My head is muddled by traveling--I have not made up my mind yet." "Have you seen Minna ?" "Seen her, and kissed her too! There's a girl after my own heart.

I consider our scatter-brained friend Fritz to be the luckiest young fellow living." "If Minna was not going to be married," I suggested, "she would just do for one of your young-lady clerks, wouldn't she ?" My aunt laughed.

"Exactly what I thought myself, when I saw her.

But you are not to make a joke of my young-lady clerks.

I am positively determined to carry out that useful reform in the office here.