[5] A sort of buffoon.
[PART THE SECOND.]
WHATEVER ONE WISHES IN YOUTH: IN AGE ONE HAS ABUNDANCE.
SIXTH BOOK.
Illness and Recovery—Leipzig
Thus was I driven alternately to assist and to retard my recovery, and a certain secret chagrin was now added to my other sensations; for I plainly perceived that I was watched,—that they were loth to hand me any sealed paper without taking notice what effect it produced—whether I kept it secret—whether I laid it down open, and the like. I therefore conjectured that Pylades, or one of the cousins, or even Gretchen herself, might have attempted to write to me, either to give or to obtain information. In addition to my sorrow, I was now for the first time thoroughly cross, and had again fresh opportunities to exercise my conjectures, and to mislead myself into the strangest combinations.