennchen, took that hand of hers which had the ring on it, covered +Fräulein Aennchen, took that hand of hers which had the ring on it, covered it with loud resounding kisses, and cried out in the same -almost thundering voice as before, "Oh, my loveliest Fräulein Anna von +almost thundering voice as before, "Oh, my loveliest Fräulein Anna von Zabelthau, my most beloved bride-elect!"</p> <p class="normal">He then clapped his hands, and immediately that noisy @@ -17516,7 +17478,7 @@ the avant-courier had done, sometimes on their heads, sometimes on their feet, in the prettiest possible trochees, spondees, iambics, pyrrhics, anapaests, tribrachs, bacchi, antibacchi, choriambs, and dactyls, so that it was -a joy to behold them. But as this was going on, Fräulein Aennchen recovered from +a joy to behold them. But as this was going on, Fräulein Aennchen recovered from the terrible fright which the little Baron's speech to her had put her in, and entered into several important and necessary economic questions and considerations. "How is it possible," she asked herself, "that these little @@ -17542,7 +17504,7 @@ of such a thing as its lasting more than a couple of hours or so, as there was neither room nor anything else for the proper reception and entertainment of such a grand gentleman and such a numerous retinue. But little Cordovanspitz immediately looked as marvellously sweet and tender as any marsipan tart, -pressing with closed eyes Fräulein Aennchen's hand (which was rather rough, and +pressing with closed eyes Fräulein Aennchen's hand (which was rather rough, and not particularly white) to his lips, as he assured her that the last thing he should think of was causing the dear papa and his lovely daughter the slightest inconvenience. He said he had brought everything in the kitchen and cellar @@ -17551,7 +17513,7 @@ of ground with the open air above it, where his people could put up his ordinary travelling palace, which would accommodate him, his whole retinue, and the animals pertaining to them.</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was so delighted with these words of the +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was so delighted with these words of the Baron Porphyrio von Ockerodastes that, to show that she wasn't grudging a little bit of hospitality, she was going to offer him the little fritter cakes she had made for the last consecration day, and a small glass of the beetroot brandy, @@ -17568,7 +17530,7 @@ conversation with Herr Dapsul von Zabelthau, which seemed to go on increasing in importance till they went away together hand in hand, and up into the astronomical tower.</p> -<p class="normal">Full of alarm and anxiety, Fräulein Aennchen now made haste to +<p class="normal">Full of alarm and anxiety, Fräulein Aennchen now made haste to her kitchen garden, with the view of trying to save whatever it might still be possible to save. The maid-servant was there already, standing staring before her with open mouth, motionless as a person turned like Lot's wife into a pillar @@ -17589,7 +17551,7 @@ whilst Anna wept aloud.</p> <p class="normal">But at this point, four members of Cordovanspitz's suite came up with such very pleasant ingratiating speeches and such courteous reverences, being such wonderful creatures to behold, at the same time that the maid, -instead of attacking them with the spade, let it slowly sink, and Fräulein +instead of attacking them with the spade, let it slowly sink, and Fräulein Aennchen ceased weeping.</p> <p class="normal">They announced themselves as being the four friends who were @@ -17601,7 +17563,7 @@ Monsieur de Rocambolle, from France. They said, moreover, that the builders would come directly, and afford the beautiful lady the gratification of seeing them erect a lovely palace, all of silk, in the shortest possible space of time.</p> -<p class="normal">"What good will the silken palace be to me?" cried Fräulein +<p class="normal">"What good will the silken palace be to me?" cried Fräulein Aennchen, weeping aloud in her bitter sorrow. "And what do I care about your Baron Cordovanspitz, now that you have gone and destroyed my beautiful vegetables, wretched creatures that you are. All my happy days are over."</p> @@ -17613,7 +17575,7 @@ luxuriance as she had never seen, or anybody else in the world for that matter.< <p class="normal">The little building-people arrived, and then there began such a confused-looking, higgledy-piggledy, and helter-skeltering on the plot of -ground that Fräulein Anna and the maid ran away quite frightened, and took +ground that Fräulein Anna and the maid ran away quite frightened, and took shelter behind some thickets, whence they could see what would be the end of it all.