But a soul like his is more easily appeased with sorrow than with joy. As if the reality had already arrived, he pressed on still further; indescribably fair and unearthly, he saw Liana's image trembling in her cup of sorrow; for the crown of thorns easily ennobles a head to a Christ's head, and the blood of an undeserved wound is a redness on the cheek of the inner man, and the soul which has suffered too much is easily loved too much. The tender Liana appeared to him as already spun into the funeral veil for the Flora of the second world, as the tender limbs of the bee-nymph lie transparently folded over the little breast,--the white form of snow, which had once, in his dream, melted away on his heart, opened the bright little cloud again, and looked, blind and weeping, upon the earth, and said, "Albano, I shall die before I have seen thee."--"And even if thou shouldst never see me," said the dying heart in his breast, "yet will I still love thee. And even if thou shouldst soon pass away, Liana, still I gladly choose sorrow, and walk faithfully with thee till thou art in heaven."... Heaven and hell had both at once drawn aside their curtains before him,--only a few notes, and those the same as before, and only the highest, and that only interruptedly and faintly, could he any longer strike; and at last his hands sank down, and he began to weep, but without too severe pangs,--as the storm which has unburdened itself of its lightnings and thunders stands now over the earth only as a soft, diffused rain. FOOTNOTES: [45] One who dedicated a new house (somewhat as we name a ship). The _glass fire-bucket_ which _quenched the inner conflagration_ was probably the wine-glass or beer-tumbler.--TR. [46] Collegians.--TR. [47] Provincial Physician.--TR. [48] According to Camper, hectic patients have very white and fair teeth. [49] Derham (in his Physico-Theology, 1750) observes that the deaf hear best under a noise; e. g. one hard of hearing, under the sound of bells; a deaf housewife, under the drumming of the house-servant. Hence when princes and ministers, who for the most part hear badly, are passing through the country, kettle-drums are beat and cannon fired, so that they can hear the people more easily. [50] In whose wall the lady with the souvenir sits. [51] A kind of gray fur.--TR. [52] Baireuth.--TR. [53] This precocious completion of growth I have observed in many distinguished women, just as if these Psyches should resemble butterflies, which do not grow after coming out of the chrysalis state. [54] Cloth is roughened with thistles, i.e. scratched up, in order to the better shearing of it afterwards. [55] A distinguished actor of tragedy. [56] He means here their divorce, which was only deferred by the mutual wish to keep Liana. [57] Poor dinners, just as cat-silver is an inferior metal.--TR.