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Albertine cried out, in immense indignation. "Whom are you talking about, Mr. Tussmann? Tell me, if you will be so kind." "Oh, thou, my Creator," cried Tussmann, in the fulness of his heart. "You ask, dearest Miss Albertine, who is an engaged young lady, and of whom I am talking? To whom else can I be alluding but to yourself? Are you not my future bride, whom I have so long adored in secret?
Tussmann, Clerk of the Privy Chancery, should not know that when an expert an expert, observe! knocks at the door of this Tower here or even on the wall of it, on the night of the autumnal equinox, there will appear to him, up at yonder window, the girl who is to be the happiest and luckiest sweetheart in Berlin till the spring equinox comes round." "Mr.
Let us go to the new wine-shop in Alexander Street; just that you may hear a little more about this young lady, and recover your peace of mind, which something I have no idea what has disturbed so tremendously." Tussmann was a most abstemious person. Wine he seldom touched, except that after service on Sundays he allowed himself a small glass of Malaga with a biscuit, in a certain restaurant.
Perhaps this was why, the next minute after he had disappeared from Tussmann, he appeared suddenly, like a ghost, in the Commissionsrath's room, and bade him good evening in a rough tone.
Tussmann, was lying "like a dropped acorn," as Celia, in 'As You Like It, expresses it, or like a wounded knight, pouring forth his heart's complainings to the perfidious autumn breeze. "Oh, God of justice!" he lamented. "Unhappy, pitiable Clerk of the Privy Chancery that you are! how did you ever come to deserve all the misery which has fallen to your share?
"Do not talk such absurd nonsense," the Goldsmith said, "but come along with me as fast as you can." He took hold of Tussmann by the arm, and led him away. But when they came to where the walk which leads to the Zelten crosses at right angles, he pulled up, and said "Wait a moment, Tussmann. You're wet through, and look like I don't know what. Just let me wipe your face, at all events."
And so as the clouds rolled blacker and blacker over the sky, as the shadows of the trees fell deeper, and the autumn wind soughed louder and louder through the branches Tussmann, as he pondered over all his wretchedness, got into a state of the profoundest despair.
I can't believe that you've changed your mind about marrying my daughter; that you are screening yourself behind all sorts of incredible nonsense and stuff which nobody can believe a word of; that you are going to say to me, 'Commissionsrath: You and I are men of the world, and I can't marry your daughter, because, if I do, the Devil will bolt away with my legs and beat me black and blue! It would be too bad, Tussmann, if you were to try on a trick of that sort upon me."
By the halbert he was carrying, I thought he was the watchman; so I said, 'Dearest watchman! worthy man! please to drive away that wraith of Clerk of the Privy Chancery Tussmann from that door there, so that I, the real Tussmann, may get into my lodgings. But the man growled out, 'Why, Tussmann! you're surely out of your senses! in a hollow voice; and I saw it wasn't the watchman at all, but that terrible Goldsmith who had got me in his arms.
Tussmann," the goldsmith said, "it appears to me that all this sort of intercourse, 'conversation, or whatever you please to call it, with women requires one to have a good deal of experience, extending over a very considerable period of time, if one is to avoid being befooled and made an ass of by it."
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