"'I don't know that Town.' [No wonder, thought I!] KING.

"'Where did you study ?' EGO.

"'At Gottingen: Haller was my teacher.' KING.

"'What is M.Haller doing now ?' EGO.

"'He is concluding his literary career with a romance.' [USONG had just come out;--no mortal now reads a word of it; and the great Haller is dreadfully forgotten already!] KING.