I have never seen any one seek flowers in the field and forest so eagerly, and she made them into beautiful bouquets, which Louis Gallait called "bewitching flower madrigals." Moritz Hartmann had not fully recovered from the severe illness which nearly caused his death while he was a reporter in the Crimean War.

His father-in-law, Herr Rodiger, accompanied him and watched him with the most touching solicitude.

My mother soon became sincerely attached to the author, who possessed every quality to win a woman's heart.

He had been considered the handsomest member of the Frankfort Parliament, and no one could have helped gazing with pleasure at the faultless symmetry of his features.

He also possessed an unusually musical voice.