His place would be the very one for you if you find nothing worthy of you here, where you have a house of your own and other things that bind you to the city." "Here I should probably be obliged to crowd somebody else out of one in order to obtain a position," replied Wolf, "and I am unwilling to do so." "You are wrong," cried the violinist.

"The course of the world causes the stronger--and that you are--to take precedence of the weaker.

Learn at last to give up this modest withdrawal and elbow your way forward!" "Pressing and jostling are not in my nature;" replied Wolf with a slight shrug of the shoulders.

"Since I may hope to be relieved of anxiety concerning my daily bread, I am disposed to leave the court and seek quiet happiness in a more definite circle of duties at home.

You see, Massi, it is just the same with us human beings as with material things.
There is my man cutting the rope from yonder package with his sharp knife.