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"A letter for you, Herr Doctor," he cried, and his red nose gleamed in the evening glow, strongly foreshortened to the Doctor's eye. "Gleich," replied Claudius, and the yellow head disappeared from the window, its owner descending to open the door. As he mounted the dingy staircase Claudius turned the great sealed envelope over and over in his hand, wondering what could be the contents.
The maid who came said "Gleich," but she did not come back, and about the time they were getting furious at her neglect, they began getting warm. He put his hand on the stove and found it hot; then he looked down for a door in the stove where he might shut a damper; there was no door. "Good heavens!" he shouted. "It's like something in a dream," and he ran to pull the bell for help. "No, no!
As from an ambush there arrived the fat, yellow telegraph envelope. "Ach, was!" protested Herr Haase. "And I thought it was the coffee you were bringing." "'S Kaffee kommt gleich," the stout, tow-haired girl assured him; but already he had torn open the envelope and was surveying its half-dozen sheets of code.
Keysler's Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. Translated from the German, 1756. 2 vols. 4to. Keysler, though a German, was educated at St. Edmund's Hall: he travelled with the Count of Gleich and other noblemen. His favourite study was antiquities; but his judgment, in those parts of his travels which relate to them, has been questioned.
This proximity gives rise to a conversation between the two antipodal British authors: Sterne says: “Wir brauchen beide vielen Raum, Your Reverence viel zum Händeringen, Und meine Wenigkeit, zum Pfeifen, Tanzen, Singen.” and later, . . . “Und will von Herzen gern der Thor der Thoren seyn; Jüngst that ich ernst: gleich hielt die Narrheit mich beym Rocke.
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