</p> @@ -17631,7 +17593,7 @@ seat in the coach and eight, and in the same order in which they had made their entry into Dapsulheim, he and his following went into the silken palace, which, when the last of the procession was within it, instantly closed itself up.</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen had never seen her papa as he was then. The +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen had never seen her papa as he was then. The very faintest trace of the melancholy which had hitherto always so distressed him had completely disappeared from his countenance. One would really almost have said he smiled. There was a sublimity about his facial expression such as @@ -17667,7 +17629,7 @@ in the case of Magdalena de la Croix). He was fortunate enough at that time to get a small gold ring from you, and now you wear his, so that your betrothal is indissoluble."</p> -<p class="normal">"What?" cried Fräulein Aennchen, in fear and amazement. "What? +<p class="normal">"What?" cried Fräulein Aennchen, in fear and amazement. "What? I betrothed to <i>him</i>--I to marry that horrible little kobold? Haven't I been engaged for ever so long to Herr Amandus von Nebelstern? No, never will I have that hideous monster of a wizard for a husband. I don't care whether he comes @@ -17755,7 +17717,7 @@ of things, isn't it? But all my hope is in <i>you</i>. For I know you are the pe who ought to be, and has got to be, just where and what you are, and has to deliver me from a great danger. The danger has come, so be quick, and rescue</p> -<p class="right" style="margin-right:5%">"Your grieved to death, but most true and loving <i>fiancée</i>,</p> +<p class="right" style="margin-right:5%">"Your grieved to death, but most true and loving <i>fiancée</i>,</p> <p class="right">"<span class="sc">Anna von Zabelthau</span>.</p> <p class="normal">"P.S.--Couldn't you call this yellow little Cordovanspitz out? @@ -17765,7 +17727,7 @@ I'm sure you could settle his hash. He's feeble on his legs.</p> you can and hasten to</p> <p class="right" style="margin-right:15%">"Your most unfortunate and miserable,</p> -<p class="right" style="margin-right:5%">"But always most faithful <i>fiancée</i>.</p> +<p class="right" style="margin-right:5%">"But always most faithful <i>fiancée</i>.</p> <p class="right">"<span class="sc">Anna von Zabelthau</span>."</p> </div> <br> @@ -17775,7 +17737,7 @@ you can and hasten to</p> AFTERWARDS A BLOODY DUEL AND OTHER REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES ARE TREATED OF</span>.</p> -<p class="continue">Fräulein Aennchen was so miserable and distressed that she +<p class="continue">Fräulein Aennchen was so miserable and distressed that she felt paralyzed in all her members. She was sitting at the window with folded arms gazing straight before her, heedless of the cackling, crowing, and queaking of the fowls, which couldn't understand why on earth she didn't come and drive @@ -17794,7 +17756,7 @@ had laid herself open to censure on the score of lack of due seriousness.</p> <p class="normal">All that day Cordovanspitz had not shown himself, but had been shut up in the tower with Herr Dapsul, no doubt assisting in the carrying on of -important operations. But now Fräulein Aennchen caught sight of the little +important operations. But now Fräulein Aennchen caught sight of the little creature coming tottering across the courtyard in the glowing light of the setting sun. And it struck her that he looked more hideous in that yellow habit of his than he had ever done before. The ridiculous manner in which he went @@ -17804,7 +17766,7 @@ only caused her the bitterer distress. Indeed, she at last held her hands in front of her eyes, that she mightn't so much as see the little horrid creature at all. Suddenly she felt something tugging at her dress, and cried "Down, Feldmann!" thinking it was the Dachshund. But it was not the dog; and what -Fräulein Aennchen saw when she took her hands from her eyes was the Herr Baron +Fräulein Aennchen saw when she took her hands from her eyes was the Herr Baron Porphyrio von Ockerodastes, who hoisted himself into her lap with extraordinary deftness, and clasped both his arms about her. She screamed aloud with fear and disgust, and started up from her chair. But Cordovanspitz kept clinging on to @@ -17826,7 +17788,7 @@ You must see with your own eyes, my betrothed, the splendours which attend you. You must come with me at once. I will lead you to my palace, where a joyful people await the arrival of her who is beloved by their lord."