In Passion-week Clotilda, released by the Princess amidst caresses, went to St. Luna. In Easter-week she is to carry her heart, full of concealed cares, to Maienthal, to more congenial souls, when she has first passed through a purgatory, namely, through a brilliant ball which the Prince gives her--or, to speak more politely, to the Princess--on the third Easter-holiday.... If this flower shall be dug out and transplanted by the melon-lever of death from my biographical beds,--I throw away my pen and cudgel back Spitz,--I have come to be as much accustomed to her as to a betrothed,--where shall I again discover at court a female character which, like hers, unites _holy_ and _fine_ manners, _Heaven_ and _this world_, virtue and _ton_,--a heart which (if it is allowable to compare it with anything small) resembles the heart-shaped _montre à régulateur_ so tormenting to our hero, that with the index-hand of the court hours combines an index-hand of the sun's hours and the magnet of love? Now, we are still together through all the Easter-holidays; for Sebastian must go to Pastor Eymann's, to see him and the three British twins, and his dear Chaplainess, and so much else that was dear. He would gladly have followed the Regency-Councillor thither on holy Easter-eve, (and it would have been as delightful to the biographer as an Easter-pancake, for he is more than sated with cities and courts on paper,) but the genius of the tenderest friendship beckoned to him for the sake of Flamin and Clotilda, who had both so long wanted and so longingly wished each other, and were now reciprocally bringing with them to the meeting new wounds, to stay behind at least only till the first Easter-day, as if he would ask, "Surely, the first glad looks of brother and sister so long held asunder, my unhappy Sebastian will not wish to disturb?"--"No, surely!" answered his tear. The city was now emptied of his loved ones.--Passion-week was truly one to him, not even the Princess, as it were the electrophorus of his love-flame blown back upon his own heart, had for a long time been visible to him,--for in this mood he could not go to Joachime's----when the father-confessor of the Princess, who to-day had confessed to him (on holy Easter-eve), called upon him and unfolded before him a medical bulletin of the state of her eyes, and scolded at him in a friendly manner, that the Court-Confessor, instead of bringing remission of sins to the Court-Physician, had to bring the sins themselves before his conscience. "I was on the point of making a journey to-morrow," said Victor.--"Very well!" said the Pater, "the Princess desires your help this very day."