. Also, you showed a great love for the
daylight, which, by my advice, you were not kept away from. Because,
according to the most recent medical opinions, daylight is far from
having a bad effect on babies, but rather is beneficial to their bodies
and their minds. Your papa was so pleased that he hopped about the room
on one leg, singing

'The manly heart with love o'erflowing,'

from Mozart's 'Flauto Magico.'

"Presently he handed your little person over to me, and asked me to
draw your horoscope, which I did. Afterwards I often came to your
father's house, and you didn't disdain to suck at the little bags of
almonds and raisins which I used to bring you. Then, when you were
about six or eight, I went away on my peregrinations. When I got back
to Berlin I saw with satisfaction that your father had sent you here
from Muenchberg to study the noble art of painting; because there is not
a very large collection in Muenchberg of works adapted for fundamental
study, either in the shape of pictures, statues, bronzes, gems, or
other art-treasures of value. That good native town of yours can
scarcely vie with Rome, Florence, or Dresden in that respect; or
perhaps even with what Berlin will one day become, when bran-new
antiques, fished out of the Tiber, have been brought to it in some
considerable quantity."

"Heavens!" Edmund cried, "the most vivid remembrances out of my
childhood are awaking themselves in my mind. You are Herr Leonhard, are
you not?"

"Certainly!" Leonhard answered. "Leonhard is my name. Yet I am a little
astonished that you should remember me all this long time."

"I do, though," Edmund answered. "I know that I was always glad when
you came to my father's, because you always brought me such delicious
things to eat, and petted me. But I always felt a sort of reverential
awe for you; in fact, more than that--a kind of oppressive anxiousness,
which often lasted after you were gone. But what makes the remembrance
of you remain so vividly in my mind is what my father used to say about
you. He set great store by your friendship, because you had got him out
of a number of troubles in the most wonderful way--out of some of those
difficulties which come upon people in this world so often. And he used
to speak in the most enthusiastic way about the extent to which you had
penetrated into deep and mysterious branches of science; how you
controlled many of the secret powers of Nature at your will. Not