. Thackerayana;. ivate apartment, where onlya very few privileged personswere admitted; but he liked toknow all that was happening,and interested himself aboutall strangers. ... Ofcourse I remember very wellthe perturbation of spirit withwhich, as a lad of nineteen,I received the long-expectedintimation that the Herr Ge-heimrath would see me onsuch a morning. This notableaudience took place in a littleante-chamber of his privateapartments, covered all roundwith antique casts and bas-reliefs. He was habited in a German student of the period. (Weimar, x83o) ^ ^ ^ dmb redingotej with a white neck
. Thackerayana;. ivate apartment, where onlya very few privileged personswere admitted; but he liked toknow all that was happening,and interested himself aboutall strangers. ... Ofcourse I remember very wellthe perturbation of spirit withwhich, as a lad of nineteen,I received the long-expectedintimation that the Herr Ge-heimrath would see me onsuch a morning. This notableaudience took place in a littleante-chamber of his privateapartments, covered all roundwith antique casts and bas-reliefs. He was habited in a German student of the period. (Weimar, x83o) ^ ^ ^ dmb redingotej with a white neckcloth and a red riband in his button-hole. Hekept his hands behind his back, just as in Rauchs statuette. Hiscomplexion was very bright, clear, and rosy; his eyes extraordi-narily dark, piercing, and brilliant. I felt quite afraid beforethem, and recollect comparing them to the eyes of the hero ofa certain romance called Melmoth the Wanderer, which usedto alarm us boys thirty years ago ; eyes of an individual who. GOETHE AND WEIMAR. 105 had made a bargain with a certain person, and at an extreme oldage retained these eyes in all their awful splendour. I fanciedGoethe must have been still more handsome as an old man thaneven in the days of his youth. His voicewas very rich and sweet. He asked mequestions about myself, which I answeredas best I could. I recollect I was at firstastonished, and then somewhat relieved,
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