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He paid his court to the Countess Braun, but he had rivals there who were not afraid of him. He was rich enough, but did not know how to spend his money; and avarice is a sin which meets with no pity from the Russian ladies. I went to Czarsko-Zelo, Peterhoff, and Cronstadt, for if you want to say you have been in a country you should see as much as possible of it.
As soon as he could be moved, Braun took him to Carlsruhe, where his convalescence was carefully watched over by his friend's mother. Being still delicate he was advised to recruit in his native air, and he returned to Orbe, accompanied by Braun, who did not leave him till he had placed him in safety with his parents.
The following extracts from the correspondence between himself and Braun give some account of this interval spent at home. ORBE, May 26, 1827. . . .Since I have been here, I have walked faithfully and have collected a good number of plants which are not yet dry. I have more than one hundred kinds, about twenty specimens of each.
Tri-Centennial Durer Festival at Nuremberg. Agssiz accepted with delight his friend's proposition, and toward the end of October, 1827, he and Braun left Carlsruhe together for the University of Munich.
At night she dozed. Suddenly she got up: Braun ran to her. She looked at him strangely, and babbled impatient formless words. He asked her: "My dear Anna, what do you want?" She said harshly: "Go and bring him." "Who?" he asked. She looked at him once more with the same expression and suddenly burst out laughing: then she drew her hands over her forehead and moaned: "Oh! my God! Let me forget!..."
'He shall take care of Cordova with his conscience! I tell you, I will frighten him! This was possible, and even probable. Margaret looked after the broad figure. 'Dear old Stromboli! she laughed. 'He has the kindest heart in the world, said little Fraeulein Ottilie Braun. 'He is no a musician, observed Herr Tiefenbach; 'but he does not sing out of tune.
Usually Braun did not take much notice of her feminine caprices. He would explain them to Christophe at length. Like all men fated to be deceived by women he flattered himself that he knew them through and through. He did know something about them, as a matter of fact, but a little knowledge is quite useless.
That is the last I have been able to hear of him. A few days after the battle of Spion Kop we moved forward and opened another office on our right wing. The British soon after retired from the vicinity, and this wing was withdrawn. The office remained, however, being utilised by scouts and patrols for the transmission of urgent reports. One day Oberst von Braun called, accompanied by two Boers.
Among the most prominent advocates of this view, we may name the late Sir Charles Lyell, Mivart, and Richard Owen, in England; and in Germany, Alexander Braun, Ecker, Gegenbaur, Oswald Heer, W. His, Nägeli, Rütimeyer, Schaaffhausen, Virchow, Karl Vogt, A. W. Volkmann, Weismann, Zittel, and here also Moriz Wagner, and among the philosophers, Eduard von Hartmann.
A week later Christophe was trying over a song he had just composed, on the piano. Braun, who had a mania, due partly to marital vanity and partly to love of teasing, for worrying his wife to sing and play, had been particularly insistent that evening.
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