Chapter 15 VON WEBER-THE RAKE REFORMED

"Though thou hast now offended like a man.

Do not persever in it like a devil;

Yet, yet, thou hast an amiable soul,

If sin by custom grow not into nature."

Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus"

Few novels are so brilliantly written, or so variously absorbing, as the life of Von Weber, written by his son, the Baron Max Maria von Webe