Anton instantly turned them down.
"Have you got the hood you then wore?
It was lined with red silk, and it became you exquisitely." "My present hood is lined with blue," said Lenore, laughing.

"And only think, the little Countess Lara is to be married next week! She and I were talking of you not long ago; and Eugene, too, has written to us about you.

How enchanting, that you should have become acquainted with my brother! Come this way, Mr.Wohlfart; I must hear how the time has passed with you." She led him into the drawing-room, and made him sit by her on the sofa, looking at him with those smiling eyes, whose light used formerly to make him so happy.

Much in him had changed since then; perhaps another maiden occupied his imagination now; but when he looked upon the mistress of his early youth, the wild, high-spirited girl matured into the noble and graceful woman, all the feelings of the past revived, and he breathed with rapture the perfumed air of the elegant saloon.
"Now that I see you," said Lenore, "it seems to me as if our dancing-lessons had only been yesterday.

That was a pleasant time for me too.