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The old, sweet smile was on his lips, and as he yet held the stem of the glass with a shaking hand, and suffered that I should help him, he cried in a clear voice: "Once more, Prosit, Elsie! You have waited long enough up there for your old man. And Prosit, likewise, to my dear old home, the fair city of Nuremberg." Then he took breath and added according to his wont: "Prosit, Adam!
The German professor has his faults, but in his own simple home, the work of the day behind him, his family about him at his well-filled but not luxurious board, with some member of the family not unlikely to be an accomplished musician and with his own unrivalled store of learning at your service, when he raises his glass to you, filled with his best, with a smile and a hearty "Prosit," he is hard to beat as a host, to my thinking.
I drew near and read, and this was the writing: HARMACHIDI.SALVERE.EGO.SUM.QUEM.SUBDERE.NORAS PAULUS.ROMANUS.DISCE.HINC.QUID.PRODERE.PROSIT. "Greeting, Harmachis! I was that Roman Paulus whom thou didst suborn. Learn now how blessed are traitors!" Sick and faint I staggered back from the sight of that white corpse stained with its own blood.
Well, Marche, I drink to neither one side nor the other, but here's to the men with backbones. Prosit!" They laughed and clinked glasses. Grahame finished his bottle, rose, politely stifled a yawn, and looked humourously at Jack. "There are two beds in my room; will you take one?" said the young fellow. "Thank you, I will," said Grahame, "and as soon as you please, my dear fellow."
I must for ever be alone! ... She can sit near me, hours long, and never say one word; and when some other man is mentioned, burst out in ecstasy. I will do all I can to please her; but I must withdraw within myself, bury all my bitter feelings in my own heart, and work work work!" It was in the fall of 1813 prosit omen! that Von Weber met the Brunetti.
At the end, the chairman calls "Prosit!" Everyone answers "Prosit!" and the next moment every glass is empty. The pianist rises and bows, and is bowed to in return; and then the Fraulein enters to refill the glasses. Between the songs, toasts are proposed and responded to; but there is little cheering, and less laughter.
'I wanted to fight the man first, continued Greif, 'but Rex objected and appealed to me as the head of a Korps to get the matter settled at once. He wants to fight to-morrow morning with the rest. 'Prosit! laughed the second. 'We thought he was a Philistine! He must be forty years old! What a sight it will be! cried a dozen voices. 'As he demands it, we must oblige him, observed Greif.
The old, sweet smile was on his lips, and as he yet held the stem of the glass with a shaking hand, and suffered that I should help him, he cried in a clear voice: "Once more, Prosit, Elsie! You have waited long enough up there for your old man. And Prosit, likewise, to my dear old home, the fair city of Nuremberg." Then he took breath and added according to his wont: "Prosit, Adam!
"Eustace, I'll have to cut you out of this, I'm sorry to say. Holmes, I drink to your swift and happy recovery of the other nine cuff-buttons. Prosit!" At the welcome word of cheer we each put ourselves outside of the finest fermented grape-juice that had ever tickled my throat. "Thanks.
'I also desire to cross swords with you, said Greifenstein politely, using a stock phrase. 'Prosit! growled Bauer again. He took the card Rex offered him, and then, with a scarcely perceptible salute, turned on his heel and walked away. Greif remained standing during some seconds, gazing after the departing student.
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