Translated from the Danish by Hanna Astrup Larsen and Published in Twelve stories as Sildig Opvaagnen, 1828 I cannot remember any death that has caused a greater sensation than that of my friend of many years' standing, Dr. L------ in the town of R. People stopped each other in the street, they ran from house to house, asking, "Have you heard it? Do you know about it? What could have been the reason? Could he have done it in a fit of madness?" and so on. He was a very genial man, universally liked and respected, an excellent physician with a large practice; happily married, so far as we knew; the father of six fine children, the two eldest sons already launched in the world, the daughter married to a worthy civil servant, the next one just grown up, and the two youngest ten and twelve year