Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days

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''[...]anything just as much as he did. In short, the unknown happy one who makes the fair Clotilda unhappy, and for whom she sighs out her dumb, shy soul, and who for most of her charms has no eye at all, is the blind–Julius in Maienthal. Hence her desire to go thither. I should like to fill a folio volume with the proofs of this: Victor counted them off on his five fingers. On his thumb he said, ''For Julius's sake she seeks little Julia; so, too, is it with Giulia.'' At the forefinger he said, ''The French initial I looks like an S without the cross-stroke.'' At the middle finger, ''Minerva has furnished him, indeed, not merely the flute, but also Minerva's fair face, and in this blind Cupid's-face Clotilda could lose herself without blushing; even from love for his friend Emanuel, she might have loved him.'' At the ring-finger, ''Hence[...]''.