</p> -<p class="normal">It may be imagined how terrified Fräulein Aennchen was at this +<p class="normal">It may be imagined how terrified Fräulein Aennchen was at this proposition of Cordovanspitz's, and how hard she tried to avoid going so much as a single step with the little monster. But he continued to describe the extraordinary beauty and the marvellous richness of the vegetable garden which @@ -17836,7 +17798,7 @@ much harm. The little creature, in his joy and delight, turned at least twelve Catherine wheels in succession, and then took her hand with much courtesy, and led her through the garden to the silken palace.</p> -<p class="normal">With a loud "Ah!" Fräulein Aennchen stood riveted to the +<p class="normal">With a loud "Ah!" Fräulein Aennchen stood riveted to the ground with delight when the curtains of the entrance drew apart, displaying a vegetable garden stretching away further than the eye could reach, of such marvellous beauty and luxuriance as was never seen in the loveliest dreams. Here @@ -17848,7 +17810,7 @@ Herr von Schwartzrettig, Monsieur de Rocambolle, Signor di Broccoli and Pan Kapustowicz, approached with many ceremonious reverences.</p> <p class="normal">"My chamberlains," said Porphyrio von Ockerodastes, smiling; -and, preceded by them, he conducted Fräulein Aennchen through between the double +and, preceded by them, he conducted Fräulein Aennchen through between the double ranks of the bodyguard of Red English Carrots to the centre of the plain, where stood a splendid throne. And around this throne were assembled the grandees of the realm; the Lettuce Princes with the Bean Princesses, the Dukes of Cucumber @@ -17856,11 +17818,11 @@ with the Prince of Melon at their head, the Cabbage Minister, the General Officer of Onions and Carrots, the Colewort ladies, etc., etc., all in the gala dresses of their rank and station. And amidst them moved up and down well on to a hundred of the prettiest and most delightful Lavender and Fennel pages, -diffusing sweet perfume. When Ockerodastes had ascended the throne with Fräulein +diffusing sweet perfume. When Ockerodastes had ascended the throne with Fräulein Aennchen, Chief Court-Marshal Turnip waved his long wand of office, and immediately the band stopped playing, and the multitude listened in reverential silence as Ockerodastes raised his voice and said, in solemn accents, "My -faithful and beloved subjects, you see by my side the noble Fräulein Anna von +faithful and beloved subjects, you see by my side the noble Fräulein Anna von Zabelthau, whom I have chosen to be my consort. Rich in beauty and virtues, she has long watched over you with the eye of maternal affection, preparing soft and succulent beds for you, caring for you and tending you with ceaseless ardour. @@ -17876,7 +17838,7 @@ band of the Carrot Guard played the celebrated National Anthem--</p> <p class="center" style="font-size:90%">"Salad and lettuce, and parsley so green."</p> <p class="normal">It was a grand, a sublime moment, which drew tears from the -eyes of the grandees, particularly from those of the Colewort ladies. Fräulein +eyes of the grandees, particularly from those of the Colewort ladies. Fräulein Aennchen, too, nearly lost all her self-control when she noticed that little Ockerodastes had a crown on his head all sparkling with diamonds, and a golden sceptre in his hand.</p> @@ -17893,7 +17855,7 @@ King of the Vegetables. All the vegetable princes are my vassals, save that the King of the Beans reigns for one single day in every year, in conformity to an ancient usage."</p> -<p class="normal">"Then I am to be a queen, am I?" cried Fräulein Aennchen, +<p class="normal">"Then I am to be a queen, am I?" cried Fräulein Aennchen, overjoyed. "And all this great splendid vegetable garden is to be mine?"</p> <p class="normal">King Daucus assured her that of course it was to be so, and @@ -17906,7 +17868,7 @@ the bargain his delightful manners, and the property this marriage would bring her, she felt certain that there wasn't a country lady in all the world who could have made a better match than she, who found herself betrothed to a king before she knew where she was. So she was delighted beyond measure, and asked -her royal <i>fiancé</i> whether she could not take up her abode in the palace then +her royal <i>fiancé</i> whether she could not take up her abode in the palace then and there, and be married next day. But King Daucus answered that eagerly as he longed for the time when he might call her his own, certain constellations compelled him to postpone that happiness a little longer. And