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THE EIGHTEENTH OF MARCH.
THE 17th passed so quietly that hopes of a peaceable outcome of the fateful conflict began to awake.

My own recollections confirm this.
People believed so positively that the difficulty would be adjusted, that in the forenoon of the 18th my mother sent my eldest sister Martha to her drawing-lesson, which was given at General Baeyer's, in the Friedrichstrasse.
Ludo and I went to school, and when it was over the many joyful faces in the street confirmed what we had heard during the school hours.
The king had granted the Constitution and the "freedom of the press." Crowds were collected in front of the placards which announced this fact, but there was no need to force our way through; their contents were read aloud at every corner and fountain.
One passer-by repeated it to another, and friend shouted to friend across the street.

"Have you heard the news ?" was the almost invariable question when people accosted one another, and at least one "Thank God!" was contained in every conversation.

Two or three older acquaintances whom we met charged us, in all haste, to tell our mother; but she had heard it already, and her joy was so great that she forgot to scold us for staying away so long.