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The nights in Dreiberg during September are often chill The heavy ranite clifts and spread over the city, as-la theless than aht

Carar on the little balcony fronting his , found it necessary to put on his light overcoat, though he perfectly knew that he was in no manner forced to smoke on the balcony But the truth was he wanted a clear vision of the palace and the lighted s thereof, and of one in particular He had no more sense than Tom-fool, the abetter of follies She was as far renet shall ever draw the needle, and a woman shall ever draw a rew more impossible day by day, and he railed at hihed and teetered his legs A sighforward, yet it is as essential as life itself It is the safety-valve to every e in tears One sighs in entering the world and in leaving it, perhaps in protest A child sighs for the hed for the Princess Hildegarde, understanding It was sigh or curse, and the latter mode of expression wastes oes; they dined and wined him and elected him honorary member to their clubs; they patted hiligent toleration that turned every pleasure into rust

Arthur Carmichael was Irish He was born in America, educated there and elsewhere, a little while in Paris, a little while at Bonn, and, like all Irish foot; for the man who is homeless by choice has a subtle poison in his blood He was at Bonn when the Civil War caht with all the ardor that had made his forebears famous in the service of the worthless Stuarts It wasn't a question with hi the penny; he knehich side he wished to fight He joined the cavalry of the North, and haht his way to a captaincy He ounded five tiht eye was still weak from the effects of a powder explosion; and whenever it bothered hi, as all soldiers do, the burden of spectacles At the end of the conflict he returned to Washington