The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-30
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representations of Charlotte than from his own good will. For, in this respect. women are good economists and endeavor to keep a good understanding between two admirers. It is not often successful on their part. but is worth while in the attempt. When it does succeed they are the only gathers by it.
 'Tn the meantime. let me honestly con-
 fess that I cannot help esteeming AL bert. The coolness and calmness of his demeanor are strikingly in contrast to the vehemence of mine, which I am not able to conceal. He has a great deal of feeling and Is truly sensible of the hap plness which he possesses in Charlotte. He seems very little disposed to be cap tious, which, you know, is the one fault I hold in the greatest abhorrence. He seems to regard me as a man possessed of a knowledge of the world. and my attachment to Charlotte, the lively inter est take in everything which pertains to her, seems only to increase his tri- umph and to provoke his love still more. I am positive, William, that were in his place the busy, tormenting fiend would never suffer me to be tenth part so easy and composed. O, Sensibilityl o Love. To what are your votaries doomed ? all that know now. I knew that I had no pretensions to her nor any claim upon her Yet now here I am, like an idiot, stupefed with her charms and with won
 der because the true owner comes and 1 deprives me of the casket to which, alas,
 had no real pretensions."
 Still werther could not keep away from I the house where Charlotte made her home He would wander out upon the
 mountains and pass whole nights in be
 wailing his hopeless love. He would call
 out to Nature to comfort him until the crags re-echoed the sound Of his voice l and the sleeping peasants in the village i below turned in their beds and said tc each other that some spirit was pass ing.
 1 But the next day found him again al l Charlotte's home. His letters to his
 friend William became more and more | incoherent and Respondent. and William ] strongly urged some regular occupation l It had been suggested to Werther some time before that If he desired a post as secretary to an ambassador he could have it, and now, at the earnest solicitation oi i William, werther made the application
 and received his appoinsment.
 | In the mazes and tangles of diplomacJ i he thought to lose the love which wal
 leading him, he felt, to destruction. Hs
 disappeared from Wanlheim, and for
 some months saw Charlotte no more Bu
 the ambassador to whom Werther wal secretary was a stupid mana man with
 out imagination, man who was 50 dia !, metrically the opposite i.i every way o the young idealist that 1t was inevitable
 that they should not long continue t' l work together From some of the letter' which werther at this time wrote to VII l liam it would appear to distinterestet person that Werther was III need of medi
 cal attendance.
 His new employment gave him no re
 spite from the consuming Ire of his low
 for Charlotte. He wrote to William: 'Yo'
 tell me to throw asids the hopes of pos
 sessing Charlotte or to forward m' claims. have hopes of possessing he ! or have not. You command me to re
 suns the man end throw asids ths un