2 ELECTIVE AFFINITIES. A Novel. TRANSLATED TOO* THE GERMAN OP GOETHE. PART I. V chapter in (Continued.) f- s . For the rest, when Edward and Char lotte were alone, there were fewer mat- ters of private interest between then than formerly. This was especially the case since the fault finding about the grounds, which Edward thought so just, and which he felt to the quick. He held his tongue about what the Captain had said for a longtime; but’at last, when he saw his wife again preparing to 3 go to work above the summer house, with her paths and steps, he could not contain himself any longer, but, after a few circumlocutions, came out with his new views. Charlotte was thoroughly disturbed. She was sensible enough to perceive at once that they were right, bat there was the difficulty with what was already done —and what was made was made. She had liked it: even what was wrong had become dearer to her in its details. She fought against her convictions; she de fended her little creation ; she railed at men who were for ever going to the broad and the great. They could not let a pas time, they could not let an amusement alone, she said, but they must go and make a work out of it, never thinking of the expense which their larger plans in volved. She was provoked, annoyed, an gry. Her old plans she could not give up, the new she would not quite throw from her; but, divided as she was, for the present she put a stop to the work, and. gave herself lime to think the thing over, and let it ripen by itself. At the same lime that she lost this source of active amusement, the others were more and more together over their own business. They took to occupying thcmselyes, moreover, with the flower garden and the hot-house*; and as they filled up the intervals with the ordinary gentlemen’s amusements, hunting, riding, buying, selling, b r eaking horses, and such matters, she was every day left more and more to herself. She devoted herself more assiduously than ever to her corres pondence on account of the Captain ; and yet she had many lonely hours ; so that the information which she now re ceived from the school became more agreeably interesting. » To a long-drawn lelter of the superior of the establishment, filled with the usu al expressions of delight at her daughter’s progress, a brief postcript was attached, With a second from the hand of a gentle men in employment there as an assistant, both of which we here cunminictte. POSTSCRIPT OF THE SUPERIOR a w«u w J'Ull ladyship what I have already stated In my former letter?. ,1 do not know how to find fault with her, yet I cannot say that lam satisfied. She is always unassum- , lag, always ready to oblige others ; but it | ia not to see her so timid, so a>- most servile. “Your-ladyship lately sent her some motley, with several little matters for her malibbe. .The money she has never toasted, the dresses lay unworn in their pise?. She keeps her things;very nice and very clean ; bat-this is all she&eems to care about. Again, I cannot praise her excessive abstemiousness in bating and drinking. There Is no at our table, but there >s like heller than to see children 1 good, wholesome food. WbaVfPHßphl* ly provided aad s;t before be lakeland to ibis I never can suweed in bringing Otdie. She is always leaking herself some occupation or other, always finding s )metbing which she must do, something which the servants have neg lected; to escipe the aeon I course of the dessert j a*id n it hi3to b j considered (which I cannot help connecting with all this) thit she frequently suffers, I have lately learnt, from pain in the left side of her heal. It is only at times, but it is distressing, and may be of importance. So much upm this otherwise sweet and lovely girl.” _ reflection upon himself. Though not nai second postscript, by the assistant, j urA uy digorderly, he could never bring “Our excellent superior commonly per. I himself to arrange hia papers in their mils me to read the letters in which she ; p roper places. What he had to do in con conymanicates her observations upon her j ueCt j on with others, was not kept sepa pupils to then parents and friends. Such rale f rn m what only depended on him of them as are addressed to your ladyship self Business got mixed up with amuse- I ever read with twofold attention and 1 raentj aD d serious work with recreation, pleasure. We have to ongratulate you 1 N()W however, it was easy for him, with upon a daughter who unites in herself i tlie j ielp of a friend, who would take the every brilliant quality with which people trou ble upon himselt; and a second “T’ distinguish themselves in the world ; and j worked nut the separtioa, to which the lat least think you no less fortunate in g lD gi e "I” was always unequal, having had bestowed upon you, in your,; t j ie Captain’s wing, they contrived step-daughter, a child who has been borriJ & depos j lor y f or what concerned the pres for the good and happiness of others, and and an arc hi ve for the past. Here assuredly also for her pwn. Otilie is al- brought all the documents, papers most our only pupil about whom there is noleS from their various hiding pla a difference of opinion between myself, roomg dr awers, and boxes with the and our reverend superior. Ido not com utmosl S p eed Harmony and order were plain of the very natural desire in that I IQlroduced j n tn the wilderness, and the good \ady to see outward and definite d jg- erent packets were marked and regis fruits arising from her labor*. Bi t there i i n their several pigeon-holes. They are also fruits which are not outward, foun(J aII they wan ted in greater com which arc of the true germinal s >rt, and i leteQess evea than they had expected ; which develop themselves sooner or later s jj ere an dd clerk was found of no in a beautiful.life. And this lam certain ser vice. who for the whole day and is the case wiih your protege. So long as . 