Pardon me! In these times everything thought and said is transformed into solemn earnest.

Mars is here, and the cheerful Muses are silent.

Remember me to your husband, and tell him, that Captain Allertssohn's body has been brought in and to-morrow is appointed for the funeral." The nobleman took his leave, and Maria, after visiting her patient and finding her well and bright, sent Adrian and Bessie into the garden outside the city-wall to gather flowers and foliage, which she intended to help them weave into wreaths for the coffin of the brave soldier.

She herself went to the captain's widow..