Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I.Jean Paul
General
Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I.
Jean Paul
Fiction
Letter from Emanuel.--Flamin's Fruit-Pieces on Shoulders.--Walk to
St. Luna.--Fifth Intercalary Day.
21. DOG-POST-DAY.
Victor's Professional Visits.--Concerning Houses full of
Daughters.--The Two Fools.--The Carrousel.
22. DOG-POST-DAY.
Gun-Foundery of Love; e. g. Printed Gloves, Quarrels, Dwarf-Flasks,
and Stabs.-A Title from the Digests of Love.--Marie.--Court-Day.--
Giulia's dying Epistle.
23. DOG-POST-DAY.
First Visit to Clotilda.--The Paleness.--The Redness.--The
Race-Weeks.
24. DOG-POST-DAY.
Rouge.--Clotilda's Sickness.--The Play of Iphigenia.--Difference
between Plebeian and Patrician Love.--Sixth Intercalary Day.
HESPERUS,
OR
45 DOG-POST-DAYS.
1. DOG-POST-DAY.
Difference between the 1st and 4th of May.--Rat-Battle-Pieces.--
Nocturne.--Three Regiments in future Breeches.--Couching-Needle.--
Overture and Secret Instructions of the Book.
In the house of the Court-Chaplain Eymann, in the bathing-village of
St. Luna, there were two parties: the one was glad on the 30th of April
that our hero, the young Englishman, Horion, would return from
Göttingen the 1st of May to stay at the parsonage,--the other disliked
it; they did not want him to arrive till the 4th of May.
The party of the 1st of May, or Tuesday, consisted of the Chaplain's
son, Flamin, who had been educated with the Englishman till his twelfth
year in London, and till his eighteenth in St. Luna, and whose heart
with all its venous ramifications had grown into the Briton's, and in
whose ardent breast during the long Göttingen separation there had been
_one_ heart too few; next, of the Chaplain's wife, a native
Englishwoman, who loved in my hero a countryman, because the magnetic
vortex of nationality reached her soul over land and sea; and, finally,
of their eldest daughter, Agatha, who all day long laughed out at
everything and doted on everything without knowing why, and who, with
her polypus-arms, drew every one to herself who did not live quite too
many houses off from her, as food for her heart.
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