She must be colder than ice if she cannot see her power when a conqueror loves her.
The marble had felt the fire, and the ice was in the flame at last.
Nino, with his determination to be loved, had put his statue into a very fiery furnace, and in the young innocence of his heart had prepared such a surprise for his lady as might have turned the head of a hardened woman of the world, let alone an imaginative German girl, with a taste for romance--or without; it matters little.

All Germans are full of imagination, and that is the reason they know so much.

For they not only know all that is known by other people, but also all that they themselves imagine, which nobody else can possibly know.

And if you do not believe this, you had better read the works of one Fichte, a philosopher.
I need not tell you any more about Nino's first appearance.

It was one of those really phenomenal successes that seem to cling to certain people through life.