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Vanity has wrecked me, in this world and the next. I am the victim of self-incense. I hear the demons shouting their chorus "Here comes Monk Gregory, who called himself Conqueror of Darkness!" In the camp I am discredited and a scoff; in the city I am spat upon, abhorred. Satan, my son, fights not with his fore- claws. 'Tis with his tail he fights, O Farina!

Passing a low-vaulted dungeon-room, they wound up stairs hewn in the rock, and came to a door, obedient to her touch, which displayed a chamber faintly misted by a solitary bar of moonlight. Farina perceived they were above the foundation of the castle.

'Tell me how the streets cross all round the Cathedral you know the city, said the stranger, holding out his hand. Farina traced with his finger a rough map of the streets on the stranger's hand. 'Good! that's how my lord always marks the battlefield, and makes me show him the enemy's posts. Forward, this way!

He made it stumpy as a brown bear's! He carried it upright as a pike! 'O my sons! have I sown dissension? Have I not given ye peace? exclaimed the Monk. But they continued to discuss it with increasing frenzy. Farina cast a glance over the tumult, and beheld his friend Guy beckoning earnestly. He had no difficulty in getting away to him, as the fetters of all eyes were on the Monk alone.

Farina drew the arms of the holy combatant across his shoulders and descended Drachenfels. The tempest was as a forgotten anguish. Bright with maiden splendour shone the moon; and the old rocks, cherished in her beams, put up their horns to blue heaven once more.

It has two small bulbs about an inch below the surface of the earth, and these, when broken, exhibit a highly granulated texture, semi-transparent like half-boiled sago. From these bulbs the arrowroot is produced by pounding them in water and drying the precipitated farina in the sun.

Now, my lad, you see what comes of dealing with cut and run blows; and let this be a warning to you. They took the body by head and feet, and laid him at the door of his father's house. Here the colour came to his cheek, and they wiped off the streaks of blood that stained him. Guy proved he could be tender with a fallen foe, and Farina with an ill-fated rival.

'What mean you? cried Dietrich, lurching round on his enemy. 'Not so loud, friend, returned Farina. 'Or do you wish to frighten the maidens? I mean this, that the Club had better give as little offence as possible, and keep their eyes as wide as they can, if they want to be of service to Mistress Margarita. Dietrich turned off with a grunt. 'Now! said Margarita. She was tapping her foot.

Dietrich bowed, and passing Farina, informed him that the Club would wring satisfaction out of him for the insult. Farina laughed, but answered, 'Look, you of the Club! beer-swilling has improved your manners as much as fighting has beautified your faces. Go on; drink and fight! but remember that the Kaiser's coming, and fellows with him who will not be bullied.

Even the signature is a conventional sign. The epistle is word for word as follows: "I am so filled with misgivings and anxiety on account of my returning to Rome that I can scarcely write I can only weep. And all this time when I found that Farina neither answered nor wrote to me I was able neither to eat nor sleep, and wept continually.