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Three days before she had been betrothed to young Karl Winckler, a descendant of the notary Anselmus. As I had fallen asleep over my writing she read through undisturbed the book that had fallen from my hands onto the floor. And so the secret was betrayed, for of course she told the story to her lover.
In the letter which the doctor handed to Herr Winckler, the guardian of his son, shortly before his death, he desired the notary, or his successor, to give to his son Zeno, on the morning of his twenty-fifth birthday, the sealed package containing the phial, together with the accompanying manuscript.
Those of my sister's records which refer to the revolutionary period begin with a mention of the so-called potato revolution, which occurred ten days after the opening of the General Assembly, though it had no connection with it. The assembled crowd then plundered some bakers' and butchers' shops, and was finally dispersed by the military. A certain Herr Winckler is said to have lost his life.
Three days before she had been betrothed to young Karl Winckler, a descendant of the notary Anselmus. As I had fallen asleep over my writing she read through undisturbed the book that had fallen from my hands onto the floor. And so the secret was betrayed, for of course she told the story to her lover.
They must already have been on the march when in a happy moment it occurred to a keeper of the royal archives to conceal the clay tablets in the earth and thus save them for remote posterity. The best translation of the Tell el Amarna tablets available for English readers is that from the German of H. Winckler, published by Luzac, London, 1896.
When death overtook Herr Winckler, from whose mouth Zeno used to hear many bitter tirades against the elixir, and Melchior's son found himself entirely alone, and making always more enemies by his irrepressible instinct to speak out what he thought to be the truth, he would sometimes ask himself if it were not better to destroy the elixir, which had brought him nothing but misery, and thus to spare his son and succeeding generations.
VR. 33, col. v. l. 40. Winckler, Die Keilschrifttexte Sargon's, p. 172 and p. xxvi, note. For examples, see the Assyrian contract tablets translated by Peiser, Keils Bibl. iv. 98 and passim. See the passage Shalmanaser obelisk, ll. 174, 175, and Peiser's comment, Keils Bibl. iv. 106, note. Burton, A Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, iii. chapter vii. See above, p. 686.
For various views regarding the name and character of this dynasty see Winckler, Geschichte, pp. 67, 68, 328; Hilprecht, Assyriaca, pp. 25-28, 102, 103; Winckler, Altorientalische Forschungen, I. 275-277, and Rogers, Outlines, 32, note. See Delitzsch, Die Sprache der Kossaer. The Babylonian religion in the oldest form known to us may best be described as a mixture of local and nature cults.
At midnight the friends parted, deeply moved, and Herr Winckler told his wife that he had never seen any man, let alone the solemn Melchior, so bubbling over and beaming with happiness, and if one could judge by the radiance of his glance, and the fire of his youthful enthusiasm, his friend had many more good years to live.
But she closed the phial as quickly as she had opened for she experienced so strange a sensation, her blood beat through her veins so oddly, that, impelled by some inner force, and regardless of the presence of Herr Winckler, and the tact which she usually displayed, she cried out: "So that, then, is your inheritance!
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