I no longer knew what I shouted to them, but it seemed to me as if I must swim out into the stream and never return.

I swam until it became night before my eyes.

I sank, and Wilhelm rescued me! Never since then have we spoken of this hour! O Rosalie! long is it since I have been able to open my heart as before thee at this moment.

What use is it to have a friend if one cannot lay before him one's whole thoughts?
To no one have I been able to unfold them but to thee, who already knowest them.

I suffer, as a criminal and yet am I innocent,--just as the misshapen, the deformed man, is innocent of his ugliness!" "I do not possess thy knowledge, Otto," said Rosalie, and pressed his hand; "have never rejoiced in such a clear head as thine; but I have that which thou canst not as yet possess--experience.