[24. DOG-POST-DAY.]
Rouge.—Clotilda's Sickness.—The Play of Iphigenia.—Difference between Plebeian and Patrician Love.—Sixth Intercalary Day.
HESPERUS,
OR
45 DOG-POST-DAYS.
[1. DOG-POST-DAY.]
Difference between the 1st and 4th of May.—Rat-Battle-Pieces.— Nocturne.—Three Regiments in future Breeches.—Couching-Needle.— Overture and Secret Instructions of the Book.
In the house of the Court-Chaplain Eymann, in the bathing-village of St. Luna, there were two parties: the one was glad on the 30th of April that our hero, the young Englishman, Horion, would return from Göttingen the 1st of May to stay at the parsonage,—the other disliked it; they did not want him to arrive till the 4th of May.
The party of the 1st of May, or Tuesday, consisted of the Chaplain's son, Flamin, who had been educated with the Englishman till his twelfth year in London, and till his eighteenth in St. Luna, and whose heart with all its venous ramifications had grown into the Briton's, and in whose ardent breast during the long Göttingen separation there had been one heart too few; next, of the Chaplain's wife, a native Englishwoman, who loved in my hero a countryman, because the magnetic vortex of nationality reached her soul over land and sea; and, finally, of their eldest daughter, Agatha, who all day long laughed out at everything and doted on everything without knowing why, and who, with her polypus-arms, drew every one to herself who did not live quite too many houses off from her, as food for her heart.