Let us go home!" "Home!" repeated Caspar, with a melancholy smile.

"Ah! Karl, I wish you had not spoken the word.

So sweet at other times, it now rings in my ears like some unearthly echo.

Home, indeed! Alas, dear brother! we shall ne'er go home." To this pathetic speech Karl made no reply.

He could offer no word of hope or consolation; and therefore remained silent.