Sebastian, who had an oddly judicial air, such as men acquire who
are in authority, held the balance evenly between the sisters, and
smiled apologetically over his fiddle towards the victim of
Desiree's impetuosity.
"Yes," he would reply to watching mothers, who tried to lead him to
say that their daughter was the best dancer in the school: "Yes,
Mathilde puts it into their heads, and Desiree shakes it down to
their feet."
In all matters of the household Desiree played a similar part. She
was up early and still astir after nine o'clock at night, when the
other houses in the Frauengasse were quiet, if there were work to
do.
"It is because she has no method," said Mathilde, who had herself a
well-ordered mind, and that quickness which never needs to hurry.
CHAPTER V. THE WEISSEN ROSS'L.
The moth will singe her wings, and singed return,
Her love of light quenching her fear of pain.
There are quite a number of people who get through life without
realizing their own insignificance. Ninety-nine out of a hundred
persons signify nothing, and the hundredth is usually so absorbed in
the message which he has been sent into the world to deliver that he
loses sight of the messenger altogether.
By a merciful dispensation of Providence we are permitted to bustle
about in our immediate little circle like the ant, running hither
and thither with all the sublime conceit of that insect.
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