I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foo...

Are you not thinking of getting back to the surface of our beautiful earth?" This was said more as a feeler than with any hope of success. "Go back, n...

We are all unhappy; but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter? I now say, Thank God she did not live t...

I stretched out my hand to him and cried, “Are you then safe—and Elizabeth—and Ernest?” My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endea...

My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror. Take possession of your tenement and let me fly from this place.’ “Felix trembled violentl...

And never had this delicious beverage been so welcome and refreshing. My uncle had sufficient regard for my state of health not to interrupt me in the...

It was with the greatest difficulty that I succeeded in doing so. Hamburg, the house on the Konigstrasse, my dear cousin Gretchen--all that world whic...

But at last the time came when my limbs refused to carry me longer. I contended heroically against the terrible tortures I endured, because I did not ...