nd the little girl----

"It seems hard, hard indeed, that I must part with my life while I am
still so young, but it is best it should be so. The Doctor will see
that my body is not sent to the students at Freiburg. Greet him, and
all his family, in the kindest manner from me. He has long seen that I
was declining in health and happiness, but it was beyond the power of
any doctor to cure me. Say farewell from me to all my good comrades,
particularly to Faller, and the Schoolmaster. I fancy I have still much
to say, but my eyes are dim and dizzy. My beloved friend and brother,
good night! Farewell, for ever!

"Your faithful

"LENZ."

He folded up the letter, and wrote on the back "To my much loved
brother, Pilgrim."

Day was dawning. He extinguished the light, and still holding the
letter in his hand, Lenz looked out of the window, as his last greeting
to the wide world outside. The sun is rising over the hill; first a
pale yellow line, then a dark cloud stretches itself along, contrasting
with the clear, deep blue sky; the whole plain, covered with snow,
trembles in the pale, flickering light; a bright red glow steals
over the surface of the cloud, but the centre remains dark; when
suddenly--the cloud is rent asunder, in bright yellow shreds, the whole
sky is golden, till it gradually catches a rosy hue, and then all at
once the whole extent of the heavens becomes a mass of brilliant,
glittering crimson; this is the world--the world of light, of bright
existence; it will be seen but once more, before you leave it for ever!

Lenz concealed the letter, and went out round the house; he plunged
almost up to his knees in snow. He returned into the sitting room.
Annele had not yet risen, he therefore breakfasted alone with his
children; and when the bells began to ring, he desired the maid to take
Wilhelm to Pilgrim's. He first thought of giving the maid his letter
with her, but he took it again out of her hand and put it in the girl's
frock. When they undressed her at night, they would find it, and by
that time all would be over.

"Go to Pilgrim," said he to the maid again, "and wait in his house till
I come; and, if I don't come, stay there till night." He kissed the
boy, and then turned away, and laid his head on the table. He remained
thus a long time. Nothing stirred in the house. The bells in the valley
below were sounding for ch