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Yet, precisely amid this apparently great un-happiness lay the stepping-stones of a better fortune. As I found myself again abandoned, and was pondering by myself upon what was best for me next to do, it occurred to me that the Poet Guldberg, a brother of the Colonel of that name in Odense, who had shown me so much kindness, lived in Copenhagen.
"Un-happiness like this is contagious," she thought. "And all because one man has ceased to love her! What utter folly!" Aloud she said only, "I came to ask you to go with me to the Harrisons' dance." "To-morrow? Oh, Corinna, I couldn't!" "Do you remember that blue dress the one that is the colour of wild hyacinths?" "Yes, but I couldn't wear it again, and I haven't anything else."
'By heaven, I cannot endure this! said Tancred, advancing. 'Death seems to me preferable to her un-happiness. Dearest of women! 'Do not call me that, she murmured. 'I can bear anything from your lips but words of fondness. And pardon all this; I am not myself to-day.
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