Excerpt from Die Familie Buchholz: Aus dem Leben Hauptstadt
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First published 1884, translated into English by L. Dora Schmitz 1885, published by Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) 1886.
Delightful. It lets you into a world. A little long.
"What feelings a mother's heart cherishes, when gathering flowers on the morning of the day which will probably decide her child's future, it is impossible to describe..."
"The doctor shall suffer for all this. I only wish I were his mother-in-law already!"
"Wilhelmine, act cunningly, for no doctor with a sense of duty and a conscience could be so wicked as to forsake a suffering creature, when only a short time before he enjoyed an abundance of roast veal and was extremely well pleased with the wine he got."
"'Rage away at them, Mina, till you feel better,' said my sweet-tempered Carl. Oh, where is there a husband as tender in his feelings as my Carl?"