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208 The Floral King.
man of honour, your dear and kind husband, my
respected father-in-law, defunct, pray remember
that he were dead, if he left no children behind
him. Our brother Petrus is, as regards his body, as
surely a part of you, dear Madam, as your own
hand is. His life is my dear father-in-law’s as
surely as the arm belongs to the body. Brother
Petrus is thus my father-in-law with you, dear
Madam, or a part of both. My deceased father-in-
law lives and continues in the children as long as
the children and grand-children live, and increase.
Or can one sever a branch from the stem of a tree,
and say that the branch is not as much the tree
itself as the rest of it? You, dear Madam, favour
the increase in your branches, the best you can
without ruining the stem, because then the whole
tree will die away. I am not particularly acquainted
with brother Petrus, but least of all with him of all
my brothers and sisters-in-law. That I love brother
Petrus is nothing else but that I love the stem. If
this perishes, then there is no more relation, no
reliance between relatives, against the natural law
of humanity. This is the cause of marriage, of
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