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Daniel Hecht was a man of forty, tall, cold, correctly dressed, a marked Phenician type; he looked clever and disagreeable: there was a scowl on his face: he had black hair and a beard like that of an Assyrian King, long and square-cut. He hardly ever looked straight forward, and he had an icy brutal way of talking which sounded insulting even when he only said "Good-day."
After clambering over steep, slippery glaciers they had begun the climb proper at five o'clock in the morning, Dr. Hecht pushing forward in order to be the first human being who had ever placed his foot upon the summit of the mountain. He had indeed almost reached the highest point when a dark, terrific chasm suddenly yawned beneath him, entirely cutting off all farther progress.
It was much better to wait there than at the station. Had he enough money? They rummaged through their pockets, and when they counted all that they possessed between them, it only amounted to thirty francs. It was September. Hecht, the Arnauds, all their friends, were out of Paris. They had no one to turn to. Christophe was beside himself, and talked of going part of the way on foot.
"And to think," said Christophe, "that your Republic authorizes such practices! You say that man is free. And you put ideas up to public auction." "You have had your money," said Hecht. "Thirty pieces of silver. Yes," said Christophe. "Take them back." He fumbled in his pockets, meaning to give the three hundred francs back to Hecht. But he had nothing like that sum.
In something like a minute more both Dugan and Hecht returned. "I couldn't find Dudley, sir," reported Hecht. "I've looked for him everywhere that he ought to be." "Then find the first officer on duty that you can, and, with my compliments, ask him to report instantly," ordered Admiral Bentley. In barely more than a jiffy a young lieutenant of marine stepped into the room, saluting the admiral.
One day when his friend's poverty had been brought home to him he left him suddenly and returned a few hours later in triumph with a few francs which he had squeezed in advance out of Hecht. Olivier blushed and refused. Christophe was put out and made to throw them to an Italian who was playing in the yard. Olivier withheld him.
Wolfgang reached after fourteen hours of toil and great danger. At half-past four, Jakob, having crossed the valley in search of his oxen, came upon the Bohemian gentleman whose name afterward proved to be Dr. Hecht with the two Ausserkofers, and learned their adventures in the ascent of the Wild Gall.
Hecht had just made up his mind to publish the David: and the score, well launched, had had an instantaneous success abroad.
I now learned that everybody connected with the Princess was thoroughly accustomed to such disturbances. Here, too, the house soon filled with all sorts of guests: Herwegh and his wife came, Dr. Wille and his wife, Kirchner, and several others, and before long our life in the Hecht yielded nothing, in point of activity, to our life in the Hotel Baur.
Hecht and Cousin Parnelia and all." "The President comes," advanced Judith. Sylvia was sweeping in her iconoclasm. "What if he does old fish-mouth! He's nobody he's a rough-neck himself. He used to be a Baptist minister. He's only President because he can talk the hayseeds in the Legislature into giving the University big appropriations.
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