16/21 "My sorrow will be extinguished, the recollections of my childhood be forgotten. Abroad, no terrific figures, as here, will present themselves to me. My father is dead, foreign earth lies upon his coffin!" "But the office--examination!" said the old preacher, "pass that first. Only make this year thy philosophicum." "And in the spring I shall travel," said Otto. His mind was accustomed to a wider sphere of action. |