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herself but little with the new pupil. Whenever she had occasion 
to find fault, she spoke of him to her husband as *¢ your Hauser,” 
which is significant of her own indifference ; but her mother, who 
lived near by, was always kind to Kaspar, and he repaid her 
gentleness with an affectionate confidence which aroused the 
jealousy of Meyer and his wife, who ascribed the difference in the 
boy’s conduct to vanity and a love of being petted and praised. 
Kaspar found the arrangements made for his safety in Ansbach 
extremely inconvenient, and soon requested to be allowed to go 
about by himself like other people. In Nuremberg he had been 
accompanied by two policemen, and although he did not like it, 
because it made him look like a prisoner, still they were always at 
his service, and he could go out whenever he chose. 
But in Ansbach he had as bodyguard an old invalid soldier, 
who came only once a day to see that no harm happened to him 
when he took his regular walk, and as he often wanted to run off 
an errand, or saunter about for his own amusement, he found it 
unbearably tedious to be obliged either to stay at home or be de- 
pendent upon the convenience of some member of the family. 
No doubt the matter was made as troublesome as possible, in 
nrder to induce Kaspar to rebel, and thus to do away with the 
constant attendance of a protector. 
He applied to Feuerbach for permission to go out alone, and 
Feuerbach, after consultation with Meyer and Hickel, consented 
to allow him to walk in the most frequented streets during the 
daytime ; but forbade his going outside the town or into by- 
places or into the park alone, while he was never to go anywhere 
after dark without a companion. 
Feuerbach really thought that whatever danger might have 
existed in Nuremberg, there could be none in Ansbach, since it 
was known everywhere that Kaspar had been adopted by a foreign 
nobleman, and would soon be taken away from Germany. 
Early in March, 1832, President von Feuerbach went to Munich, 
and had an interview with the Court chaplain, which led to his 
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