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Cries and gestures of assent accompanied the last sentence; but Berthold Vorchtel recognised the demonstration by remarking that it showed him that the Council, in the name of the city, would be disposed to do its share in raising the amount still lacking. This statement elicited opposition, expressed in several quarters in low tones, and from one seat loudly, and Herr Berthold heard it.

A voluptuous light crept across Herr Carovius’s face: here was defeat and despair, weeping and gnashing of teeth; what more could he wish? He felt that he was personally the annihilator of the collective aristocracy.

'You can give it to the steward, and tell him to keep the things in a cool place. Griggs took the basket with a slight smile, but Stromboli snatched it from him instantly, and managed at the same time to seize upon the book Herr Tiefenbach had brought without dropping his own big box of sweetmeats. 'I shall give everything to the waiter! he cried with exuberant energy as he turned away.

As the peace-maker's work was already drawing to a close, the wounded lad, pointing with his sound hand in the direction of the school, suddenly called warningly: "There comes Herr von Nordwyk. Let the Glipper go, or there will be trouble." Paul Van Swieten again clasped his wounded arm with his right hand and ran swiftly around the church.

I walked very slowly now, and watched him carefully; he stopped at the blacksmith's. I stepped into hiding, and saw the door open, and Herr Mack enter the house. It was one o'clock; I could tell by the look of the sea and the grass. A few days passed as best they could; my only friend was the forest and the great loneliness. Dear God!

"I shouldn't wonder," he went on meditating gravely, "if she doesn't try and make some mischief somehow. She looks it." At that moment Thelma ceased singing, and the room rang with applause. Herr Machtenklinken was overcome with admiration. "It is a voice of heaven!" he said in a rapture. The fair singer was surrounded with people. "I hope," said Mrs.

In the right wall of the entry there were also two small doors, reached by a flight of steps. At this hour both closed empty rooms, for the office and the chamber where Herr Ernst Ortlieb received his business friends had not been occupied since sunset, and the bathroom and dressing-room adjoining were used only during the day.

He met Benno at the front door. He did not recognise the foppishly-dressed young man, and was on the point of passing by without speaking to him; but Benno stopped, and laughed out loud. “Whew, the Herr Kapellmeister!” he cried, and his pale face, already showing the signs of dissipation, took on a scornful expression. “Be careful, my friend, or Gertrude will swoon.”

"So far," I could not help saying to my friends, "I have seen no signs of the 'roughing it' for which you prepared me. I call this luxurious." "Yes, this is very comfortable," said Herr von Walden. "At Silberbach, which we shall reach to-morrow evening, all will be much more homely." "But that is what I like," I maintained stoutly. "I assure you I am not at all difficile, as the French say."

Then Herr Ernst had suddenly become aware of the suspicion with which his beautiful, brave, self-sacrificing child was regarded. Pale as death, he struggled for composure, and when his eyes met the imploring gaze of the basely defamed girl, he said to himself that he must maintain his self-control in order not to afford the frivolous revellers who surrounded him an entertaining spectacle.