HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

I^etne. 79
HEINE AKD HEGEL.
One beautiful starlit evening, as we
were standing together at a window, I,
a youth of two-and-twenty, who had just
well dined and had drunk my coffee, began
to speak sentimentally of the stars,
which I called the abode of the blessed.
The Master, however, only muttered,
"The stars, hum! hum! the stars are
merely a brilliant leprosy on the face of
the heavens." " In God's name," cried
I, " is there then no happy place above
where the virtuous after death may find
reward?" But Hegel, staring for a
moment at me with his leaden eyes,
said sharply, " You think then that you
•hould have a gratuity for tending your
sick mother, or for not poisoning your
elder brother ? " After saying this, he
looked round with anxiety, but seemed
quickly reassured when he saw that no
one was near except Henry Beer, who
had come to ask him to take a hand at
whist.
A WOMAN^S MODESTY.
The modesty of a woman is a protection
to her virtue more secure than all
the robes in the world, however little
they may be cut down at the neck.