September and October were prosperous months in Bleiberg.

Fashionable people who desired quiet made Bleiberg an objective point.

The pheasants were plump, there were boars, gray wolves, and not infrequently Monsieur Fourpaws of the shaggy coat wandered across from the Carpathians.
As to the lower town, it was given over to the shops and markets, the barracks, the university, and the Rathhaus, which served as the house of the Diet.

It was full of narrow streets and quaint dwellings.
Up the Konigstrasse the guide led the Englishman, who nodded whenever the voluble chatter of the German pleased him.

When they began the descent of the hill, the vista which opened before them drew from the Englishman an ejaculation of delight.