The living contents were his god-daughter Gräuben, a young Virlandaise of seventeen, Martha, and myself. As his nephew and an orphan, I became his laboratory assistant.
En ella compartíamos con él la vida su ahijada Graüben, una joven curlandesa de diecisiete años de edad, la criada Marta y yo, que, en mi doble calidad de huérfano y sobrino, le ayudaba a preparar sus experimentos.