Ludwig Tieck

“ The youth found no difficulty in becoming a regular and happy man; in the arms of his wife and the circle of his children, he reflected on his wild youth only as a feverish dream. Eulenböck had left the city with the prince, and with him the titular Librarian, who obtained that place of secretary to the prince which Edward had applied for, and some years after married the easy fair one who had caused our young friend such an ill name in his native town, and had almost become the occasion of his ruin. ”

“ In Erich's house all those pictures were hung in the best light, and it would be fruitless to attempt a description of the father's astonishment, joy, and rapture. The pictures were, he asserted, far more beautiful than he had seen them in his recollection.
— You say my daughter's admirer is young, well-bred, and of good condition; you give me your word, that he will be a steady man, and never alienate these pictures again after my death? ”

“ If all this be so, he needs possess no other fortune than these pictures, for he is superabundantly rich. But where is he?
A side-door opened, and Edward stepped in, in a dress nearly the same as that of his likeness, the shepherd, in the old picture of Quintin Messys.
— He? cried Walther: whence have you the pictures?
When Edward had related the singular occurrence, the old man took the hand of his daughter, and laid it in that of the youth, saying:
— Sophia ventures much, but she does it out of love to her father ”