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He had not finished dressing, when a waiter announced the arrival of two gentleood-looking and well-grown young man, with a handsome face, was Herr Karl Klüber, the betrothed of the lovely Gemma

One may safely assule shop a nified, and as affable as Herr Kl&uuet-up was on a level with the dignity of his deportance--a little affected and stiff, it is true, in the English style (he had spent two years in England)--but still fascinating, elegance of his lance that this handsoht-up and superbly washed young man was accustomed to obey his superior and to command his inferior, and that behind the counter of his shop he must infallibly inspire respect even in his customers! Of his supernatural honesty there could never be a particle of doubt: one had but to look at his stiffly starched collars! And his voice, it appeared, was just what one would expect; deep, and of a self-confident richness, but not too loud, with positively a certain caressing note in its tiive orders to assistants under his control: 'Show the crimson Lyons velvet!' or, 'Hand the lady a chair!'

Herr Kl&uu himself; as he did so, he boith such loftiness, reeable air, and drew his heels together with such polished courtesy that no one could fail to feel, 'that man has both linen and moral principles of the first quality!' The finish of his bare right hand--(the left, in a suede glove, held a hat shining like a looking-glass, with the right glove placed within it)--the finish of the right hand, proffered modestly but resolutely to Sanin, surpassed all belief; each finger-nail was a perfection in its oay! Then he proceeded to explain in the choicest German that he was anxious to express his respect and his indebtedness to the foreign gentlenal a service to his future kinsman, the brother of his betrothed; as he spoke, he waved his left hand with the hat in it in the direction of E away to the , put his finger in his mouth

Herr Klüber added that he should estee for the foreign gentleman Sanin, with sohtedthat the service was not worth speaking ofand he begged his guests to sit down Herr Kl&uu his coat-tails, sat down on a chair; but he perched there so lightly and with such a transitory air that no one could fail to realise, 'this ain in an instant' And he did in fact fly up again quickly, and advancing with two discreet little dance-steps, he announced that to his regret he was unable to stay any longer, as he had to hasten to his shop--business before everything! but as the next day was Sunday, he had, with the consent of Frau Lenore and Fr&aued a holiday excursion to Soden, to which he had the honour of inviting the foreign gentlerace the party with his presence Sanin did not refuse so to grace it; and Herr Kl&uu once reen trousersa spot of cheerful colour, and his brand-new boots squeaking cheerfully as he moved