Ludwig Tieck

“ You have expressed yourself very fervently and sincerely, and many others would find your manner more pleasing than I do; for — come, my dear sir, let's go into the garden! — I have always noticed that we reserve our bitterest denunciations for those failings in others which we ourselves are not entirely free from.
In the garden they met the Baroness and her daughter, accompanied by the young enemy of the truth. The Baron's words had made Kronenberg blush unduly. ”

“ So, as he considered himself an excellent horseman, Kronenberg had a secondary object in mind when he undertook this journey, namely, to reaccustom this beautiful animal to reason and order: he learned, as he trained it, that he too was more absent-minded than he had thought: the worst failing, and the one which ensures that all training, whether by someone of a reasonable or an unreasonable disposition, becomes impossible. ”

“ The young fellow writes verses, makes pretty speeches, is courteous, reads books to her. He falls madly in love with the beautiful rich girl; unperceived, she is infected with the same folly; the parents are dissatisfied, her mother weeps, her father rages. But one can only rage so much, and even the most profusive tears eventually dry up; only love is eternal and inexhaustible. ”

“ The festivities will be all the more resplendent, as her father wishes to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his own wedding on the same day. The entire neighbourhood has already been invited, and as the event is so well known, I could hardly imagine it's news to you. The castle is teeming with guests, so you will probably have to make do with a farm building or a tenant's cottage.
— But in Heaven's name, exclaimed Kronenberg, who on Earth is the young lady marrying? ”

“ He never returns from a stroll without having fabricated something of no particular interest that could possibly have befallen him. He plays thousands of practical jokes on my daughter. We are all so used to it now that no one in the house takes any notice of him anymore; so he has a field day whenever he meets a stranger who is not yet familiar with his ways. ”

“ For once, it seems, I have paid him back in his own coin, he exclaimed; he is determined that no one shall hoodwink him. His father has no intention of coming.
Kronenberg would have felt very ill at ease if the kindness of the beautiful girl and her courteous and obliging manner had not made amends. ”