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Sanin stayed on after dinner too They did not let hio, still on the saan to decrease, they proposed going out into the garden to drink coffee in the shade of the acacias Sanin consented He felt very happy In the quietly hts, and he gave hiof thethe day before How irl as Gemma meant to him! He would shortly part fro as they were borne, as in Uhland's song, in one skiff over the sea of life, untossed by telad And everything seeer Frau Lenore offered to play against him and Pantaleone at 'tresette,' instructed hiame, and won a few kreutzers from him, and he ell content

Pantaleone, at Elia, perforlia jumped over a stick 'spoke,' that is, barked, sneezed, shut the door with his nose, fetched his master's trodden-down slippers; and, finally, with an old cap on his head, he portrayed Marshal Bernadotte, subjected to the bitterest upbraidings by the Emperor Napoleon on account of his treachery Napoleon's part was, of course, performed by Pantaleone, and very faithfully he performed it: he folded his arms across his chest, pulled a cocked hat over his eyes, and spoke very gruffly and sternly, in French--and heavens! what French! Tartaglia sat before his sovereign, all huddled up, with dejected tail, and eyes blinking and twitching in confusion, under the peak of his cap which was stuck on awry; from time to time when Napoleon raised his voice, Bernadotte rose on his hind paws 'Fuori, traditore!' cried Napoleon at last, forgetting in the excess of his wrath that he had to sustain his rôle as a Frenchman to the end; and Bernadotte proain with a joyful bark, as though to announce that the perforhed, and Sanin , continual, soft laugh, with very droll little shrieks Sanin was fairly enchanted by that laugh--he could have kissed her for those shrieks!

Night caood-bye several ti several times to all, 'till to-morrow!'--E with hi, at another thoughtful, calm, and even indifferent--but always attractive! Her eyes, at one tiht as day, at another tiht, seee say across all other ies and recollections