"Perhaps I cannot, then, be of service to you, but there is another to whom my assistance is of other value--nay, of the highest consequence.

I am not referring to the young lady--whom Munich will be so sorry to part with and whom I do not expect to see again even to accept my excuses--but the student from the Polish University who deservedly corrected me and brought me to my sober senses--although, perhaps, he had a heavy hand." He spoke with an assumption of manly regret, which enchanted the hearer and completed his revocation of the bad opinion of the rough suitor of his daughter.

Still the Jew had not laid aside all his habitual caution and he did not by word or movement betray that he had an acquaintance with his champion.
"I see that I must drop all flourishes and speak unfettered," went on the major, bluntly.

"In two words, our brawl has got to the ears of the provost-marshal as well as those of the town guardians, and the search is going to be thorough for that young gentleman.

I know it is absurd, and I protested against it, but the idea has penetrated their wooden heads that he is one of those tramp-students who are permeating the masses--worse, the dangerous classes--with seditious ideas, and they think he and Baboushka's gang too long lording it in the poor quarter, are hand and glove.