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Ernst von Wildenbruch
Ernst von Wildenbruch (3.2.1845 - 15.1.1909) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Diplomat. Zu Wildenbruchs Schaffen zählen zahlreiche Dramen, Romane und Erzählungen. Er gilt als ein Hauptvertreter des großen gründerzeitlichen Historiendramas der 1880er Jahre.
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Good Blood - Ernst von Wildenbruch
Ernst von Wildenbruch
Good Blood
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Is it possible that there are people quite free from curiosity? People who can pass on behind any one they see gazing earnestly and intently toward some unknown object without feeling an impulse to stop, to follow the direction of the other’s eyes, to discover what odd thing he may be looking at?
For my part, if I were asked whether I counted myself among that class of cold natures, I do not know that I could honestly answer Yes.
At any rate, there was once a moment in my life when I was not only goaded by such an impulse, but when I actually yielded to the temptation and fell into the way of any mere curiosity seeker.
The place in which it happened was in a wine-room in the old town where as Referendar {1} I was practising at court; the time was an afternoon in summer.
1 The title conferred in Prussia on the candidate who has
passed the first of the two examinations held before
appointment as judge.
The wine-room, situated on the ground floor of a house in the great square which from the window one could look out upon in every direction, was at this hour nearly empty. To me this was all the more agreeable, for I have ever been a lover of solitude.
There were three of us: the fat waiter, who from a gray, dust-covered bottle was pouring out the golden-yellow Muscatel into my glass; then myself, who sat in a nook of the cozy, odd-cornered room and smacked the fragrant wine; and still another guest, who had taken his place at one of the two open windows, a tumbler of red wine lying before him on the window-sill, in his mouth a long brown, smoke-seasoned meerschaum cigar-holder, out of which he wrapped himself in a cloud of smoke.
This man, who had a long gray beard framing a ruddy face tinged bluish in places, was an old retired colonel, whom every one in town knew. He belonged to that colony of the Superannuated who had settled down in this pleasant place to wearily drag out the end of their days.
Toward noon they could be seen strolling deliberately in groups of twos or threes down the street, shortly to disappear into the wine-room, where between twelve and one they assembled at the round table to gossip. On the table stood pint bottles of sourish Moselle, over the table floated a thick mist of cigar smoke, and through the mist came voices, peevish, grating, discussing the latest event in the Army Register.
The old colonel, too, was a regular patron of the wine-room, but he never came at the hour of