And, since we have begun this evening's dance with explanations, let me further explain, that Mr.Anton Wohlfart is the son of a late accountant in Ostrau, and that I shall consider any further allusion to this misunderstanding as an insult to my most intimate friend.

And now, my dear lady, I am engaged to your daughter for the first quadrille, and can positively wait no longer." In the course of the evening Lieutenant von Zernitz came up and said, "Fink, you have made fun of us, and I am sorry to be under the necessity of demanding satisfaction." "Be rational, and do nothing of the kind," replied Fink.

"We have shot together so often, it would be a pity now to take each other for a mark." Fink being by far the best shot in the room, Herr von Zernitz allowed himself to be convinced.
Anton had vanished from the fashionable circle like a falling star, and he never reappeared therein.

True, it did occur to Frau von Baldereck, rather late in the day, that it would be proper occasionally to invite the young man, to prove that he had not been tolerated merely as--what he was not, and some other families thought the same; but as these invitations came, as before said, rather late, and as Anton declined them, his fate was that of many a greater man--society forgot him.

For a short time the two chief hatchers of the grand report, Messrs.