Two Novellas Quotes

“Commercial Councillor van der Straaten (...) lived in superstitious dread of an annihilating blow to his happiness, but expected it neither today nor tomorrow; and the more certain and inevitable it seemed in the distant future, the safer and the more carefree he felt in the present.”
― Theodor Fontane, Two Novellas: The Woman Taken in Adultery; The Poggenpuhl Family