ly recognize and bear our part. I have been
in the next village; it must be like a recent settlement in America.

It is a beautiful and great thing to be able to help so many human
beings to a cheerful and active existence.

My son, why do you not write whether you have inquired for Uncle
Alphonso? Do not delay doing so. If he is yet living, tell him that I
have never judged him unkindly, though he has been so hard upon us; and
tell him that your father always preserved a brotherly feeling for him.
But ah, I do not know whether he is still alive. Do not delay to get
some positive information.

Our friend Einsiedel is busy in arranging your father's papers.

Our good Major wants to have a room built in the hot-house, and, next
winter, live there all day long among the plants, breathing in their
fragrance; then, he asserts, he should live to be a hundred years old.

[Claudine to Manna.]

If you feel overwhelmed by the hard experiences which you must bear, do
not forget to keep up your study of astronomy; it takes us out of all
our small troubles.

You will have to make new applications of your astronomical knowledge
to new conditions in America.

[Lina to Manna.]

To-morrow I give my first large coffee-party; look upon me with
respect. I spread fine damask table-cloths, and have my own gilt-edged
cups. Ah, why can you not be here? People say that my voice is much
stronger now that I am a mother. O Manna, the most beautiful song is
that which one sings to her child. I hope it won't be long before you
know it.

Pranken and his wife have come back, but they are not to remain with
us. He is to be ambassador somewhere on the Lower Danube, near Turkey;
I don't know the name of the country.

I have thought of a beautiful plan for you. When you come home, you
must establish a special singing-club of all the matrons and maidens
in the neighborhood, and we'll sing in your garden, and in the
beautiful music-room, and in the pretty boats on the river, and on the
flat-roofs, and everywhere. Ah, that will be life! If to-morrow were
only here!

[Einsiedel to Eric.]

Elevating thoughts are in these papers which your father left behind
him. It is much to be regretted that one of them has not been given to
the world before this. He foresaw this war in America quite clearly.
Connected and logical thought is a kind of prophecy. I shall publi