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Updated: June 9, 2025
Every unmarried man who has arrived at a certain age is now here called after them in derision, "Pebersvend" old bachelor. It was necessary to relate all this, in order that our story might be understood. People made great fun of these old bachelors; laughed at their nightcaps, at their drawing them down over their eyes, and so retiring to their couches. "Saw the firewood, saw it through!
Many were the dreams about him, day-dreams and night-dreams, that were dreamed in front of all manner of little filigree bird nest bonnets and under snowy nightcaps; and at the slightest encouragement on his part, no doubt, the idea of himself which had been manufactured in many minds would have been fallen in love with. The reality certainly would not have been.
I. "What do you suppose it meant?" H. "He took you for a North American Indian." I. "What do you mean?" H. "He did not understand your patois." I. "What patois?" H. "Your squaw dialect. You should have asked for a bonnet de nuit." I. "Why?" H. "People never talk about nightcaps in good society." I. "Oh!"
No less than seven little men and women in nightcaps, in frocks, in bibs, in breeches, are clambering about the head, knees, and arms of the man with the nose; their noses, too, are preternaturally developed the twins in the cradle have noses of the most considerable kind. Not handsome certainly are they, and yet everybody must be charmed with the picture. It is full of grotesque beauty.
This literature took the form of fiction, drama, and journalism, as well as of poetry. Heine's impatience with German conditions led him to expatriate himself, and from his retreat in Paris to aim venomous shafts of satire at his native land, with its "three dozen masters" and its philistine conservative nightcaps and dumplings.
Some wanted jackets; others, from want of hats, wore nightcaps; each was, in fact, more or less curtailed in his wardrobe, and it must be confessed that at best the party were but in a very tattered condition.
Old bachelors, there's work for you. To bed with you your nightcaps go; Put out your lights, and cry, 'O woe!" Yes, such songs were made on them. People ridiculed the old bachelor and his nightcap, just because they knew so little about him, or it. Alas! let no one desire such a nightcap. And why not? Listen!
I spent a Sunday in Palermo, and was much pleased at seeing the peasants in their festive garb, in which, however, I could discover nothing handsome; nor, indeed, any thing peculiar, save the long pendent nightcaps.
Mossed tree-trunks, leaning over the bustling stream; emerald moss carpets between the bronze dead leaves; all manner of mosses; mosses with little nightcaps; mosses like doll's ferns; mosses like plump cushions; and upon them here and there blazes the glowing red of the small peziza-cups.
A more astounding resemblance to the phantasm of a dream was never presented. He was clad in a manner to show forth the condition of his wits, in partial night and day attire: one of the farmer's nightcaps was on his head, surmounted by his hat.
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