23-4. {=wie wäre es?=} (condit. subj.), for condit. {würde es sein?}
(how would it be?), _how would it do?_ or _what do you think of ...?_
23-5. {=erzählte=} (subj. impf.) = {erzählen würde}.
23-6. {=es wird nicht viel werden mit dem Schlaf heute Nacht=}
(colloq. phrase), _sleep is hardly to amount to anything to-night_.
23-7. {trotz Ihres =hohen Bettes=}--to spare room, in the Alpine huts
the _beds_ are found _high up_ on the wall, near the ceiling of the
room, resting on pegs driven into the wall.
23-8. {=mein Fräulein=}--directed to Elsa.
23-9. {=das wäre schön=}, cf. Note 4, above.
23-10. {Fräuleins} (pl. for {Fräulein}), comp. {Kerls} for {Kerle},
Page 16, Note 1.
=Page 24.=--24-1. {=wes=} (obsol. genit. for {welches}) {=Zeichens und
Standes=} (colloq. phrase with adverbial genitive) lit., "what the
inscription of my sign-board is and my [social] standing," trans.,
_what my occupation is and my standing in life_.
24-2. {=wo ... her=} (separated) for the more common form {woher´}.
24-3. {=nie´derrheinisch=}, _from the Lower Rhine_, i.e. from the
northwestern part of Germany.
24-4. {ehrlicher Leute =Kind=} (sing., collectively), a phrase for
{ehrlicher Leute Kinder}. Cf. Page 20, Note 4.
24-5. {=es=} (indef.), perhaps: _things_ or _affairs_.
24-6. {=es=} (indef.), here perhaps: _my fate_ or _a change in my
life_.
24-7. {=es wurde ... gestrickt=}, _some little knitting was done_.
24-8. {=wanderten=} (=wandered=). Account for the idiom. Cf. Page 4,
Note 12.
24-9. {=es=} (introductory or grammatical subject); what is the
logical subject?
24-10. {=doch=} (adverb. idiom), adds force to the request.
24-11. {=geben Sie mir die Körbchen!=}--The point lies in the double
meaning of the phrase {Einem einen Korb geben} = (1) literally: _to
give one a basket_, and (2) figuratively: _to refuse a suitor_; _to
give "the sack"_ or _"the mitten."_
=Page 25.=--25-1. {=es=} (indef.), here _the thought_.
25-2. {=komm=}. Note the sudden change of address from the formal
second pers. pl. to the affectionate second pers. singular.
25-3. {=die=} (emphat.) = {diese, sie}--how known that it is not
relative pronoun?
25-4. {=um so hübscheres=}, _all the prettier_.
25-5. {ein Kuß =brannte=} (=burnt=), _was fired_.
25-6. {=ob=} (obsol. prepos.) = {über} or {wegen}.
25-7. {=es=} (introductory), _there_.
25-8. {=es hat nicht seine Richtigkeit mit der ...=}, _there is_ (or
_must be_) _some misconception as to her being a ..._
25-9. {=Knigge's »Umgang mit Menschen,«=} _Baron Knigge's_ (1751-1796)
once famous standard book »_Instruction in Deportment_.«
25-10. {=Pen=}(pronounce as in French){=sions´mutter=}.
=Page 26.=--25-1. {=sich=} (dat. = {mit sich}), _with himself_; _in
his mind_.
25-2. {=das=}, refers to the kissing and embracing.
25-3. {=kurze Verlobungszeit=}, while as a rule, in Germany, years
elapse _between betrothal and marriage_ of a young couple.
25-4. {=bei mir=} ({zu Hause} being understood).
25-5. {=wohin´=} ({wir reisen sollten} being understood).
25-6. {kamen =gefahren=}. Note the idiomatic use of the
perf. partic. instead of the pres. partic. after {kommen}--_came
riding_ or _driving_.
25-7. {=wo ... hin´=fährt} (separated), for the more common form
{wohin ... fährt}. Cf. Page 24, Note 2.
25-8. {=Kassel=}, capital of the Prussian province of Hesse-Kassel.
25-9. {=hast du=} (cf. Page 2, Note 1) = {wenn} (time) {du hast}.
25-10. {=Frankfurt a. M.=}, _Frankfurt-on-the-Main_ (river), a
far-famed city of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.--From 1562 to
1792 the German emperors were crowned in the Frankfurt Cathedral. The
town was also the residence of the German kings under the _Franconian_
Dynasty, 768-911, after whom the town has been named.
25-11. {=sagt=}--colloq. omission of an adverb as {darauf} or {da}.
25-12. {=da´hin laß mich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehen!=} _there,
O, my true lov'd one, thou with me must go!_ (Thomas Carlyle).--These
words of Mignon forming the refrain of each of the three strophes of
Goethe's ballad »Mignon« (see page 28) are here skillfully and
affectionately attributed to the young wife of the narrator.
25-13. {=uns=} (dat. of interest), humorously, trans. somewhat like
_to our edification_.
25-14. {=wir gehen=}--present tense instead of the future, to express
an immediate or certain future as if actually present, or it may be
taken in the sense of an imperative.
25-15. {=Heidelberg=}, town in the grand-duchy of Baden, charmingly
situated on the Neckar (river), with a famous university founded in
1386, the oldest in the present German Empire.
25-16. {Heidelberg, =das Wetterloch!=} (_bad weather-quarters_). In a
similar manner, Joseph Victor Scheffel, the life-long admirer and bard
of Heidelberg, complains of the wet character of the old
university-town on the Neckar, in the closing line of the Preface to
his "Gaudeamus," a collection of merry college-songs, where he says:
{»_Der_} genius loci {_Heidelbergs ist feucht_,«}--now a familiar
quotation.
25-17. {=sitzt=}. Cf. Note 11, above.
25-18. {=im »Ritter,«=} i.e. {im Hotel »zum Ritter,«} an inn in the
Market-Square of Heidelberg, erected in 1592, almost the only house in
town which escaped destruction by the French in 1693.
=Page 27.=--27-1. {=Freiburg im Breisgau=}, also called {Freiburg in
Baden} (abbrev. {Freiburg i. B.}, for either designation), a town with
university, in the southern part of the grand-duchy of Baden,
beautifully situated on the western edge of the Black Forest.--About
{Breisgau} see the Vocabulary.
27-2. {=u. s. w.=} (abbrev. for {und so weiter}), _and so on_.
27-3. {=der Blauen=} ("=Blue= Mountain"), name of one of the highest
peaks in the Black Forest; in translation retain the German form of
the name.
27-4. {=was=}, colloq. for {etwas}.