that Herr Dapsul @@ -17914,7 +17876,7 @@ von Zabelthau, moreover, must be kept in ignorance of his son-in-law's royal station, because otherwise the operations necessary for bringing about the desired union with the sylphide Nehabilah might be unsuccessful. Besides, he said, he had promised that both the weddings should take place on the same day. -So Fräulein Aennchen had to take a solemn vow not to mention one syllable to +So Fräulein Aennchen had to take a solemn vow not to mention one syllable to Herr Dapsul of what had been happening to her. She therefore left the silken palace amid long and loud rejoicings of the people, who were in raptures with her beauty as well as with her affability and gracious condescension of manners @@ -17924,7 +17886,7 @@ and behaviour.</p> King Daucus, and was lapped in Elysium.</p> <p class="normal">The letter which she had sent to Herr Amandus von Nebelstern -made a frightful impression on him. Ere long, Fräulein Aennchen received the +made a frightful impression on him. Ere long, Fräulein Aennchen received the following answer--</p> <div class="quote"> <p class="continue">'<span class="sc">Idol of my Heart, Heavenly Anna</span>,--</p> @@ -17978,7 +17940,7 @@ the weapon of a presumptuous adversary were glorious poet's blood--ichor of the gods--which never ought to be shed. The world very properly claims that such a spirit as mine has it imposed upon it as public duty to take care of itself for the world's benefit, and preserve itself by every possible means. The sword of -the poet is the word--the song. I will attack my rival with Tyrtæan +the poet is the word--the song. I will attack my rival with Tyrtæan battle-songs; strike him to earth with sharp-pointed epigrams; hew him down with dithyrambics full of lover's fury. Such are the weapons of a true, genuine poet, powerful to shield him from every danger. And it is so accoutred that I shall @@ -17989,7 +17951,7 @@ from my love, and, especially, from my heroic courage, which will shun no danger to set you free from the shameful nets of captivity in which, to all appearance, you are entangled by a demoniacal monster."</p> </div> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen received this letter at a time when she was +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen received this letter at a time when she was playing a game at "Catch-me-if-you-can" with her royal bridegroom elect, King Daucus Carota the First, in the meadow at the back of the garden, and immensely enjoying it when, as was often the case, she suddenly ducked down in full @@ -17997,7 +17959,7 @@ career, and the little king would go shooting right away over her head. Instead of reading the letter immediately (which she had always done before), she put it in her pocket unopened, and we shall presently see that it came too late.</p> -<p class="normal">Herr Dapsul could not make out at all how Fräulein Aennchen +<p class="normal">Herr Dapsul could not make out at all how Fräulein Aennchen had changed her mind so suddenly, and grown quite fond of Herr Porphyrio von Ockerodastes, whom she had so cordially detested before. He consulted the stars on the subject, but as they gave him no satisfactory information, he was obliged @@ -18014,7 +17976,7 @@ still, a man who can't call himself the possessor of a properly-made, fashionable coat--were he a Shakespeare, a Goethe, a Tieck, or a Jean Paul Richter--would run a decided risk of being beaten out of the field by any sufficiently well put-together lieutenant of hussars in uniform, if he took it -in his head to pay his addresses to one of them. Now in Fräulein Aennchen's case +in his head to pay his addresses to one of them. Now in Fräulein Aennchen's case it was a different matter altogether. It was neither good looks nor cleverness that were in question; but it is not exactly every day that a poor country lady becomes a queen all in a moment, and accordingly it was not very likely that @@ -18022,12 +17984,12 @@ Herr Dapsul should hit upon the cause which had been operating, particularly as the very stars had left him in the lurch.</p> <p class="normal">As may be supposed, those three, Herr Porphyrio, Herr Dapsul -and Fräulein Aennchen, were one heart and one soul. This went so far that Herr +and Fräulein Aennchen, were one heart and one soul. This went so far that Herr Dapsul left his tower oftener than he had ever been known to do before, to chat with his much-prized son-in-law on all sorts of agreeable subjects; and not only this, but he now regularly took his breakfast in the house. About this hour, too, Herr Porphyrio was wont to come forth from his silken palace, and eat a -good share of Fräulein Aennchen's bread and butter.