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He was the eldest but one of twelve children, and early became acquainted with want and distress, a circumstance which, in conjunction with his warm and affectionate heart, sufficiently explains his later social views. Educated in Rhenish Prussia, he attended the Protestant Faculty at Montauban, in Southern France, and then the University of Berlin, where he studied geography under Ritter.
"He swung the sail the wrong way." And then he ran off as advised. "Such meanness!" snorted Pepper. "And Coulter may be drowned!" "Ritter was always willing to lay the blame on somebody else," added Andy. The chums skated as closely as possible to where the iceboat was drifting in a sheet of open water a spot where some days before a farmer had been cutting ice.
I have never spoken of it to any one; but somehow to-night it would be a relief to talk. Brondi was staying at my house; he was the Tristan. One night he gave out he was ill, and some one else took the part. When I returned from the opera, he was gone and she was gone, and the house was dark and deserted." Ritter was silent for a moment.
When convinced that Willy was not teasing, she stared at Frederick speechlessly, burst into tears, and kissed his hands. Then she ran out. Soon after, Lobkowitz entered, a tall, quiet man. He had heard of Frederick's recent experience, and greeted him with simple cordiality. "Ritter has just come in his cart," he said. They looked out of the window.
"When we're all through, honey," Ritter told her. "Yes. When he brought home that revolver, it was in neglected condition," Rand said. "Either surface-rusted, or filthy with gummed oil and dirt. Even if Mrs. Fleming hadn't mentioned that point, the length of time he spent cleaning it would justify such an inference.
But Miller and Von Ritter, who knew Honduras from Fonseca Bay to Truxillo, assured me that, unless I met the man, who had insulted me before the people, our prestige would be entirely destroyed. To the Honduranian mind, the fact that I had thrashed him for so doing, would not serve as a substitute for a duel, it only made a duel absolutely necessary.
Sulzer, who was always ready when help or advice was needed, arranged for a meeting with Herr Kramer at a dinner at the 'Wilden Mann' in Winterthur. At this meeting it was decided, on my recommendation, that Karl Ritter should be appointed musical director at the theatre for the ensuing winter, starting from October, and the remuneration he was to receive was really a very fair one.
"First my watch and chain and now your scarfpin!" He looked pointedly at his chum. "Pepper, do you think " He stopped short. "Think what, Jack?" "Oh, I'd hate to say it, Pepper," and the young major shrugged his shoulders. "Were you going to mention Ritter and Coulter?" "I was. But maybe it wouldn't be fair. It's a terrible thing to think anybody a thief." "That is true.
I knew that this was so, and I hoped her brother would not be such an ass as to insist upon a duel, and make me pretend to fight him, that her father would be honest enough to pay his debts, and that some day she and I might be friends. But these hopes were killed by the entrance of Miller and Von Ritter. They looked very grave. "He won't apologize," Miller said.
The Ritter Gluck; or the Musical Sufferings of John Kreisler; or that very exquisite story of the Golden Jar, wherein is depicted the life of Poesy, in this common-place world of ours?" "Read the shortest. Read Kreisler. That will amuse me. It is a picture of his own sufferings at the esthetic Teas in Berlin, supposed to be written in pencil on the blank leaves of a music-book."
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