[22] _Veimer_,--old Westphalian judges. [23] Tellers in faro-banks. [24] The inventor of the balloon.--TR. [25] Reflexions Critiques sur la Poesie, etc. de Dubois, Tom. I. Sect. 42. [26] Sueton. Nero. SECOND JUBILEE. THE TWO BIOGRAPHICAL COURTS.--THE HERDSMAN'S HUT.--THE FLYING.--THE SALE OF HAIR.--THE DANGEROUS BIRD-POLE.--A STORM LOCKED UP IN A COACH.--LOW MOUNTAIN-MUSIC.--THE LOVING CHILD.--MR. VON FALTERLE FROM VIENNA.--THE TORTURE-SOUPÉ.--THE SHATTERED HEART.--WERTHER WITHOUT BEARD, BUT WITH A SHOT.--THE RECONCILIATION. 10. CYCLE. In the bloom of youthful powers, and the brightness of youthful prospects, the Count, between his two companions, flew back through the full, glowing Milan, where the ear and the cluster and the olive often ripen together on the same clod of earth. The very name of Milan (Mayland) opened to him a whole spring, because, like myself, in all things which belong to May--in May-flowers, May-chafers, even May butter--he found, when a child, as much enchantment as in childhood itself. Add to this, that he was on horseback; the saddle was with him a princely seat of the blest, while a saddle-room was a Ratisbon bench of counts, and every nag his Pegasus. While on the island, and during that mental and bodily exhaustion in which the soul loves better to frequent clare-obscure and pastoral worlds, than hot, dusty military- and fencing-schools, all anticipation of the coming riddles and conflicts of his life had been repulsive to him; but now, with his heart full of the glow of travel and the blood of spring, he stretched out his young arms no less for a foe than for a female friend, as if thirsting for a double conquest. The farther the island receded, so much the more did the magic-smoke around the nocturnal apparition sink to the ground, and leave behind in full view merely an inexplicable juggler. Now for the first time he revealed the ghost-story to his companions. Schoppe and Augusti shook their heads thoughtfully, but each thought of something different;--the Librarian sought a _physical_ solution of the acoustic and optical illusion; the Lector sought a _political_ one: he could not at all comprehend what the stage-manager of this grave-digger's scene specially meant by it all.