Excerpt from Fides, or the Beauty of Mayence, Vol. 1 of 3: Adapted From the German

Frau Braunschiedel, though usually the most stoical of market women in all Mayence, began on a particular occasion, about three o'clock in the afternoon, to grow very restless. Something greatly out of the general course of things must have happened to cause this phlegmatic dame to rise from her stool, especially as it was in the afternoon of a sultry day in September. She had, however, received a hint that the apprentices were assembling by the two fountains in the Market Place, with the intention of falling on the students, her best customers, who were just then in the college.

She was accustomed to stand before the Jesuits' Church, to which the University was so near as to enable her easily to distinguish, through the open windows of the building, the voice of her old acquaintance, Professor Nicholas Vogt. To tell the plain truth, however, the good woman's anxiety was caused less by her sympathy with the students than her cares for her baskets.

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