"'What; insinuate (INSINUIEREN), you scoundrel!' APRILL.

"'It is my Notarial Office; I must do it.' In spite of which the Freiherr von Plotho fell on me with all rage; grasped me by the front of the cloak, and said:-- PLOTHO.

"'Take it back, wilt thou!' And as I resisted doing so, he stuck it in upon me, and shoved it down with all violence between my coat and waistcoat; and, still holding me by the cloak, called to the two servants who had been there, 'Fling him down stairs!'-- which they, being discreet fellows, and in no flurry, did not quite, nor needed quite to do ('Must, sir, you see, unless!'), and so forced me out of the house; Excellenz Plotho retiring through his Anteroom, and his Body-servant, who at first had been on the stairs, likewise disappearing as I got under way,"-- and have to report, in such manner, to the Universe and Reichs Diet, with tears in my eyes.

[Preuss, ii.

397-401; in _Helden-Geschichte, _ iv.