[120] At the canonization of a saint, the _Devil_ was heard by
_attorney_, in the shape of objections to the act. Jean Paul,
with a slight variation of the sense of the old title, hints a
converse process in Roquairol's case, making the better angel
show cause why sentence of _damnation_ should not be absolutely
pronounced against him.--TR.
[121] Here began Jean Paul's second volume of the Titan.--TR.
[122] Ottar of Roses.--TR.
[123] The above description of Roquairol reminds one of a German
_Sinn-spruch_ on sensuality, from the Persian:--
"Make his reason serve his passions,
That is what man never should;
_To the Devil's kitchen, angels_
_Never carry wood_."
[124] Simon's Christian Antiquities. Mursinna, &c., p. 143.
[125] Branch candlestick.--TR.
[126] Schlendrians,--of a slow fellow,--corresponding to our _old
fogy_.--TR.
[127] Or Black-book.--TR.
[128] Allusion to the mode of angling for frogs with a bit of red
cloth.
[129] Spazier-sitzerinnen,--not _gängerinnen_, i. e.
street-walkers.--TR.
[130] _Zwinger_ means, originally, the narrow space between
town-walls and town.--TR.
[131] Literally, press something before his brow.--TR.
[132] Overseer, a Lacedæmonian officer.--TR.
[133] Strangers who are frozen are placed by the monks, unburied,
beside each other, each leaning on the next one's breast.
[134] Linda de Romeiro.
ELEVENTH JUBILEE.
EMBROIDERY.--ANGLAISE.--CEREUS SERPENS.--MUSICAL FANTASIES.
56. CYCLE.
Joyfully did Roquairol, on the first evening when he knew his father had
gone a journey, bear to his friend the invitation to go with him to his
mother. Albano blushed charmingly for the first time, at the thought of
that fiery night which had wrung from him the oldest mystery; for
hitherto neither of them, in the common hours of life, had retouched the
sacred subject. Only the Captain could easily and willingly speak of
Linda as well as of every other loss.
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