After what I have just heard, I dare do so no longer, lest I should thus substantiate the idle reports I have mentioned, and be suspected of imposing upon your hospitality.

Therefore I have only to thank you sincerely for your past kindness, and to take my leave." The whole party was struck dumb.

Anton bowed, and turned to go.
Just then there flew out from the paralyzed circle a brilliant form, and taking both his hands in hers, Lenore looked at him with tearful eyes, and said, in a broken voice, "Farewell!" The door closed, and all was over.
When life returned in the room he had left, the first words audible were the baroness's whisper to her daughter, "Lenore, you have forgotten yourself." "Do not blame her," said the baron, aloud, with great presence of mind; "the daughter only did what the father should have done.

The young man has behaved admirably, and we can not but esteem him." A murmur, however, began to arise from different groups.

"Quite a dramatic scene," said the lady of the house; "but who then said--" "Ay, who was it that said," interposed Von Toennchen.