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Being entirely averse from entering himself for the German crown, he grew weary at last of the importunity with which the scheme was urged. So he wrote a short billet to his councillor, to be shown to Secretary Neu. "Dear Jocher," he said, "I am convinced one must let these people understand the matter in a little plainer German.
My reflections were cut short by a deafening noise that roused my sleeping companions. The children shrieked, and the women openly lamented. "That was a close call," commented Monsieur Neu, our concierge. Five or six boys wanted to rush out and see where the bomb had fallen. They were dissuaded, but with difficulty.
Else I should plunge in medias res upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited. The reader will assuredly unite with me in all such courtesies, "Neu desint epulis rosæ";
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