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He looked at it much longer than was needful to read it, stroking down his beard gravely, and I felt it was not so easy to confute a pupil of the school of Metternich. At last, folding the note and handing it back, "Has your friend mentioned Madame Blumenthal's errand at Wiesbaden?" he asked. "You look very wise. I give it up!" said I. "She is gone there to make the major follow her.
"It is worth it all, almost," he said, "to have been wound up for an hour to that celestial pitch. No man, I am sure, can ever know it but once." The next morning he had repaired to Madame Blumenthal's lodging and had been met, to his amazement, by a naked refusal to see him. He had strode about for a couple of hours in another mood and then had returned to the charge.
Mr Blumenthal's efforts had not secured him a place there after all; Anna, the capable niece of the Frau Foerster, having set down a large foot, clad in a thick white stocking and a carpet slipper, to the effect that there was only room for the Herr Foerster's family and the Americans. "I also am an American!" cried Mr Blumenthal in Hebrew-German.
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