After A Long Journey, With Our Eyes
Directed To Some Particular Spot, To Arrive And Find Nothing As It
Should Be Is Vexatious, And Sinks The Agitated Spirits.
But I, who
received the cruellest of disappointments last spring in returning
to my home, term such as these emphatically passing cares.
Know you
of what materials some hearts are made? I play the child, and weep
at the recollection - for the grief is still fresh that stunned as
well as wounded me - yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew
the cheeks of infantine innocence - and why should they mine, that
never was stained by a blush of guilt? Innocent and credulous as a
child, why have I not the same happy thoughtlessness? Adieu!
LETTER XXIII.
I might have spared myself the disagreeable feelings I experienced
the first night of my arrival at Hamburg, leaving the open air to be
shut up in noise and dirt, had I gone immediately to Altona, where a
lodging had been prepared for me by a gentleman from whom I received
many civilities during my journey. I wished to have travelled in
company with him from Copenhagen, because I found him intelligent
and friendly, but business obliged him to hurry forward, and I wrote
to him on the subject of accommodations as soon as I was informed of
the difficulties I might have to encounter to house myself and brat.
It is but a short and pleasant walk from Hamburg to Altona, under
the shade of several rows of trees, and this walk is the more
agreeable after quitting the rough pavement of either place.
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