At three o'clock in the afternoon, our friends went to walk beneath the loveliest sky. Everything had been already arranged; Charles proposed to follow to-morrow; Albano not till Monday, after the general return (his tender motives, and the hard ones of others, decided it); and there floated through the whole vaulted blue no cloud but Charles's concern lest the second depositing of the princely corpse might draw his father along as early as to-day,... when he suddenly cried out, with a curse: "There he comes!" He knew him by the tiger-spotted post-team, and still more by the long line of horses tackled on tandem. A purgatorial moment of life! The carriage rattled swiftly down the street; the head horses streamed forth in a longer and quite disorderly train; the people stared. At last the pulling distance became an acre long,—that seemed quite impossible,—when Albano's eagle eye discovered that there was no leather connection between the post-train, and at last, that in fact there was merely a strange churl, with two horses, accidentally riding along before the carriage, and at this moment they saw the open triumphal car, with the female trinity slowly moving up the Blumenbühl heights, and the blended tulip-bed of the three parasols glimmered long after them.
FOOTNOTES:
[163] Basa Metzia, c. 4, m 10.
[164] The head of a bandage is a technical term in surgery.—Tr.
[165] The German word mandel (literally almond) means a collection of fifteen. There being no one word expressing it collectively in English, baker's dozen (which means thirteen) seems to come near enough.—Tr.
[166] See Dr. Franklin's verses, comparing different classes of people to different kinds of paper. Sparks's edition of Franklin's Works, Vol. II. p. 161.—Tr.
[167] It is well known that spring flowers, on account of dampness and shade, are for the most part suspicious; as also the autumnal ones.
[168] Museum of Nymphæ or Chrysalides.—Tr.
[169] In the artistic technical sense.—Tr.