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It appeared that Geht himtedious! The fantastic, misty northern element in his stories was too remote from her clear, southern nature 'It's all fairy-tales, all written for children!' she declared with souely conscious, too, of the lack of poetry in Hoffmann But there was one of his stories, the title of which she had forgotten, which she greatly liked;of this story that she liked; the end she had either not read or had forgotten The story was about a young irl of striking beauty, a Greek; she is acco ht; she looks at hi hi back into the restaurant, finds there neither the girl nor the old man; he rushes off in pursuit of her, continually comes upon fresh traces of her, follows them up, and can never by any irl has vanished for hiet her iht that all the happiness of his life, perhaps, has slipped through his fingers

Hoffmann does not end his story quite in that way; but so it had taken shape, so it had remained, in Ges and such partings happen oftener in the world than we suppose'

Sanin was silentand soon after he began talkingof Herr Klüber It was the first time he had referred to him; he had not once remembered him till that instant

Ge the nail of her forefinger and fixing her eyes away Then she began to speak in praise of her betrothed, alluded to the excursion he had planned for the next day, and, glancing swiftly at Sanin, was silent again

Sanin did not knohat subject to turn the conversation

Emil ran in noisily and waked Frau LenoreSanin was relieved by his appearance

Frau Lenore got up from her low chair Pantaleone came in and announced that dinner was ready The friend of the faer, and servant also performed the duties of cook