text:  "In fact " (says an eloquent writer in Maga of April 1840 ) "it is to this attitude of listening expectation in the king and breathless waiting for the blow that Schiller alludes in that fine speech of Wallenstein to his sister where he notices the funeral knells that sounded continually in Henry's ears; and above all his prophetic instinct that caught the sound from a far distance of his murderer's motions that could distinguish amidst all the tumult of a mighty Capital those stealthy steps