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A myth a fable: but significant, as one more attempt to answer the question of all questions in a Teuton's mind What had become of the Nibelungen hoard? What had become of all the wealth of Rome? I asked in my first lecture, 'What would become of the forest children, unless some kind saint or hermit took pity on them? I used the words saint and hermit with a special purpose.
"Your husband? Dr. Ashton, Teuton's friend?" "Yes," replied she, her eyes falling, and her breast beginning to heave. "I had promised not to tell; but it was not right. I should have told you, but I could not bear Oh," she cried, breaking off her sentence abruptly, "if you despise me it is only my due!" "Despise you! As if it were possible! But don't you know? Haven't you been told?" "Know?
In short, the patience which he displayed was such as to make the wooden persistency of the German a persistency merely due to the slow, lethargic circulation of the Teuton's blood seem nothing at all, seeing that by nature Chichikov's blood flowed strongly, and that he had to employ much force of will to curb within himself those elements which longed to burst forth and revel in freedom.
I hunted up Bedient at noon, and we talked about some of these matters. And then we met Ritchold for luncheon. It was at Teuton's. I took Bedient aside and whispered with a flourish, 'One of our ten-thousand-a-year editors, Andrew.... 'What makes him worth that? he asked. 'He knows what the people want, I replied. Can you see us, Beth?... "The luncheon was interesting.
You know the Nibelungen Lied? That expresses, I believe, the key-note of the old Teuton's heart, after his work was done.
This habit of contemptuously attributing to other peoples vileness and degeneracy because their social ideals differ from her own is part of that lack of imagination which is the Teuton's undoing. The courage, endurance, and high spirit displayed by the French have compelled German admiration.
He had on his head a helmet with an open visor, and without feathers; on his legs was bull's hide. On their left shoulders, they carried shields with coat of arms; on the Teuton's at the top was a chessboard, at the bottom, three lions rampant; on Zbyszko's, a blunt horseshoe.
Schwandorf continued shoveling food into his capacious mouth. "Know anything about the Raposa?" Knowlton asked. The Teuton's eyelashes flickered. He ground another chunk of meat between his jaws before answering. "Of course," he said then. "Wild dog. Sharp snout, gray hair, bushy tail. I've shot a couple of them." "This one is a man. Green eyes, streak of white hair over the left ear.
With a last desperate effort the latter twisted himself sufficiently to allow his free arm to again swing the handcuffs, and this time they caught the wachtmeister neatly on the nose, setting that organ bleeding profusely, and raising the big Teuton's angry passions to a boiling-over point.
Having said this, he cast before them his knightly glove, which fell upon the floor; they again stood in deep silence, because, although more than one of them would have liked to break his weapon on the Teuton's back, they all feared God's judgment.