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Obtaining from the trustees permission to increase his sal- 
ary by giving private lessons out of school hours, and securing 
enough of such work to make his prospective income five 
hundred dollars per year, he felt warranted in returning to 
Eisenach for his bride. 
Mr. Lesquereux touched high life at several points through 
this new connection. Goethe was for forty years a member of 
the same court to which his wife's father belonged, and during 
her childhood she enjoyed the special notice and even the 
friendship of the great author. The family still prize the cor- 
respondence which Goethe maintained with his childish friend. 
Prince William, afterward to become the great German Kai- 
ser, came also to this court to find his wife, viz., Augusta, the 
daughter of the grand duke of Saxe-Weimer— Eisenach. At the 
wedding, Mrs. Lesquereux was a bridesmaid and when a little 
later she herself wore the bridal veil, a young lieutenant of 
the army, Von Moltke by name, was the bridegroom's "best 
man :" the lieutenant became the greatest general of modern 
times. 
In the second year of Mr. Lesquereux's married life the 
trouble in his hearing, the foundation of which was laid in the 
perilous fall of his childhood, rapidly increased. He sufiered 
great pain during the progress of the disease. At time she be- 
came totally deaf, but would then secure partial though tem- 
porary relief. Finally, after a brave and persistent eff'ort to 
carry on his teaching, he was obliged to resign his position. 
Still hoping for restoration, he consulted an eminent physician 
in Paris, at whose hands he suffered treatment that would now 
expose anyone who should employ it to the charge of mal- 
practice. By it Mr. Lesquereux was thrown into brain fever 
and when he recovered from this, he was obliged to recognize 
the dreadful fact that he was hopelessly and incurably deaf 
These facts required a new arrangement of his life. Nothing 
seemed open to him at first but manual labor, and to this he 
turned with a cheerful courage that was most honorable to him. 
The change meant a great deal to himself and more to his wife, 
for it involved one of the most costly sacrifices that we can 
be compelled to make, that, namely, of social position. The 
bridesmaid of a queen finds herself the wife of a mechanic. 
The trade selected was that of engraving watch cases. He 
bought a turning lathe and applied himself diligently to the 