0 f t jj e night never left his desk, and she has been under my care, I have w ij o!1 j mi then, Edward had been watched her moving with an even step, always djssal i s fied. s'owly steadily forward—never back. As : ,j s i,, )U ],i. not know him again,” he with a child it is necessary to begin every- ; to fr j endj -‘the man is so handy tlcng at the beginning, so it is with her. , lD(i use f u i She can c unprehend nothing which does replied the Ciptaiu, "is be : I!.>.V from whit precedes it; let a thing . g* V e J>sm nothing frtsh.tp.do be as simple and easy »s possible, she can j tj! , h „ finished, at his cos: venience, inuke Homing of it if it ia not in a recog- wiiat has already ; and so, as you per uizable connection; but find the intense • • diate' links, and make them clear to her, and then nothing is too difficult to her. “Progressing with snuh slo w steps, she remains behind "her companions, who, with capacities of quite; a different kind, hurry on and on, learn everything real ly, connected or nnconnecled. recollect i t with ease, and apply it with correctness. And again, some of the lessons here are given by excellent, but somewhat hasty and impatient leachew, who pass from result to result, cutting sh irt the process by which they arrived at ;"and these are not of the slightest service to her; she learns nothing from them. There is a com plaint of her handwriting. They say she will not,for cannot, understand, how to form her letters. I have examined closely into this. It is true she writes, slowly, stiffly, if you like; but the hand is nellh er timid nor without character. The French language is not my department, but I have taught her something of it, in the step-by-step fashion; and this she un derstands easily. Indeed, it is singular that she knows a great deal, and knows it well, too; and yet when she is asked a question, it seems as if she knew noth ing. “To conclude generally, I should say she learns nothing like a person who is being educated, but learns like one who is to educate—not like a pupil, but like a future teacher. Your ladyship may think it strange that I, as an educator and a teacher, can find no higher praise to give to any one ttnin by comparison with my self. I may leave it to your own good sense. - to your deep knowledge of the world and df mankind, to make the best of my inadequate, but well-intended ex pressions. Yon may satisfy yourself that you have happiness to promise yourself from this child. I commend myself to your ladyship, and I beseech you to per mit me to write to yon again as soon as I sae reason to believe that I have anything important or agreeable to communicate.” This lelter gave great pleas ure. The contents coincided very closely with the notions which she had herself conceived of Ottilie. At the same time, she could not help srpillng at the exces sive interest of the assistant, which seem ed greater than the insight into a pupil’s excellence usually calls forth. In her quiet, unprejudiced way of looking, at things, this relation, among others, she was contented to permit to lie before her as a possibility ; she could not value the interest of so sensible a man in having learnt, among the lessons of her I life, to see bow highly true regard is to prized, in a world where indifference or dislike are the cimmoa natural residents.' * - - - - - t ■ ■ r-■ ty and its environs was completed. It was executed on a considerable scale; the character of the particular localities was made intelligible by various colors; and by means of a trigonometrical survey, the Captain bad been able to arrive at a very fair exactness of measure. He had been rapid in bis work. The was scarcely ever any one who could do with less sleep than it*'- ■ v - ' this most laborious rrun ; aid, as.bis day was always voted to an immediate pur pose. every evening something bad been done. .