The latter knew only too well what had not yet reached the ears of Eberbach in Vienna.

The marvellous child, whose precocious learning he had just extolled as a noble gift of Providence to the father, was no longer among the living.

Her bright eyes had closed ere she reached maidenhood.
Dr.Eberbach, in painful embarrassment, tried to apologize for his heedlessness, but the Augsburg city clerk, with a friendly gesture, endeavoured to soothe his young fellow-scholar.
"It brought the true nature of happiness very vividly before all our eyes," he remarked with a faint sigh.

"In itself it is not lasting.

A second piece of good fortune is needed to maintain the first.