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He laughed with the local surgeon, and pointed out the moon and the lakes of mist as though we had driven out to observe the view. I could not think of anything to do which would show that I was unconcerned too, so I got back into the carriage and stretched my feet out to the seat opposite, and continued to smoke my cigar. Incidentally, by speaking to Lowell, I hurt Von Ritter's feelings.
Ritter's coachman, or valet, or at best his business manager." Miss Burns took out her little purse, refusing to let Frederick pay for her, and they stepped out again into the busy streets. "By Jove," said Frederick, whose manner when in the hurly-burly changed completely, "what a lot of stuff I have been chattering! I deserve to be punished for trying your patience to such an extent.
With gentle ardour he pressed his lips to her head, loosened the ribbon tying her hair at the nape of her neck, and plunged his fingers deep into the wave of flowing gold. "Where were you?" the girl asked. Frederick told her of Peter Schmidt and the exhilarating afternoon in Ritter's studio. "I don't like that sort of thing," she said. "How can people drink wine?"
When Ritter entered, they all laughed heartily at his genuine passion for sculpture. "When I return to Europe," he said, "I must immediately make portraits of my three children." Miss Burns and Willy Snyders had actually made Frederick proud by their praise, though in Ritter's presence they turned silent awaiting the master's verdict.
He told of beautiful parks far amid the solitude of the high Sierras, great mountain meadows where shy deer grazed, of crystal lakes that lay embowered in many a hidden mountain spot, of Mount Ritter's grandeur and the dizzy heights of Mount Whitney, till Job's head reeled, and he fell asleep that night dreaming of standing on the jagged, topmost summit of a lofty peak, with all the mountains going round and round below him, till he grew dizzy and fell and fell and found himself wide awake, listening to the hoot of a distant owl and the breathing of his tawny host stretched out under the sky by the dying embers of the camp-fire.
Here is Ritter's rendering, as made into English by his translator, Morrison: "For exactly as each has the state of his limbs many-jointed, So invariably stands it with men in their mind and their reason; For the system of limbs is that which thinketh in mankind Alike in all and in each: for thought is the fulness."
Perhaps you have a Washington memorial ready-made in your waistcoat pocket." "No, but by eight thirty-five this evening I will have one for you." "He can do it, too," said Willy, patting his idol. "That is why he fits so well into the United States of America." The men now entered Ritter's real workshop. Here there were pieces very different in spirit.
Ritter's overtures was a proposal that American vessels would be spared in order to avoid actual war if the United States assented to the continuance of the extended blockade against England. This implied that all other vessels, neutral or belligerent, were marked for destruction.
The difference is intentional, since Lewes himself criticises the translation of Ritter. Ritter's translation is certainly the more literal, but the fact that such diversity is possible suggests one of the chief elements of uncertainty that hamper our interpretation of the thought of antiquity.
When I had been this Karl Ritter's daily and sole intimate during two months, he one day said, abruptly 'I will tell you my story. Then he went on as follows: I have never given up, until now. But now I have given up. I am going to die. I made up my mind last night that it must be, and very soon, too. You say you are going to revisit your river, by-and-bye, when you find opportunity.
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