Unforgettable words

Unforgettable words is a novella by Paul Heyse from 1883.

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In the garden of a half-ruined villa near Vicenza, the Baroness Victoire meets a young man, the philosopher Dr. Philipp Schwarz. She offers him to come with her to her castle in Styria to live as a kind of tutor for her younger brother. Philipp travels with her, befriends the boy and adores the daughter of the house without really getting close to her. When she told her cousin during a walk that she had bought Philipp and would one day marry him as her property, the young man who unwillingly witnessed this conversation was shocked and immediately said goodbye to the baroness's castle. This lives on, without getting married, far away from society. Finally she learns of his end from her cousin, who came across Philip's grave in the Protestant cemetery in Rome. She has the grave inscription "Oblivisci nequeo", who also died shortly after her mother's death, placed on her tombstone.

Marcell Wedderkopp mentions this novella in Fontane's novel Frau Jenny Treibel in order to show that he is less sensitive than Philipp Schwarz and that Corinna Schmidt, despite her airs, would like to marry him.