" she cried, and aroused her husband in afrightened way. He opened his eyes, rubbed them with his hands, andlooked at the brisk little lad. "Why, that is Bertel," said he. And myeye quitted the poor room, for I have so much to see. At the samemoment I looked at the halls of the Vatican, where the marble gods areenthroned. I shone upon the group of the Laocoon; the stone seemedto sigh. I pressed a silent kiss on the lips of the Muses, and theyseemed to stir and move. But my rays lingered longest about the Nilegroup with the colossal god. Leaning against the Sphinx, he lies therethoughtful and meditative, as if he were thinking on the rollingcenturies; and little love-gods sport with him and with thecrocodiles. In the horn of plenty sat with folded arms a little tinylove-god, contemplating the great solemn river-god, a true pictureof the boy at the spinning wheel- the features were exactly thesame. Charming and life-like stood the little marble form, and yet thewheel of the year has turned more than a thousand times since the timewhen it sprang forth from the stone. Just as often as the boy in thelittle room turned the spinning wheel had the great wheel murmured,before the age could again call forth marble gods equal to those heafterwards formed.
"Years have passed since all this happened," the Moon went on tosay. "Yesterday I looked upon a bay on the eastern coast of Denmark.Glorious woods are there, and high trees, an old knightly castlewith red walls, swans floating in the ponds, and in the backgroundappears, among orchards, a little town with a church. Many boats,the crews all furnished with torches, glided over the silentexpanse- but these fires had not been kindled for catching fish, foreverything had a festive look. Music sounded, a song was sung, andin one of the boats the man stood erect to whom homage was paid by therest, a tall sturdy man, wrapped in a cloak. He had blue eyes and longwhite hair. I knew him, and thought of the Vatican, and of the groupof the Nile, and the old marble gods. I thought of the simple littleroom where little Bertel sat in his night-shirt by the spinning wheel.The wheel of time has turned, and new gods have come forth from thestone. From the boats there arose a shout: "Hurrah, hurrah forBertel Thorwaldsen!""
TWENTY-FOURTH EVENING
"I will now give you a picture from Frankfort," said the Moon."I especially noticed one building there. It was not the house inwhich Goethe was born, nor the old Council House, through whose gratedwindows peered the horns of the oxen that were roasted and given tothe people when the emperors were crowned. No, it was a private house,plain in appearance, and painted green. It stood near the old Jews"Street. It was Rothschild"s house.
"I looked through the open door. The staircase was brilliantlylighted: servants carrying wax candles in massive silvercandlesticks stood there, and bowed low before an old woman, who wasbeing brought downstairs in a litter. The proprietor of the housestood bare-headed, and respectfully imprinted a kiss on the hand ofthe old woman. She was his mother. She nodded in a friendly mannerto him and to the servants, and they carried her into the darknarrow street, into a little house, that was her dwelling. Here herchildren had been born, from hence the fortune of the family hadarisen. If she deserted the despised street and the little house,fortune would also desert her children. That was her firm belief."
The Moon told me no more; his visit this evening was far tooshort. But I thought of the old woman in the narrow despised street.It would have cost her but a word, and a brilliant house would havearisen for her on the banks of the Thames- a word, and a villa wouldhave been prepared in the Bay of Naples.
"If I deserted the lowly house, where the fortunes of my sonsfirst began to bloom, fortune would desert them!"
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