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"On reaching Berlin, I went at once to the Packhof, straight to the office-room," standing more erect this time, "and handed them my Royal Rescript. The Head man opened the seal; in reading, he changed color, went from pale to red; said nothing, and gave it to the second man to read. The second put on his spectacles; read, and gave it to the third.
"To get out of people's sight at least," continues he, "I decided to leave my native place, and go to Berlin," 250 miles away or more. "And why?" says he, quite historically: Yes, Why? Linsenbarth answers his own "And why?" with historical calmness: At the Packhof, there was but one answer, 'Contraband, Contraband!" Here was a welcome for a man.
How am I to live, if you take my very money from me? 'That is your outlook, said they; and added, He must even find stowage for his stack of herring-scales or batzen, as soon as it was sealed up; 'we have no room for it in the Packhof!" for a man: Here is a roughish welcome "I must leave all my money here; and find stowage for it, in a day or two.
"That was what the King had meant when he said, "You shall have your money back and interest too: VIDELICET, that the Packhof was to pay my expenses at the White Swan. And our gray-whiskered, raw-boned, great-hearted Candidatus lay down to sleep, at the White Swan; probably the happiest man in all Berlin, for the time being.
'You should have informed yourself, said the Packhof people; and were deaf to such considerations. 'A man coming into such a Residenz Town as Berlin, with intent to abide there, should have inquired a little what was what, especially what coins were cried down, and what allowed, said they of the Packhof." Poor Linsenbarth!"'But what am I to do now?
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