I am merely warning you." My friend himself was inclined to pooh-pooh my fears; but his wife thinking it better not to run any risk of having the party broken up by the police at the very beginning of the evening, they divided, arranging to come together again in the theatre lobby.
Another passion you must restrain in Germany is that prompting you to throw things out of window.

Cats are no excuse.

During the first week of my residence in Germany I was awakened incessantly by cats.

One night I got mad.

I collected a small arsenal--two or three pieces of coal, a few hard pears, a couple of candle ends, an odd egg I found on the kitchen table, an empty soda-water bottle, and a few articles of that sort,--and, opening the window, bombarded the spot from where the noise appeared to come.