A DIVIDED HEART
[Illustration: Paul Heyse]
A DIVIDED HEART
AND
OTHER STORIES
FROM PAUL HEYSE
_TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH_ With an Introduction BY CONSTANCE STEWART COPELAND
New York: BRENTANO'S CHICAGO PARIS WASHINGTON
Copyright. 1894, BY BRENTANO'S.
* * * BURR PRINTING HOUSE, NEW YORK.
To My Mother
C. S. C.
CONTENTS.
Introduction--Paul Heyse
A Divided Heart
Minka
Rothenburg on the Tauber
INTRODUCTION--PAUL HEYSE
PAUL HEYSE.
INTRODUCTION.
It occasionally happens that a reader expecting to find the customary account of an author's early struggles for bread and knowledge, his bitter disappointments, his late and almost joyless success, is surprised by the record of a singularly fortunate life; of a life which advances easily and naturally from a peaceful and promising childhood to an equally peaceful, famous old age. Goethe's was such a life; and reading it, one feels that sharp encounter with the hardest facts of existence would have lessened his greatness, would have disturbed that perfect serenity of soul which made him philosopher as well as poet, and fostered his fidelity to high ideals of life and art.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse
- 2: Heyse at once began serious literary work
- 3: Heyse worked as his own nature dictated
- 4: Heyse has searched human hearts to the depths
- 5: Tales of nineteenth century people
- 6: My way properly leads down there
- 7: That people wish to enjoy fiction with the heart alone
- 8: But I see this comparison halts a little
- 9: Every day we experienced some new happiness
- 10: But rather a lack of sensitiveness
- 11: Which proved to be my violin case
- 12: And if I sketch chestnut trees by the hour
- 13: And with the calmness of a strong soul
- 14: But I did not touch the violin
- 15: My wife sketched her in many different positions
- 16: In spite of his subdued voice and quiet manner
- 17: She did not hesitate to leave us tete a tete
- 18: Felt pleased or at ease in this forced tete a tete
- 19: Where the boatman sat at the rudder
- 20: Balcony and terrace were empty
- 21: But was otherwise completely dressed
- 22: That we cannot hide from ourselves
- 23: All was already awake and astir
- 24: Finally reaching the isle of Chillon
- 25: I arrived in Vevey about seven o'clock
- 26: But a certain shy reserve never left her
- 27: To the beautiful Countess Lucile of
- 28: As my light open wagon was rolling by the inn
- 29: Did a sword lie between us then
- 30: Mysterious design of the universe
- 31: Eugene shook his head with a peculiar smile
- 32: And with such peculiarly mournful modulation
- 33: And Minka is certainly beautiful
- 34: 'I once asked our parson about it
- 35: The cradle song grew ever softer
- 36: Long eared Minka as the fourth in the family
- 37: But Minka rolled on her back as if crazy
- 38: It chanced that my driver was an elderly man
- 39: ' What might have happened to Minka in the meantime
- 40: Must have been equally unbearable for a sick donkey
- 41: I never believed he would marry Hannah
- 42: Her loose hair streamed after her
- 43: Lame Minka stood before the hut's door
- 44: The wedding pair immediately struck my eyes
- 45: Opened a coupe of the first class
- 46: Scattered about with their ashes and some Russian tobacco
- 47: He offered her the open sketch book
- 48: These are all views from Rothenburg
- 49: Since you have looked through the portfolio
- 50: It is merely because I am pondering a riddle
- 51: Commonplace happiness as in a snail shell
- 52: She threw the glowing cigarette stump out of the window
- 53: You must tell me the proposition you had in mind
- 54: I would arrive in Wuerzburg too late to see my friend
- 55: Climbed into the close hotel omnibus
- 56: You will have a beautiful outlook into the Tauber valley
- 57: And she had wished to see Rothenburg
- 58: Christel opened her eyes when he appeared thus attired
- 59: Your Tauber nixy is a maiden of very good taste
- 60: If I should remain in Rothenburg
- 61: And promptly clambered out after the watchman
- 62: She bade a brief good by to the tower watchman
- 63: When Hans Doppler arrived at his house
- 64: Christel met her with graceful cordiality
- 65: She at once asked if Christel played
- 66: Christel met them in the garden
- 67: He gave two tickets to his patroness
- 68: But what have you imagined as the result
- 69: Sascha fell on her knees before her