All at home speak of thee; even the Kammerjunker's Mamsell chose lately thee, and not her work-box, as a subject of conversation.
The evening as thou drovest over the Jutland heaths I seated myself at the piano, and played thy whole journey to my sisters.

The journey over the heath I gave them in a monotonous piece, composed of three tones, quite dissimilar to that composed by Rousseau.

My sisters were near despair; but I told them it was not more uninteresting than the heath.
Sometimes I made a little flight, a quaver; that was the heath-larks which flew up into the air.

The introduction to the gypsy-chorus in 'Preciosa' signified the German gypsy-flock.

Then came the thema out of 'Jeannot and Collin'-- 'O, joyous days of childhood!'-- and then thou wast at home.