</p> +good share of Fräulein Aennchen's bread and butter.</p> <p class="normal">"Ah, ah!" she would often whisper softly in his ear, "if papa only knew that you are a real king, dearest Cordovanspitz!"</p> @@ -18035,7 +17997,7 @@ only knew that you are a real king, dearest Cordovanspitz!"</p> <p class="normal">"Be still, oh heart! Melt not away in rapture," Daucus Carota the First would say. "Near, near is the joyful day!"</p> -<p class="normal">It chanced that the schoolmaster had sent Fräulein Aennchen a +<p class="normal">It chanced that the schoolmaster had sent Fräulein Aennchen a present of some of the finest radishes from his garden. She was particularly pleased at this, as Herr Dapsul was very fond of radishes, and she could not get anything from the vegetable garden because it was covered by the silk marquee. @@ -18094,7 +18056,7 @@ lamentation, crying, "Oh, daughter Anna! oh, my poor unfortunate daughter A Lost--I--you--both of us. All is over with us." With which he left the room, and ascended the astronomical tower as fast as his legs would carry him.</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen couldn't understand a bit, or form the very +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen couldn't understand a bit, or form the very slightest idea what in all the world had set her father into all this boundless misery all of a sudden. The whole thing had caused her the greatest pleasure; moreover, her heart was rejoiced that she had had an opportunity of seeing that @@ -18142,7 +18104,7 @@ Carrot bodyguard, or (as you don't care so much about fighting as about learning) in the Parsley Academy or the Pumpkin Office, you have but to say the word and your fortune is made. Farewell, and don't be vexed with</p> -<p class="hang1" style="margin-left:25%">"Your former <i>fiancée</i>, but now friend and well-wisher, as +<p class="hang1" style="margin-left:25%">"Your former <i>fiancée</i>, but now friend and well-wisher, as well as future Queen,</p> <p class="right" style="margin-right:15%">"<span class="sc">Anna von Zabelthau</span>.</p> @@ -18163,7 +18125,7 @@ have a statute specially enacted on the subject."</p> WE PROCEED WITH THE FUTURE COURSE OF EVENTS.</span></p> -<p class="continue">Fräulein Aennchen had just finished her letter to Herr Amandus +<p class="continue">Fräulein Aennchen had just finished her letter to Herr Amandus von Nebelstern, when in came Herr Dapsul von Zabelthau and began, in the bitterest grief and sorrow to say, "O, my daughter Anna, how shamefully we are both deceived and betrayed! This miscreant who made me believe he was Baron @@ -18181,7 +18143,7 @@ the lowest and most ignoble are the vegetable gnomes, and not only is this deceiver Cordovanspitz a gnome of this caste, but he is actual king of it, and his name is Daucus Carota."</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was far from fainting away, neither was she +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was far from fainting away, neither was she in the smallest degree frightened, but she smiled in the kindliest way at her lamenting papa, and the Courteous reader is aware of the reason. But as Herr Dapsul was very much surprised at this, and kept imploring her for Heaven's sake @@ -18211,7 +18173,7 @@ one of them away, who then wholly lays aside her human nature, and, becoming as shapeless as the gnomes themselves, has to go down into the earth, and is never more seen."</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen didn't seem disposed to believe what her +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen didn't seem disposed to believe what her father was telling her to her dear Daucus's discredit, but began talking again about the marvels of the beautiful vegetable country over which she was expecting so soon to reign as queen.</p> @@ -18225,7 +18187,7 @@ desperate methods. Come with me."</p> <p class="normal">For the second time she had to go up into the astronomical tower with her papa. From a big band-box Herr Dapsul took a quantity of yellow, -red, white, and green ribbon, and, with strange ceremonies, he wrapped Fräulein +red, white, and green ribbon, and, with strange ceremonies, he wrapped Fräulein Aennchen up in it from head to foot. He did the same to himself, and then they both went very carefully to the silken palace of Daucus Carota the First. It was close shut, and by her papa's directions, she had to rip a small opening in one @@ -18244,7 +18206,7 @@ kept fleering and leering at each other with bleared yellow eyes, and trying, with their little claws (which were close behind their ears), to catch hold of one another by their long roman noses, and drag each other down into the slime, while long, naked slugs were rolling about in crowds, with repulsive torpidity, -stretching their long horns out of their depths. Fräulein Aennchen was nearly +stretching their long horns out of their depths. Fräulein Aennchen was nearly fainting away at this horrid sight. She held both hands to her face, and ran away as hard as she could.