See how this will do:-- "Music the truest pleasure gives; So sing we merrily-- 'Our Fatherland shall ever live, And Freedom never die.'" Feklitus was pacified; which was fortunate, for nothing would have induced him to give up his verse, whose great merit in his eyes was just that it was _his_; he had remembered it, repeated it, proposed it; so it was naturally better than any other could be.

The meeting was informed of the compromise, applauded it, and immediately adjourned, dispersing in all directions, and making the quiet summer evening resound with their merry shouts.

Oscar alone went his way with an air of deep depression, and with anger in his heart.

Fani had again disappeared directly after school, as he had often done before, and had not waited for the meeting, though he knew how much Oscar cared to have him there.
Fani certainly took everything too lightly, Oscar thought; it was his only great fault; he went too easily from one thing to another; and Oscar knew too who aided him in this changeableness, and had indeed just the same failing herself; and that was his own sister Emma.

Indeed, the girl was the worse of the two, for she was continually proposing new schemes, and urging Fani to help her carry them out.