[36] It used to be believed that a ruby gave pleasant dreams.
[37] Arnold's Ecclesiastical History of Prussia, Vol. I.
FOURTH JUBILEE.
High Style of Love.—The Gotha Pocket-Almanac.—Dreams on the Tower.—The Sacrament and the Thunder-Storm.—The Night-Journey into Elysium.—New Actors and Stages, and the Ultimatum of the School-Years.
21. CYCLE.
How many blessed Adams of sixteen and a half years will be at this moment enjoying their siesta in the grass of Paradise, and seeing their future bosom-companion created out of the materials of their own hearts! But they seek her not, like the first Adam, close beside them on the building-spot, but at a good distance from their own couch, because distance of space lends as much enchantment to the view as distance of time. Accordingly, every youth seats himself in the mail-coach with the full persuasion that in the cities for which he is booked quite different and more divine Madonnas stand at the doors of the houses than in his cursèd one; and the young men of those cities, again, on their part, take passage in the arriving stage-coach, and go riding hopefully into his.