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One day, after she had been in Berlin a little while, she found him. Brampenrich describes the scene for us, so beautifully and with such truly exquisite rotundity of style: "The Great Goethe ate at his lunch. What was that noise? He swiftly put down his knife: the door bursts open; Gretchen Schmidt enters, her lovely hair awry, her cheeks flushed. 'I will act! she cries in bell-like tones.
'Ach, ach! cries Goethe. Then Gretchen, with a superb gesture, hangs her hat on the door handle, and recites to the amazed man his beloved 'Faust, word for word, syllable for syllable!" Thus Brampenrich shows us, with his supreme word imagery, what really happened. Gretchen never saw Goethe again; he left Berlin almost immediately for the Black Forest.