This Field, As If It Had Been In Germany, Was Not Enclosed With
Hedges, But Every Spot In It Was
Uninterruptedly diversified with
all kinds of crops and growths of different green and yellowish
colours, which gave the whole a
Most pleasing effect; but besides
this large field, the general view of the country, and a thousand
other little circumstances which I cannot now particularly
enumerate, served to bring back to my recollection the years of my
youth.
Here I rested myself a while, and when I was going on again I
thought of the place of my residence, on all my acquaintances, and
not a little on you, my dearest friend, and imagined what you would
think and say, if you were to see your friend thus wandering here
all alone, totally unknown, and in a foreign land. And at that
moment I first seriously felt the idea of distance, and the thought
that I was now in England, so very far from all I loved, or who
loved me, produced in me such sensations as I have not often felt.
It was perhaps the same with you, my dearest friend, when on our
journey to Hamburg we drove from Perlsbeg, to your birthplace, the
village of Boberow; where, among the farmers, you again found your
own playmates, one of whom was now become the bailiff of the place.
On your asking them whether they knew you, one and all of them
answered so heartily, "O, yes, yes - why, your are Master Frederic."
The pedantic school-master, you will remember, was not so frank.
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