Page:The Works of J. W. von Goethe, Volume 1.djvu/95

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MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP
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These projects lightened Mariana's despondency only for a very short time. She could not bring her situation into harmony with her feelings, with her convictions: she would fain have forgotten the painful relations in which she stood, and a thousand little circumstances forced them back every moment to her recollection.