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Letters Of Rahel, 3 Vols. 8vo, 1834; And...
husband was appointed Prussian Consul and afterwards Resident-Minister . Being" recalled in 1819 she returned with him to Berlin ?
, and lived in some retirement for two years , after which time , and for several years in successionshe made short jonrnies to Toeplitz _?
, and elsewhere , for the recovery of her health . "In 1831 , when Berlin was visited by the cholera , Kahel once
more during appeared 1 the strugg in le all for her freedom greatness , so and did benevolence she now associate ; as once her before self
with the unwearied in well doing . This however was her last public effort . Various attacks of illness henceforth seriously
impaired her fragile frame , within which the mind actively existed , but received no aid from its comradeand her health became the
, object of much anxiety . Those around her still believed a complete recovery to be possible ; she too listened to the pleasing hope
and gladly availed herself of any intervals of relief , that she might forget her past pain ; her cheerfulnesskindness , and zeal , making ;
their at favorable turn , awakened fresh confidence . If onl appearance y one human every being claimed her attention , , that being excited
her liveliest sympathy ; or when any occupation was set before her _^ no matter how trifling * a right channel was opened . She showed
her good will even where , scarce asked , or where a claim was unperceived by others ; overflowing love thus concealing' the advance
of decay . The agitation of the times , the inquietude which threatened us or was indeed at handthe appalling sickness from
, the East , the fears by which its approach was heralded , the cares and troubles which its advent imposed , and finally the separation
from her dear brother Louis , ( who was about to reside at a distance , ) exhausted Rahel afresh and made her exert herself far beyond her
powers . The winter as usual brought many ailments with it , circumscribing the activity whichrather for the sake of others than
her own , she still exercised in regard , to events around her . She went out less frequently , no longer visited the theatre , called on .
her friends only on particular occasions , and for the last time morning appeared after in the having park 1 passed in Januar a sad ni y g to ht enj she oy said the to fresh me impressivel air . One y :
, * I am content ; I am the creature of God , who knows all about me ; I see how necessary it was for me to suffer , and I must certainly learn
from such insight : every sorrow shall turn to joy , every grief shall be and a find glory ? . Am I still I not allowed happy myself in thi to s trust hope and from in the the happ love iness I possess she
, enjoyed one evening when our dear sister-in-law , Ernestine Robert , to her some of her beautiful airs , with a voice full of soul ,
not sung anticipating this was to be the last joy of its kind ever tasted hy our impassioned musical Kahel , who knew too well that there
could be no change for the better in her malady . " In her youthas well as in her more advanced years , in health ,
, as well as disease , propositions of the highest kind , the facts of the
spiritual world , the perceptions and anticipations of a more elevated
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/24/
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