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The few English and Americans whose help she might have asked regarded her with suspicion, and it looked as if her father would be unable to send for her. This was daunting but it was not the worst. Richter had vaguely hinted at Kenwardine's business, which was obviously mysterious. She saw where his hints led, but she would not follow up the clue.
But Richter, suddenly divining, laid his hands impulsively on Stephen's shoulders. "Ach, I see," he said. "Stephen, I have saved some money. It shall be for your mother while you are away." At first Stephen was too surprised for speech. Then, in spite of his feelings, he stared at the German with a new appreciation of his character. Then he could merely shake his head.
Then came Swift, Sterne, with others less distinguished; in Germany, Hippel, the friend of Kant, Harmann, the obscure; and the greatest of the whole body John Paul Fr. Richter.
Richter walked home as far as Stephen's house. He was to take the Fifth Street car for South St. Louis. And they talked of Tom's courage, and of the broad and secret military organization the Leader had planned that night. But Stephen did not sleep till the dawn. Was he doing right? Could he afford to risk his life in the war that was coming, and leave his mother dependent upon charity?
Stephen only nodded. He had never spoken of the bitterness of that, even to his mother. And here was the difference between the Saxon and the Anglo-Saxon. Richter smoked his pipe 'mid dreamy silence, the tear still wet upon his face. "Tiefel and I were at the University together," he said at length. "He remembers the day I left Jena for good and all.
Take as an example the following description of the dawn, quoted by Jean Paul Richter: "The sky was beginning to change from black to red, like a lobster being boiled."
"One of the highest families in the country, possessing great wealth and influence allied to the Spanish nobility by marriage." "Indeed!" rejoined the commandant, musing "I dare say he knows many of the Portuguese as well." "No doubt of it, they are all more or less connected." "He must prove to you a most valuable friend, Signor Richter."
He acts out also whatever he is puzzling about, and by making the terms of his problem clear to his consciousness usually solves it. As for dancing, Richter exclaims: "I know not whether I should most deprecate children's balls or most praise children's dances. Music is the meter of this poetic movement, and is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music.
Six six-pounders were immediately brought up, in order to protect the position against a fresh attack of the enemy. Captain Richter, who commanded them, under the orders of Colonel Blumenstihl, was pierced in the thigh by a ball; he would not, however, leave the field, but remained in the midst of the fire.
In this respect Richter creates an ideal and interfuses it with all his natural ardor, which a German can understand better than the men of any other nation, for in him is the tendency that Richter seeks to set forth by his passionate imagination. Orestes and Pylades, David and Jonathan, and the other famous loves of men, are suspected by the calculating breeds of people.
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