Very novel, indeed, and considering the importance of the question of the disposal of his income, he could well afford to give it six months' consideration.

And he might move undisturbed about the University and eat his supper with Dr.Wiener and Dr.Wurst without being the object of general interest, which he would at once become if it were known that he, a simple _privat-docent_, with his decent black coat and his twice-mended shoes, was the richest man in the Grand Duchy of Baden.
These reflections of Dr.Claudius, strange as they must seem in the eyes of men of the world, were only what were to be expected from a man of his education and character.

He had travelled after a fashion, it is true, and had frequented society when he was younger; for the Heidelberg student is a lover of the dance, and many of the wild young _burschen_ become the brilliant officers of the crack regiments of the first army in the world.

He had been in Paris and Vienna and Rome for a few weeks, and, being of a good family in the North, had received introductions through the diplomatic representatives of his country.

His striking personality had always attracted attention, and he might have gone everywhere had he chosen.