THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2373, sig. 109-12/18

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38 - 4 - "But your pictures, the children are finished? You give them to the exhibition yourself." Franz was angry. He knew that the friend had been doing everything for some time now, not just among acquaintances and privates. "Wovcn are we living? No tree, no shrub is growing up in the ground at the root. Don't worry about my things. I don't ask for the eureni either. So that ea d c ce de c Stelzhamer did not let lccker and penetrate into the big-grown man: "You think in the innermost as I do, Bertl. I know it." "Where do you want to know?" 'You have told me, you know, you have betrayed yourself.' Now Sauter curiously asked, 'Franz, did he say something to you?' "Nothing he said," replied Stelzhamer, and stayed behind. 'But his face speaks more than his mouth wants to be true.' He said to the advancer, 'You were cffener to us friends before your wedding, Albert. I remember how you didn't let a day pass by in a letter to one of us.» »And what kind of letters!» Sauter added.»I literally copied whole parts of xkgasxhriebaaxuad and opened up »You?« asked Stifter astonished, looked here and stopped again. Sauter crawled in his chest pocket, and he read out a carefully kept note, "How would I have loved and adorned a beloved woman with the beauties that God soc soc unheard of in his world, and who rebelled in art, and then would have