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Would not the steady massiveness of Goethe's nature have been splendidly adorned by the arabesques and intricately graceful woof of Bettine's? Now it was spring flowers on an old brow, with all the sweetness, but not the freshness, of youth. The imperial Goethe, supreme in wisdom and age, smelling a violet!
"She'll bust an' die one day then," prophesied William solemnly, "an' I shan't be sorry." "But she'll look ever so beautiful when she's a May Queen." "You'd look nicer," said William. Bettine's small pale face flamed. "Oh no," she said. "Would you like to be a May Queen?" "Oh, yes," she said. "Um," said William, and returned to the discomfiture of Evangeline Fish by his steady concentrated scowl.
So be it then; we will turn to a vexed question, which has a literary importance, and see what light Marx throws upon it. We refer to Bettine's letters to Goethe upon Beethoven, and the composer's letters to her, the authority of which has been strongly questioned. Marx gives them, Vol.
Once Ethel had been to a fancy dress dance as a Fairy. Over Bettine's print frock he drew a crumpled gauze slip with wings, torn in several places. On her brow he placed a tinsel crown at a rakish angle. And she quivered with happiness. "Oh, how lovely!" she said. "How lovely! How lovely!" His own preparations were simpler.
At this time he went a good deal into literary society, and became intimate with several women-writers, among them the Graefin Hahn-Hahn, Rahel, and that amazing lady, Bettine von Arnim. With the last-named he struck up an intellectual friendship which roused the jealousy of Lucie, and was finally wrecked by Bettine's attempts to obtain a spiritual empire over the lord of Muskau.
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