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CHARLES AUCHESTER
Volume II.
MENDELSSOHNFROM A SKETCH MADE IN HIS YOUTH.
Charles Auchester
BY
ELIZABETH SHEPPARD
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
By GEORGE P. UPTON
AUTHOR OF "THE STANDARD OPERAS," "STANDARD ORATORIOS," "STANDARDCANTATAS," "STANDARD SYMPHONIES," "WOMAN IN MUSIC," ETC.
In Two Volumes
Volume II.
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG AND COMPANY
1891
Copyright,
By A. C. McClurg and Co.
a.d. 1891.
CHARLES AUCHESTER.
CHAPTER I.
Well, as if but yesterday, do I remember themorning I set out from Lorbeerstadt for Cecilia.I had no friends yet with whom to reconnoitrenovel ground; I was quite solitary in my intentions,and rather troubled with a vague melancholy, the sunbeing under cloud, and I not having wished Aronachgood-day. He was out in the town fulfilling the dutiesof his scholastic pre-eminence, and I had vainly soughthim for an audience. He had surrendered me myviolin when he gave me the paper in his writing, and Ialso carried my certificate in my hand. Of all my personaleffects I took these only,—my bed and bedding,my clothes and books having preceded me; or, at least,having taken another form of flight. Iskar was to comealso that time, but did not intend to present himselfuntil the evening. Aronach had also forewarned me totake a coach, but I rather chose to walk, having divinereminiscences upon that earthly road.
With Starwood I had a grievous parting, not unallayedby hope on my part, and I left him wiping his eyes,—anattention which deeply affected me, though I did notcry myself.
I shall never forget the singularly material aspect ofthings when I arrived. Conventionalism is not so rampant4in Germany as in England, and courtesy is taughtanother creed. I think it would be impossible to beanywhere more free, and yet this sudden liberty (like asudden light) did but at first serve to dazzle and distressme. Only half the students had returned, andthey, all knowing each other, or seeming to do so, werestanding in self-interested fraternities, broken by groupsand greeters, in one immense hall, or what appeared tome immense, and