Where are the coverlets for the beds?

[Music: Treble clef.
Where? where?]


248.

TO FRAU VON STREICHER.

... It is now very evident from all this that if _you_ do not kindly
superintend things for me, I, with my _infirmities_, must meet with the
_same fate_ as usual at the hands of these people. Their _ingratitude_
towards you is what chiefly degrades both of them in my eyes. But I don't
understand your allusion about gossip? on one occasion alone can I remember
having forgotten myself for the moment, but _with very different people_.
This is all I can say on the subject. For my part I neither encourage nor
listen to the gossip of the lower orders. I have often given you hints on
the subject, without telling you a word of what I had heard. Away! away!
away! with such things!


249.

TO THE ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH.

Nussdorf, Sept. 1, 1817.

I hope to be able to join you in Baden; but my invalid condition still