Ludwig Tieck

“ Where else would she be? continued the Countess. But let's wait until you are better. The poor girl has suffered endless grief. How strange, how painful, the manner in which we have been obliged to become acquainted.
Through more frequent visits, from both the physician and the members of the family, the patient was finally able to put two and two together and come to the conclusion that they had mistaken him for a certain Baron Feldheim, whom they had been expecting that same day. ”

“ Necessity is a strict teacher and we rarely admit to ourselves how unconditionally we must follow her, as she does not listen to objections and brooks no delays. If the patriots had yielded to despair, as someone caught in a storm might, they might have quickly thrown overboard, along with their lives, all their remaining goods ”

“ Ah, what a poor, wretched man I am! How vain I have been all my life! Can not repentance and a firm will put everything to rights again? Yes, I feel new strength awakening within me; perhaps I have not yet forfeited all hope of salvation.
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Notes
↑ Napoleon Bonaparte declared France an Empire on 18 May 1804 and crowned himself Emperor at Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December. The following September, in the War of the Third Coalition, Napoleon's forces invaded southern Germany in order to engage and neutralize the Austrians under General Mack before the Russians could enter the war. ”