Page:Stories Translated from the German.djvu/209

 praises, couched in a continual, and if possible, an increasing admiration. All were delighted that their great master should be thus acknowledged by foreigners.

The lady stated, that she already enjoyed in anticipation the happiness of seeing again, that evening, in the house of the ambassador, the man who daily became dearer to her sentiments and to her heart; that his presence alone would shed incense and true nobility over the large and brilliant assembly—

"She already begins to think perfectly like a German," said the young count Von Nettling, in this place,—"she could never have brought such opinions with her from France."—

"Thus it is," added a young poet, "the French will only form themselves into a true, peculiar nation by means of us Germans, after they have become more intimate with us and our literature. These continual fresh arrivals of travellers reminds one of Joshua and Kaleb, who were sent forward to find out the promised happy land for the inhabitants of the desert."

"And," said a third, "does not this widow immediately carry back with her an immense bunch