In the Kaiser's Capital (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...Virchow lying on a couch. He looked up at me and greeted me heartily. He received Mr. White's flowers and the message I brought with evident pleasure. As I sat down I said, "Ich habe aber gedacht, Sie waren alt genug um zu wissen, dass man nicht wahrend der Fahrt von einem elektrischen Wagen abspringen darf."--" I thought, Dr. Virchow, that you were old enough to know that you should not jump from an electric car whilst it is still in motion." Quick as a flash came his answer, " Mein lieber Herr Pastor, wissen Sie nicht, dass man niemals so alt ist, dass man nicht glaubt doch noch Jung zu sein?" "My dear Pastor, one is never so old that he does not think that he is still young." After two or three weeks I wrote to Mr. White that though Virchow was progressing favourably, he was still suffering, and that at times his pain was intense. Mr. White wrote me, " Go again and take him some more flowers." Frau Virchow welcomed me on this visit and sat down beside us, and it was most interesting to note the strong attachment between them. Virchow was a man of remarkably strong character, strong of purpose and will, not by any means an easy character to live with. Frau Virchow understood him thoroughly. They had lived together more than half a century and were devotedly attached to each other. Frau Virchow was just as strong a character as her husband. She had just as strong a purpose and just as strong a will. She was what the Scotch would call a wonderfully "self-contained woman." She possessed self-restraint and true gentleness in such a degree that she was just as great in her own way as her husband was in his. He told me he was so far recovered that he proposed to go to a bath for a cure. "Where wil...