I admit that it is true, that had Gretchen been plain, it would not have been worth the trouble.

But she had too heavenly a face, too wonderful an eye, too delicious a mouth, not to note her with concern.
I did not see Gretchen again that day; but as I was watching the moon climb up, thinking of her and smoking a few pipes as an incense to her shrine, I heard her voice beneath my window.

It was accompanied by the bass voice of the inn-keeper.
"But he is a journalist.

Is it safe?
Is anything safe from them ?" came to my ears in a worried accent, a bass.
So the inn-keeper, too, was a Socialist! Said an impatient contralto: "So long as I have no fear, why should you ?" "Ach, you will be found out and dragged back!" was the lamentation in a throaty baritone.

Anxiety raises a bass voice at least two pitches.
"If you would but return to the hills, where there is absolute safety!" "No; I will not go back there, where everything is so dull and dead.