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How, indeed, if he went to the fanatics of Union Street and said to them, "Richard Gessner is your enemy; strike at him." There would be vengeance surely, but he had received too many kindnesses at Hampstead that he should contemplate such an infamy. And what other course lay before him? He could not say, his life seemed lived.
For example, a shepherd of Gessner can neither charm by the illusion of nature nor by the beauty of imitation; he is too ideal a being for that, but he does not satisfy us any more as an ideal by the infinity of the thought: he is a far too limited creature to give us this satisfaction.
To this point he charged himself lightly as men will in justifying themselves before the finger of an hoary accusation. Gessner cared neither for God nor man. His only daughter had been at once his divinity and his religion. Let men call him a rogue, despot, or thief, and he would shrug his shoulders and glance aside at his profit and loss account.
There is Claire de Saponay, who has read all of Walter Scott's novels, Maleck-Adel, Eugenie and Mathilde and I do not know how many more; Gessner, Mademoiselle de Lafayette she has read everything; and I they have let me read Numa Ponzpilius and Paul and Virginia. Isn't that ridiculous at sixteen years of age?"
He will go to Warsaw and tell the lady that she may obtain her father's liberty upon a condition. Let her make a direct appeal to the Government and we will consider it. Of course you intend an immediate departure you are not contemplating a delay, Herr Gessner?" "Delay am I the man to delay? He shall go to-morrow by the first train." A smile hovered upon the Count's face in spite of himself.
I ought, perhaps, before quitting this department, to recall the merits in this style of Uz, Denis, Gessner in the "Death of Abel" Jacobi, Gerstenberg, Hoelty, De Goeckingk, and several others, who all knew how to touch by ideas, and whose poems belong to the sentimental kind in the sense in which we have agreed to understand the word.
A change had come upon him already. For Anna Gessner had betrayed her secret, and he knew that she had a lover. Richard Gessner returned to "Five Gables" as the clock of Hampstead Parish Church was striking one. A yawning footman met him in the hall and asked him if he wished for anything. To the man's astonishment, he was ordered to carry brandy and Vichy water to the bedroom immediately.
This had he come from Paris to tell this was the news that Richard Gessner heard with less apparent emotion than though one had told him of the pettiest event of a common day. "The matter has been very badly bungled," he said. "I shall write to General Trepoff and complain of it. Do you not see how inconvenient this is?
Of her father's intentions in bringing this beggar-boy to the house, she knew nothing at all. It seemed to her one of those mad acts for which no sane apology could be offered. "He is here now, Fellows! Who brought him then?" "Mr. Geary at six o'clock." "Mr. Geary is a hateful busybody I suppose I must speak to the boy." "I think that Mr. Gessner would wish it, miss."
We slept at his house, and next morning returned to Zurich, where we called on our particular friend Professor Gessner and his family, and we rejoiced mutually to see each other again.
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