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Zwischen neun und neun - pp 89
'Um zehn Uhr war ich nochmals bei ihr in ihrer Wohnung, aber sie war noch immer nicht zu Hause. Bis ein Uhr bin ich vor ihrem Haus auf und ab gegangen. Sie kam nicht, und als es eins wurde und sie noch immer nicht da war, sah ich ein, daß es keinen Zweck hatte, länger zu stehen. Der Weiner hat ein Absteigquartier in der Liechtensteinstraße, dort hätte ich warten müssen.'
Near fragment in time
„Then the Prater became the roundezvous of Viennese high society. Then the Freudenau, at the time of the races, was a blaze of fashionable magnificence. On every day was a great stream of carriages along the Hauptallee (the principal avenue of the Prater), in which could be seen the equipages of all arristocratic families, those proud names which made the Viennese Court world-famous for its pride and exclusiveness – the Liechtensteins, the Montenuovos, the Schwartzenbergs, the Metternichs, the Fürstenbergs, the Kinkys, the Harrachs, and hundred other illustrious houses.
At the beginning of the Hauptallee were the coffee gardens and restaurants where the citizens resorted to spend their leisure in social gossip, [...]. Here, under the stately trees whose leaves whispered strange tales of past glories or mournful defeats, the middle-class frequenters gathered to enjoy their beers and cheese, or drink their coffee or and eat little Viennese rolls, in full view of the great avenue [...].“
pp 182-183 from The Secret of an empress by
At the beginning of the Hauptallee were the coffee gardens and restaurants where the citizens resorted to spend their leisure in social gossip, [...]. Here, under the stately trees whose leaves whispered strange tales of past glories or mournful defeats, the middle-class frequenters gathered to enjoy their beers and cheese, or drink their coffee or and eat little Viennese rolls, in full view of the great avenue [...].“