Da trat Mrs. Fairfax ein. Damit fiel das feurige Mosaik zusammen, mit dem ich mich beschäftigt hatte, und zugleich zerstoben auch einige trübe, schwere, unwillkommene Gedanken, die angefangen hatten, meine friedliche Einsamkeit zu stören.
In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.