7/11 Yet wherefore speak of it? Do not fill thy heart with sorrow from a time which is past, and which, for thy sake, shall be forgotten." "But Heinrich still lives!" said Otto; "I have met with him, have spoken with him: it was as if all presence of mind forsook me." "When and where ?" asked Rosalie. "I tore myself from my friends, I wandered the whole night alone in the wood. O Rosalie, I thought of death! I thought of death as no Christian ought to do. A beautiful morning followed, I wandered beside the sea which I love, and in which I have so often dived. |