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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Well," says Tita to this long English lad, who is lying sprawling on the grass, "I can safely tell you this, that Franziska likes you very well." He suddenly jumps up, and there is a great blush on his face. "Has she said so?" he asks, eagerly. "Oh yes! in a way. She thinks you are good-natured. She likes the English generally. She asked me if that ring you wear was an engaged ring."
Franziska fairly blushed for pleasure; not that the skin of a fox was very valuable for her, but that the compliment was so open and marked. She came forward, in German fashion, and rather shyly shook hands with him in token of her thanks. When Tita was getting ready for dinner I told her about the yellow fox. A married man must have no secrets.
"After this cruel affair he won't like to go about much." "You remember that he promised to go with us to the Black Forest?" "Yes; and I am sure it will be a pleasant trip for him." "Shall we go to Huferschingen?" "I suppose so." "Franziska is a pretty girl." Now you would not think that any great mischief could be done by the mere remark that Franziska was a pretty girl.
Tita laid down her book. She was a little anxious. Sometimes you could see Charlie and Franziska on the path by the side of the lake; at other times the thick trees by the water's side hid them. The solitary oar dipped in the lake; the boat glided along the shores. Tita took up her book again.
But this is nevertheless true, that our important but diminutive Queen Tita was very thoughtful during the rest of our walk to this little church; and in church, too, she was thinking so deeply that she almost forgot to look at the effect of the decorations she had nailed up the day before. Yet nothing could have offended in the bare observation that Franziska was a pretty girl.
What need to tell of our success with the trout and the grayling, or of the beautiful weather, or of the attentive and humble manner in which the unfortunate youth addressed Franziska from time to time? In the evening we drove back to Huferschingen. It was a still and beautiful evening, with the silence of the twilight falling over the lonely valleys and the miles upon miles of darkening pines.
"I will go and tell her, certainly; but as for apologising to Krumm, that is absurd!" "As you please," says Tita. By-and-by Franziska or rather Miss Fahler came out of the small garden and round by the front of the house. "O Miss Fahler," says Charlie, suddenly, and with that she stops and blushes slightly, "I've got something to say to you. I am going to make a confession.
I would take my oath that Apollo is thinking of some long-forgotten Acadian dances which old Chiron taught him to play on the cithern when he was young." "Exactly," applauded Franziska, who was standing behind Mozart's chair. Turning to him, she continued, "Do you see that bough heavy with fruit, bending down toward the god?" "Yes; that is the olive-tree, which was sacred to him." "Not at all.
The other two are birthday greetings to Franziska von Hohenheim effusions of 'gratitude', as it is called. The gratitude purports to come, in one of the poems, from the ecole des demoiselles, which Franziska had founded as a feminine pendant to the academy. Schiller's verses, truth to tell, sound like rank fustian. The duke's mistress is glorified as a paragon of virtue.
Recalling my unjust behaviour on this occasion, I therefore made a point of alluding specially to Brendel's services when speaking in public some time afterwards on Judaism in Music, by way of atonement, as it were, to this man, who had died in the meantime. The arrival of Alexander Ritter with my niece Franziska helped to enliven us.
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