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380 FRAU RATH.
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rid delig of ht the in the French love soldiers of her cliildren and at . the In end the following of the war * year ( 1763 they ) the got
councillor began to brighten , up and to assume a more amiable mood . The whole town celebrated the peace with fireworks and
festivities . Rockets and fireworks of all sorts were sent up from gardens The Councillor and vin Goethe eyards , and while his a famil merry took crowd part enlivened in these rej the oicings scene , .
and one evening the general attention y was attracted by a number of will-o' -the-wisps , which in the far distance performed a wonderful
dance . All stood and gazed and puzzled their brains at the they self peculiar , with approached appearance a number nearer of young these and nearer companions fiery , till sparks peop , who le _exhibited had beheld fastened ; Goethe at lig length hts him on
their caps , and in youthful exuberance exhibited this wonderful performance . Meanwhile the time arrived when Goethe was to leave his home to
felt stud it y all in Lei the psic more . keenl It was as a the sad irritation parting for of her Frau daug Hath hter , and against she y
a father , who in his usual pedantic way interfered with all her little self refuge pleasures elevated in , the nearl her Bible y grew soul , which expanded into she hatred would and . From op her en hopes this at random calamit revived and y she . feel Her soug her in ht - -
herent love of , peace and order , was a great support to her , and became manifest in many of her ways and dealings in daily life . Thus in hiring servants , she was wont to say to them : " You must
never tell me of anything disagreeable or annoying , whether it may things occur in my If it own concern house me or closel elsewhere yI shall . I be do sure not like to learn to hear it in of amp such le
. , if time there ; and be if a it fire does in not the concern street me in , which I care the I live less to I do know not of wish it . Even to be
made aware of it sooner than necessary . " So it , happened that when Goethe labored under a severe illness in Leipsicnone of her friends told
her of it till he began to mend . Still delicate , in health , and in a morbid state of mindGoethe came home after an absence of three
years . His father was , dissatisfied with him . According to his viewsand the career he had sketched for his son , the youth had
spent , his time in idle pleasures and desultory studies , which would lead to no resultas for the silent progressive development , which
_^ was hose preparing he had hitherto the ; poet experienced ' s mind for the future councillor strugg like les most greater fathers than ,
_? _iould not perceive it . His behaviour , to his son , was cold and _measured , sometimes even cruel ; but mother and sister , alarmed and
touched by the pale and sunken face of the youth , nursed him with left indefati Nearl for gable y Strasburg two care years and to had renew tenderness passed his . when studies Go and ethe also , now the full merry y recovered life he ,
had led in Leipsic . However he took his degree , and when he next
returned home , met with a more cordial reception from his father .
380 Frau Rath.
380 FRAU RATH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/20/
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