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

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48 - 14 - and they came apart, - he after. Vienna and they returned to the parents' home in Friedberg - began the hardships and torments. Dark flames hit up in his sc frequent and glowing letters and made it only less possible for the girl to respond to it and to respond. They had not been under their eyes for a long time. Schcn had his hunger for vision and - if he was honest - even after rest on that winter night connected him with Amalie Mchaupt and now pulled the band around both quickly and painfully violently. Then he saw himself standing in Christianberg in the small Kirehe, and a few benches further kneeled, which he thought he shneeded in his soul. Vcrne at the altar saw friend Schiffler and Maria Blechinger their marriage and did not know that behind them the stinging flame hit through a man's heart, because the spark of true love was never lost and now found new food at first sight. But the uncanny fire, which never wanted to be extinguished, was never satisfied either, because it consumed itself in hopefulness.Stifter's gaze for the Wirkliehe told him that again and again, even if the inner voices calmed him down and deceived him.At that time that letter was written to the »love, dear friend«.At the time he waited days and weeks. He wandered through the dark forests of his Bohemian homeland waiting and wondered for himself that he would find his way home in the evening.Jünd kls he came to Vienna, he hung on to his friends, was the funniest one, read Jean Paul and scolded himself to be a new foolish vision.Then came Amalie. And he was able to recover the new, ach sc other love of the humble cleaning woman like a sleeper drink. Scald he woke up again - as today - he saw himself walking over the abyss If he had known that the girl from Friedberg was really finished with him -. Why, then, had she not broken everything that reminded us of the former cheerful circle of friends? Then why did she quickly and contemplatively decide for her mother's candidacy, a small official, the Secretary of Camera Fleischanderl in the Cberësterreichische Ried?