Leonhard was older than I, and when he graduated with honor, I was still very weak in the pandects.

But we were always one in heart and soul, so I went to Holland with him to attend his wedding.

Ah, those were days! The theologians in Jena have actively disputed about the part of the earth, in which the little garden of Paradise should be sought.

I considered them all fools, and thought: 'There is only one Eden, and that lies in Holland, and the fairest roses the dew waked on the first sunny morning, bloom in Delft!'" At these words Georg shook back his waving locks and hesitated in great embarrassment, but as no one interrupted him and he saw Barbara's eager face and the children's glowing cheeks, quietly continued: "So I came home, and was to learn for the first time, that in life also beautiful sunny days often end with storms.

I found my father ill, and a few days after my return he closed his eyes in death.