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Updated: June 24, 2025
Mild eyes flashed, grey beards wagged. The deliberation was brief, the sentence just. A committee waited on Daniel to inform him that his compositions had been struck from the programme. The news spread like wild-fire. Who was happier than Jason Philip Schimmelweis? He was like a man who gets up from the table with a full stomach, after having sat down at it fearing lest he starve to death.
Herr Pflaum, being the landlord, intended to occupy the first and second floors; he had a large family. One beautiful August afternoon, the two men—the apothecary and the bookseller—left the office of Judge Rübsam, where they had gone to sign the papers transferring the mortgage on the Schimmelweis property. A cloudless sky, already tinted with the blue of the descending sun, shone over the city.
After a few minutes of painful stillness she walked up to Daniel, and plucked him by the coat-sleeve: “Eh, you don’t know who I am?” she asked, and her squinty eyes shone on him with enigmatic savagery: “I am Philippina; you know, Philippina Schimmelweis.” Daniel stepped back from her: “Well, what of it?” he asked, wrinkling his brow.
He no longer hesitated, after this illumination from above, to offer Fräulein Schimmelweis his heart and his hand forever and a day, insist though he must that she give the matter due consideration, in the proper Christian spirit, before taking the all-important step. Philippina was restless; she rocked back and forth, first on one foot and then on another—and then burst out laughing.
The result of this was that when people passed by the Schimmelweis bookshop, they stopped before the window, looked at his latest output, and smiled contemptuously. The workman’s insurance no longer paid as it used to, for the credit of the Prudentia and its agents had suffered a violent setback. The rise and fall in bourgeois life follows a well established law.
If his foot chanced to strike against a chair, Gertrude shuddered. Shortly after eight, steps were heard outside. The key rattled in the front gate, the room door opened, and in came Eleanore—and Philippina Schimmelweis. Everybody looked at Philippina; even Jordan himself honoured her with a faint glance. Daniel and Gertrude were amazed.
A meeting of the Social Democrats was being held in Gosten Court. They had met to discuss the Chancellor’s speech on accident insurance. The first speaker was Deputy Störbecker. But his voice had no carrying power, and what he said died away almost unheard. Jason Philip Schimmelweis followed him. He presented a fearful indictment of the government.
Among those present at the wedding in the Ægydius Church were Judge and Frau Rübsam, Councillor Bock, Impresario Dörmaul, Philippina Schimmelweis, Marian Nothafft, and Inspector Jordan. On the very last bench sat Herr Carovius; underneath one of the pillars, unseen by most of the people in the church, stood Baron Eberhard von Auffenberg.
Later Eleanore arranged to have the walks, which were to take place two or three times a month, postponed until after sunset. This was quite agreeable to Philippina. She threw out a hint every now and then that there was a mysterious feud between the Schimmelweis family and the Nothaffts, and implored Eleanore never to let Daniel know that she was taking these walks with her.
I can despise Mushroom Mike who lies down by his wife at night drunk as a fool, and to whom the name of Beethoven is an empty sound; Jason Philip Schimmelweis makes me laugh when he looks me in the face and says, I don’t give a damn for all your art.
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