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"Well, well," he exclaimed, "you detest me, and I know it; but I bear you no malice on that account. We must part that is clear; also I must say that you begin to be very tiresome to me. Once more let me advise you to free yourself entirely from my troublesome presence by the purchase of your shadow." I held out the purse to him. "No, Mr. Schlemihl; not at that price."
If I am not wholly deceived, there are in our dear Germany many hearts both capable and worthy of comprehending poor Schlemihl, although a smile will arise on the countenance of many among our honest countrymen at the bitter sport which was death to him and to the innocent being whom he drew along with him.
Schlemihl you, whom I have been watching all the weary day, until you should recover from your nervous attack? What a fool's part I have been enacting! It is of no use flying from me, Mr. Perverse we are inseparable you have my gold, I have your shadow; this exchange deprives us both of peace.
It was his wish that the lesson which he had paid for so dearly should be turned to our profit; and his bitter experience calls to us with a loud voice, Think on the solid- -the substantial!" So far Chamisso. "Peter Schlemihl" has been translated into almost all the languages of Europe. Of the Dutch, Spanish, and Russian translations we do not possess any copies.
The man's words were precisely these: 'Tell your master, Peter Schlemihl, he will not see me here again. I am going to cross the sea; a favourable wind now calls all the passengers on board; but, in a year and a day I shall have the honour of paying him a visit; when, in all probability, I shall have a proposal to make to him of a very agreeable nature.
The editor is pleased not only to withhold the author's name, but manages so to word his own preface as to lead his readers to conclude that he himself is the author of the book. "Schlemihl" was also brought on the stage, but without giving the honours of authorship to the true source. This took place at Vienna, in February, 1819.
"Peter Schlemihl" was his parting salutation to his second fatherland, and the first foundation-stone of his future fame. Chamisso was often pestered with questions respecting what he really meant by the story of Schlemihl. These questions amused as well as annoyed him.
But he lingered some days, and when he did give up the ghost, or to speak more plainly, when he died, it was amidst the tears and lamentations of his family, and after he had received the last sacrament, and had expressed, in pathetic way, his horror at the books of chivalry. Peter Schlemihl, the Shadowless Man
After three years of terrible struggle and privation, Aaron had prepared an English home for his Yenta, but she slept instead in a Russian grave. Perhaps if his friends had known how he had thrown away the chance of sending for her earlier, they would have been still more convinced that he was a born Schlemihl.
Peter Schlemihl could then have walked about without detection, for no one had a shadow. On our journey we met several ships and steamers, and as the captain never missed an opportunity of signalling, the course of our voyage was known from various quarters. First, the number of the Hampshire, JNBV, is displayed by the flags, each flag representing a letter.
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