He punished the overseer, and, being a kindly and perhaps not a very diplomatic man, talked high of what he felt and what he might consider it his duty to forbid or to enforce.

The firm began to look askance at such a consul; and worse was behind.

A number of deeds being brought to the consulate for registration, Zembsch detected certain transfers of land in which the date, the boundaries, the measure, and the consideration were all blank.

He refused them with an indignation which he does not seem to have been able to keep to himself; and, whether or not by his fault, some of these unfortunate documents became public.

It was plain that the relations between the two flanks of the German invasion, the diplomatic and the commercial, were strained to bursting.
But Weber was a man ill to conquer.