“Who called to thee?”
“I know not: in my heart, in my head, I was terrified; I trembled, I prayed; then it called, and I understood it.”
Wilhelm pressed her to his heart, recommended Felix to her, and retired. He had not observed till then that she was grown much paler and thinner than when he left her. Madam Melina was the first acquaintance he met: she received him in the friendliest manner. “Oh that you might find every thing among us as you wished!” exclaimed she.
“I doubt it,” answered Wilhelm: “I do not expect it. Confess that they have taken all their measures to dispense with me.”
“Why would you go away?” replied his friend.
“We cannot soon enough convince ourselves,” said he, “how very simply we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we conceive ourselv
