I will also repeat for your amusement a droll saying of General
Wrangel's: "A man should never vex himself; - if there must be
vexation anywhere, let him rather vex somebody else!" - The best
way, in case of extreme necessity to vex others, is to bear
imperturbably many an injury and unpleasantness - without
prejudice to any defense or help that may offer, when opportunity
occurs - for we were not born to sleep our lives away! -
Under the given circumstances one cannot do otherwise than agree
with your resolution to let your son go into the Military Academy
when he is eleven years old. May this young Franz bring you all
the happiness that your older Franziskus wishes you from his
innermost heart. - [He did not become a soldier, but the renowned
Professor of Law now teaching at the University of Halle.]
In the expectation of this we will comfort ourselves by
swallowing Pfefferoni and Paprika together with Gumpoldskirchner.
Have I ever told you how excellent the latter, which you had
chosen just right, tasted?
It is almost impossible to further B.'s affairs. You think it
would be right to let his drama be examined by a "competent
authority." Undoubtedly; but that will not help him, so long as
this competent authority, who here could be none other than
Dingelstedt, is not able to help him any further.