</p> @@ -18282,7 +18244,7 @@ beside her royal husband, setting all the women, the schoolmaster's wife included, into amazement of admiration, and most likely, in fact, no doubt, instilling a proper sense of respect even into the minds of the pompous lord and lady of the manor themselves. Ay, indeed, how often had she been lapt in these -and other such eccentric dreams, and visions of the future!--Fräulein Aennchen +and other such eccentric dreams, and visions of the future!--Fräulein Aennchen burst into long and bitter weeping.</p> <p class="normal">"Anna, my daughter Anna," cried Herr Dapsul down through the @@ -18310,7 +18272,7 @@ She told Herr Dapsul this, and he was delighted, saying that the more they quarrelled in there the less they were likely to know what was being prepared for their destruction.</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was much surprised when she found that Herr +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen was much surprised when she found that Herr Dapsul had hammered out and made several most lovely kitchen-pots and stew-pans of copper. As an expert in such matters, she observed that the tinning of them was done in a most superior style, so that her @@ -18327,7 +18289,7 @@ confidence into his luckless daughter.</p> <p class="normal">Next day, as dinner-time came on, Herr Dapsul brought down his pots and pans, and betook himself to the kitchen, telling his daughter and the maid to go away and leave him by himself, as he was going to cook the dinner. He -particularly enjoined Fräulein Aennchen to be as kind and pleasant with +particularly enjoined Fräulein Aennchen to be as kind and pleasant with Cordovanspitz as ever she could, when he came in--as he was pretty sure to do.</p> <p class="normal">Cordovanspitz--or rather, King Daucus Carota the First--did @@ -18390,7 +18352,7 @@ pots and pans over him, and bestrewing him with chopped egg, mace, and grated breadcrumbs. Having done this, Daucus Carota darted out of the window, and his people after him.</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen sank down in terror beside the dish whereon +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen sank down in terror beside the dish whereon her poor papa lay, served up in this manner as if for table. She supposed he was dead, as he gave not the faintest sign of life.</p> @@ -18405,7 +18367,7 @@ meddling old goose of a Cabalist can do."</p> besom from all the chopped egg, the mace, and the grated breadcrumbs; and then he seized a copper pot, crammed it on his head by way of a helmet, took a frying-pan in his left hand, and a long iron kitchen ladle in his right, and -thus armed and accoutred, he darted out into the open. Fräulein Aennchen saw him +thus armed and accoutred, he darted out into the open. Fräulein Aennchen saw him running as hard as he could towards Cordovanspitz's marquee, and yet never moving from the same spot. At this her senses left her.</p> @@ -18419,7 +18381,7 @@ without his making his appearance. She could not but dread the very worst.</p> <p class="normal"><span class="sc">WHICH IS THE LAST--AND, AT THE SAME TIME, THE MOST EDIFYING OF ALL</span>.</p> -<p class="continue">Fräulein Aennchen was sitting in her room in the deepest +<p class="continue">Fräulein Aennchen was sitting in her room in the deepest sorrow, when the door opened, and who should come in but Herr Amandus von Nebelstern. All shame and contrition, she shed a flood of tears, and in the @@ -18465,11 +18427,11 @@ Yes, my dear girl, as you are going to be a queen so soon, you will always be the lady of my heart, and I will extol you to the stars in the sublimest and most celestial verses."