Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. The Royal bride (№ 424226)

Girls revere the mind, wit, soul and feelings only by good guests in a beautiful house, and when a man who does not face a fashionable tailcoat, whether it is Shakespeare or Goethe, decides to approach a young girl, he is in danger of being knocked out of position by any more or less stately hussar rotmistr in a shiny uniform.