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When he had paid some little attention to his toilet, he received a message from Madame Von Berlingen, requesting the favor of an interview in her apartments. He mechanically obeyed the summons, though ill fitted to sustain a conversation with a lady. The widow requested him to be seated. "Mr. Walstein," said she, with a smile, "you are growing very ungallant.
Walstein to your care. When I return in the evening, do not let me find that our friend has escaped. 'I am sure that though unhappy he is not ungallant, replied Caroline, with a smile; and she took his offered arm, and ascended her seat. Swiftly the little ponies scudded along the winding roads. The Corso was as yet but slightly attended.
On this occasion the emperor's eldest son, Joseph, who was the heir apparent, represented, with the Countess of Traun, the ancient Egyptians. His brother, the Archduke Charles, and the Countess of Walstein appeared as Flemings in the reign of Charles V. His sister Mary and Count Fraun were Tartars. Josephine, another daughter of Leopold, with the Count of Workla, represented Persians.
Walstein himself, indeed, was not very talkative, but his manner indicated that he was interested, and when he made an observation it was uttered with facility, and arrested attention by its justness or its novelty. It was an agreeable party. They had discussed several light topics. At length they diverged to the supernatural. Mr.
'And your distemper has increased in proportion with your solitude? 'It would superficially appear so, observed Walstein; 'but I consider my present distemper as not so much the result of solitude, as the reaction of much converse with society. I am gloomy at present from a sense of disappointment of the past. 'You are disappointed, observed Schulembourg. 'What, then, did you expect?
Walstein, said Madame de Schulembourg. Walstein looked around, and recognised the English minister, and had the pleasure of being introduced, for the first time, to a celebrated sculptor. 'I have heard of your name, not only in Germany, said Walstein, addressing the latter gentleman. 'You have left your fame behind you at Rome.
At the head of the table sat a man in a gray wig, with a pair of green spectacles upon his nose, before whom lay a pile of gold, and who was busily engaged in paying and receiving money, and in giving an impetus to a small ivory ball, which spun at intervals its appointed course. Walstein soon learned that this was a rouge-et-noir table. The gentleman in the gray wig was the banker.
Nevertheless, I have, of late, become the victim of a deep and inscrutable melancholy, which I can ascribe to no cause, and can divert by no resource. Can you throw any light upon my dark feelings? Can you remove them? 'How long have you experienced them? inquired the physician. 'More or less ever since my return, replied Walstein; 'but most grievously during the last three months.
He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion. 'Passion is the ship, and reason is the rudder, observed Schulembourg. 'And thus we pass the ocean of life, said Walstein. 'Would that I could discover a new continent of sensation! 'Do you mix much in society? said the physician. 'By fits and starts, said Walstein. 'A great deal when I first returned: of late little.
Walstein says: "It is through the sub-conscious self that Shakespeare must have perceived, without effort, great truths which are hidden from the conscious mind of the student; that Phidias painted marble and bronze; that Raphael painted Madonnas, and Beethoven composed symphonies."
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