"Murder! Murder!" shouted the butterwoman; and forthwith every individual thing that could command a pair or two pair of legs ran out of the turnpike-house; the carriage of the princess drew up, to give the ladies a distant view of Mr.Schnackenberger engaged with the butterwoman; and Mr.Von Pilsen wheeled his horse round into a favourable station for seeing anything the ladies might overlook.
Rage gave the old butterwoman strength; she jumped up nimbly, and seized Mr.
Schnackenberger so stoutly by the laps of his coat, that he vainly endeavoured to extricate himself from her grasp.

At this crisis, up came Juno, and took her usual side in such disputes.

But to do this with effect, Juno found it necessary first of all to tear off the coat lap; for, the old woman keeping such firm hold of it, how else could Juno lay her down on her back--set her paws upon her breast--and then look up to her master, as if asking for a certificate of having acquitted herself to his satisfaction?
[23] In the original--'eine marketenderin,' a female sutler: but I have altered it, to save an explanation of what the old sutler was after.
To rid himself of spectators, Mr.Jeremiah willingly paid the old woman the full amount of her demand, and then returned to the city.

It disturbed him greatly, however, that the princess should thus again have seen him under circumstances of disgrace.

Anxious desire to lay open his heart before her--and to place himself in a more advantageous light, if not as to his body, yet at all events as to his intellect--determined him to use his utmost interest with her to obtain a private audience; 'at which,' thought he, 'I can easily beg her pardon for having overslept the appointed hour.'.