=Page 26.=--25-1. {=sich=} (dat. = {mit sich}), _with himself_; _in his mind_. 25-2. {=das=}, refers to the kissing and embracing. 25-3. {=kurze Verlobungszeit=}, while as a rule, in Germany, years elapse _between betrothal and marriage_ of a young couple. 25-4. {=bei mir=} ({zu Hause} being understood). 25-5. {=wohin´=} ({wir reisen sollten} being understood). 25-6. {kamen =gefahren=}. Note the idiomatic use of the perf. partic. instead of the pres. partic. after {kommen}--_came riding_ or _driving_. 25-7. {=wo ... hin´=fährt} (separated), for the more common form {wohin ... fährt}. Cf. Page 24, Note 2. 25-8. {=Kassel=}, capital of the Prussian province of Hesse-Kassel. 25-9. {=hast du=} (cf. Page 2, Note 1) = {wenn} (time) {du hast}. 25-10. {=Frankfurt a. M.=}, _Frankfurt-on-the-Main_ (river), a far-famed city of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.--From 1562 to 1792 the German emperors were crowned in the Frankfurt Cathedral. The town was also the residence of the German kings under the _Franconian_ Dynasty, 768-911, after whom the town has been named. 25-11. {=sagt=}--colloq. omission of an adverb as {darauf} or {da}. 25-12. {=da´hin laß mich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehen!=} _there, O, my true lov’d one, thou with me must go!_ (Thomas Carlyle).--These words of Mignon forming the refrain of each of the three strophes of Goethe’s ballad „Mignon“ (see page 28) are here skillfully and affectionately attributed to the young wife of the narrator. 25-13. {=uns=} (dat. of interest), humorously, trans. somewhat like _to our edification_. 25-14. {=wir gehen=}--present tense instead of the future, to express an immediate or certain future as if actually present, or it may be taken in the sense of an imperative. 25-15. {=Heidelberg=}, town in the grand-duchy of Baden, charmingly situated on the Neckar (river), with a famous university founded in 1386, the oldest in the present German Empire. 25-16. {Heidelberg, =das Wetterloch!=} (_bad weather-quarters_). In a similar manner, Joseph Victor Scheffel, the life-long admirer and bard of Heidelberg, complains of the wet character of the old university-town on the Neckar, in the closing line of the Preface to his “Gaudeamus,” a collection of merry college-songs, where he says: {„_Der_} genius loci {_Heidelbergs ist feucht_,“}--now a familiar quotation. 25-17. {=sitzt=}. Cf. Note 11, above. 25-18. {=im „Ritter,“=} i.e. {im Hotel „zum Ritter,“} an inn in the Market-Square of Heidelberg, erected in 1592, almost the only house in town which escaped destruction by the French in 1693. =Page 27.=--27-1. {=Freiburg im Breisgau=}, also called {Freiburg in Baden} (abbrev. {Freiburg i. B.}, for either designation), a town with university, in the southern part of the grand-duchy of Baden, beautifully situated on the western edge of the Black Forest.--About {Breisgau} see the Vocabulary. 27-2. {=u. s. w.=} (abbrev. for {und so weiter}), _and so on_.