7-8.] In himself, also, there was a turmoil of thoughts and emotions which, apart from depressing surroundings, was sufficient to occasion alternating moods of exaltation and despair.

The upbraiding memory of Friederike pursued him, and we may take it that in his Autobiography he faithfully records his continued self-reproach for his abrupt desertion of her.

"Friederike's reply to a written adieu lacerated my heart.

It was the same hand, the same mind, the same feeling that had been educed in her to me and through me.

For the first time I now realised the loss she suffered, and saw no way of redressing or even of alleviating it.