This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...from before tbe man who by so long an absence had grown a stranger to her, into the beloved circle of her parents, sister and brothers, and friends. The parents, fully aware of the approaching decisive moment when they would have to share their child with another, did not perhaps receive the stranger with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...from before tbe man who by so long an absence had grown a stranger to her, into the beloved circle of her parents, sister and brothers, and friends. The parents, fully aware of the approaching decisive moment when they would have to share their child with another, did not perhaps receive the stranger with their wonted kindness. The circle of friends, and the brother himself, with the exclusiveness peculiar to that kind of harmonious corporation, actually resisted the intruder, who was pursuing a prize which many a one of the friends may have secretly coveted for himself. And on both sides faults had to be conquered. Hensel at first was dreadfully jealous--jealous of all and everything, parents, sister, brothers, friends and acquaintance, and even of 'Fanny's art. He was a stranger in a circle which, as is often the case, had introduced among its members a variety of allusions and relationships both playful and serious, and in consequence a sort of coterie-slang not intelligible to the uninitiated. In such cases a stranger is intolerant, and feels himself under a constraint; many of the jokes appear to him stupid, he cannot enter into the others' train of ideas. To them again the stranger appears stiff and cold, and they button themselves up against a new unaccustomed element. Many a pointed arrow of wit is thrown at him, which the intruder cannot ward off, because he only feels the edge long after it had hit him. Fanny, on the other hand, was often capricious; she could not at once enter into his strange and grave train of thoughts, and sometimes would only joke. when he was in real earnest. She had walked on the sunny heights of a life ignorant of care, whilst he had struggled hard for existence. Through his innate modesty depreciating his own...
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