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Who does not knohat a Gers and pieces of cinnamon, boiled beef dry as cork, hite fat attached, slimy potatoes, soft beetroot and ar, a roast joint with ja of the nature of a pudding with sourish red sauce; but to make up, the beer and wine first-rate! With just such a dinner the tavernkeeper at Soden regaled his customers The dinner, itself, however, went off satisfactorily No special liveliness was perceptible, certainly; not even when Herr Klüber proposed the toast 'What we like!' (Was wir lieben!) But at least everything was decorous and seemly After dinner, coffee was served, thin, reddish, typically Gerallantry, asked Gear But at this point suddenly so occurred, unexpected, and decidedly unpleasant, and even unsee several officers of the garrison of the Maine Froether it was easy to perceive that they were struck by Gemma's beauty; one of them, who had probably stayed in Frankfort, stared at her persistently, as at a figure faot up, and glass in hand--all the officers had been drinking hard, and the cloth before them was croith bottles--approached the table at which Ge flaxen-hairedand even attractive face, but his features were distorted with the wine he had drunk, his cheeks were twitching, his blood-shot eyes wandered, and wore an insolent expression His companions at first tried to hold hio, interested apparently to see what he would do, and hoould end Slightly unsteady on his legs, the officer stopped before Ge voice, in which, in spite of hile could be discerned, he articulated, 'I drink to the health of the prettiest confectioner in all Frankfort, in all the world (he elass), and in return I take this flower, picked by her divine little fingers!' He took from the table a rose that lay beside Gemma's plate At first she was astonished, alarmed, and turned fearfully whitethen alarnation; she suddenly crimsoned all over, to her very hair--and her eyes, fastened directly on the offender, at the saloom, and burned with the fire of irrepressible fury The officerunintelligible, bowed, and walked back to his friends They greeted hih, and faint applause