</p> -<p class="normal">"What, you have seen him, the wicked Cobold?" Fräulein +<p class="normal">"What, you have seen him, the wicked Cobold?" Fräulein Aennchen broke out in the deepest amazement. "And he has----"</p> <p class="normal">But at that moment in came the little gnomish King himself, -and said, in the tenderest accents, "Oh, my sweet, darling <i>fiancée</i>! Idol of my +and said, in the tenderest accents, "Oh, my sweet, darling <i>fiancée</i>! Idol of my heart! Do not suppose for a moment that I am in the least degree annoyed with the little piece of rather unseemly conduct which Herr Dapsul von Zabelthau was guilty of. Oh, no--and indeed it has led to the more rapid fulfilment of my @@ -18481,7 +18443,7 @@ the trees, for I love the open air: and I will lie in your lap, while you, my most beloved bride elect, may scratch my head a little while he is singing--for I am fond of having my head scratched in such circumstances."</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennschen, turned to stone with horror and alarm, +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennschen, turned to stone with horror and alarm, made no resistance to this proposal. Daucus Carota, out under the trees, laid himself in her lap, she scratched his head, and Herr Amandus, accompanying himself on the guitar, began the first of twelve dozen @@ -18495,7 +18457,7 @@ wood, that he was crying and screaming out in such a style.</p> <p class="normal">Daucus Carota, in Aennschen's lap, twisted and writhed, and groaned and whined more and more lamentably, as if he had a violent pain in his -stomach. Moreover, Fräulein Aennchen fancied she observed, to her great +stomach. Moreover, Fräulein Aennchen fancied she observed, to her great amazement, that Cordovanspitz was growing smaller and smaller as the song went on. At last Herr Amandus sung the following sublime effusion (which is preserved in the Chronicle):--</p> @@ -18544,19 +18506,19 @@ little carrot creature is a vile, prosaic lubber, and none of your poetical kings, or my sublime lay wouldn't have given him the stomach-ache, and sent him scuttling into the ground."</p> -<p class="normal">As Fräulein Aennchen was standing in the vegetable garden, +<p class="normal">As Fräulein Aennchen was standing in the vegetable garden, where there wasn't the trace of a green blade to be seen, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in the finger which had on the fateful ring. At the same time a cry of piercing sorrow sounded from the ground, and the tip of a carrot peeped out. Guided by her inspiration she quickly took the ring off (it came quite easily this time), stuck it on to the carrot, and the latter disappeared, while the cry -of sorrow ceased. But, oh, wonder of wonders! all at once Fräulein Aennchen was +of sorrow ceased. But, oh, wonder of wonders! all at once Fräulein Aennchen was as pretty as ever, well-proportioned, and as fair and white as a country lady can be expected to be. She and her father rejoiced greatly, while Amandus stood puzzled, and not knowing what to make of it all.</p> -<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen took the spade from the maid, who had come +<p class="normal">Fräulein Aennchen took the spade from the maid, who had come running up, and flourished it in the air with a joyful shout of "Now let's set to work," in doing which she was unfortunate enough to deal Herr Amandus such a thwack on the head with it (just at the place where the Sensorium Commune is @@ -18568,11 +18530,11 @@ despairing lamentations, whilst the maid poured the contents of a watering pot over him, and Herr Dapsul quickly ascended the astronomic tower to consult the stars with as little delay as possible as to whether Herr Amandus was dead or not. But it was not long before the latter opened his eyes again, jumped to his -legs, clasped Fräulein Aennchen in his arms, and cried, with all the rapture of +legs, clasped Fräulein Aennchen in his arms, and cried, with all the rapture of affection, "Now, my best and dearest Anna, we are one another again."</p> <p class="normal">The very remarkable, scarcely credible effect of this -occurrence on the two lovers very soon made itself perceptible. Fräulein +occurrence on the two lovers very soon made itself perceptible. Fräulein Aennchen took a dislike to touching a spade, and she did really reign like a queen over the vegetable world, inasmuch as, though taking care that her vassals were properly supervised and attended to, she set no hand to the work herself, @@ -18590,7 +18552,7 @@ once more quite the sensible young gentleman, clear and open in heart and mind, which he had been originally.</p> <p class="normal">And one morning Herr Dapsul did actually come down from his -astronomical tower to go to church with Fräulein Aennchen and Herr Amandus von +astronomical tower to go to church with Fräulein Aennchen and Herr Amandus von Nebelstern on the occasion of their marriage.</p> <p class="normal">They led an exceedingly happy wedded life. 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