“Let us now,” fie said to his friend, J ‘go on to what remains f»r us, to the statis tics of the estates. We shall have a good deal of work to get through at the ,ning, and afterwards we shall com; to the farm estimates, and much else which will naturally arise out of them. Only we must have one thing distinctly settled and adhered to. Everything which is proper ly business we must keep separated from life. Business requires earnestness and method ; life must have a freerjhandling. Business demands the utmost stringency and sequence ; in life, in consecutive ness is frequently necessary, indeed, is charm ing and graceful. If you are firm in the first, you can afford yourself more liberty in the second ; while if you mix them, you will find the free interfering with and breaking in upon the fixed.” In these sentences Edward felt a slight CHAPTER IV* me RADICAL; I FRlDA*' ■> MAY 9, 1873. ceive.be gets through a .great deal. If you disturb him, be becomes useless at once.” V I Spending their days together In this way, In the evenings they never neglect* e 4 their, regular visits to Charlotte. If there was no pmy from the neghhor hood, as was often the case, they read and principally on subjects connected with the imrovement of the condition and comfort of social life. • Charlotte, -always accustomed to make the most of opportunities, not only saw her husband pleased, but found personal advantages for herself. Domestic arrange ments. which she had long wished to make, but whichshe did not know exact-1 ly how to set about, were managed for her through the contrivance of thefCap tain. Her domestic medicine chest,! hith erto but poorly furnished, was enlarged and enriched, and Charlotte herself, with the help of good books and personal In struction, was put in the way of; being able to exercise heir disposition to be of practical assistance more frequently and more efficiently than before.. In providing against accidents, which, though common, yet only too often find us unprepared, they thought It especially to have on hand whatever is requ ired for the recovery of drowning men—accidents of this kind, from the number of canals, reservoirs, and waterworks in the neigh borhood being of frequent occurrence. This department the Captain’ took ex pressly into his own hands ; and the ob servation escaped El ward, that a case of this kind had made a very singular epoch in the life of his friend. The latter made no reply, but seemed-to be trying to es cape from a painful recollection. Edward immediately stopped; and Charlotte, who, as well as he, had a general knowl edge of the story, took no notice of the expression. I “These preparations areaJl exceedingly valuable,” said the Captain* one evening “ Now, however, We hate net got the one thing which Is most.essentfal—a sensible man who understands how ito manage it all. I know an army surgeon, whom I Could exactly recommend for the-place. You might get him this monmot on.easy terms. He is highly distinguished in his profession, and has frequently done more for me, in the treatmcw even of violent inward disorders, than celebrated physi cians. Help upon the spot, is the thing you often most want in the country. He was written for at once; and Ed ward and Charlotte were rejoiced to have found so good and necessary an object, on which to expend to much of the money which they set, apart for such accidental demands upon them, i ’ Thus Charlotte, 100, founcl means of making use, for her purposes, of the Gap- she began to beqaltereconciled-to his presence, andto feel easy hbout any con sequences which might ensne. She com monly prepared questions-to ask 7 him among other things, it was one ot her an xieties to provide against whatever was prejudicial to health and comfort, against poisons and such like. The lead glazing on ihe chihai 'the foiled abbdi tesskfil had long &oubfeto her, him to tell /her abdntthese, and, natural ly, they often had to* fall back on the first elements of medicine and chemistry. Aa accident, but welcome occasion for entertainment of this kind, was given by an inclination of Edward to read aloud. He had a parliculorly clear, deep voice, and earlier in life had earned himself a pleasant reputation for his feeling and lively recitations of works of poetry and oratory. At this time he was occupied with other subjects, and the books which, for soma time past, he had been reading, were eiher chemical, or on some other branch of natural or technical science. One of his especial curiosities—which, by-the-bye, he very likely shares with a number of his fellow-creatures—was, that he could not bear any one looking over him when he was reading. In early life, when he used to read poems, plays and stories, this bad been the natural conse * rtf” quence of the desire which the reader feels, like r the poet, or the actor, or the story-teller, to make surprises, to pause, to excite expectation ; and this sort of ef feet was naturally defeated when a third person’s eyes could run on before him, and see what was coming. On such occa sions, therefore, ho was accustomed to place himself in such a position that no one could get behind him' With a party of only three, this was unnecessary ; and as with the present subject there was no opportunity for exciting feelings or giv ing the imagination a surprise, he did not take any particular pains to protect him self. One evening he had placed himself carelessly, and Charlotte happened by ac dent to cast her eyes upon tiler pftge His old impatience was ardnsed ; he turned to her, and said, almost unkindly : ; “I do wish, once for all, you would leave off doing a thing so out of taste and so disagreeable. When £ read "'aloud to a person, is it not the same as if 1 was telling him something by word Or mouth? The written, tjj&printed word, is in the place of my’tiwn thoughts, of my own heart. 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