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Mr . Tusmapn was a man $ iiigularly moderate . His only
relaxation was to go evqry evening to , the coffee ^ house , to hear the news and drink a , glass of fyeer . He never drank wine , except on a Sunday evening , when , ' he took a glass of malaga with a biscuit . As for staying ; out , late , a $ night , it was a scandal he utterly avoided 3 therefore * it was niost unaccountable that he allowed himself to be drawn , at a rapid pace , towards the splendid new tavern in Alexander-place .
Whepf they entered the room they only found one man in it , who sat at a table upon whicli stood a large glass filled with Rhine wine . The wrinkles on his face showed that time had been hard at work digging . His sly and penetrating looks and his long beard certified him to be a Jew who remained faithful to the customs of his ancestors . He was clothed in an antique style , in the fashion of 1720 or 1730 .
But the stranger whom Mr . Tusmann had met was still more singular to look at . He was a tall man , very thin , but muscular , and , apparently about fifty years of age . His face had been handsome , and his large eyes still sparkled with the fire of youth under two thick
black eyebrows . His forehead was wide and high , his nose aquiline , his mouth thin-lipped and well closed , his chin square and dimpled . ; But it was his clothes , cut in the fashion of the sixteenth / century , his sepulchral voice , and his strange manners , which , doubtless , inspired those in his presence with awe . The stranger nodded to the old man at the table , as to an old acqu aintanee , and said ,
6 1 have not seen you for a long time , how have you been V * Pretty well , pretty well , ' answered the old man in a grumbling tone ; ' always active , always ready for business . ' * I rather doubt that , ' said the stranger , laughing slowly ; and (then he ordered the waiter to bring a bottle of old French wine . ' Honourable Mr . Privy Counsellor , ' said Mr . Tusmann , 1 never drink '
' Mr . Tusmann , ' interrupted the stranger , * I am neither privy counsellor nor private secretary ; I am no , more nor less than an artist who works in the noble metals and precious stones , and my name is Leonard . ' ' A goldsmith and jeweller / muttered Mr . Tusmann to himself ; and then he reflected that he mig ht have known that the stranger was not a privy counsellor , for his strange costume very little suited a grave and titled personage . Leonard and Mr . Tusraann both sat down to the table with the old man , who received them with a contortion of mouth , which had some very faint resemblance to a smile . ; After that Mr . Tusmann , yielding to the pressing invitations of Leonard , h « ul * drunka few glasses of wine , a little colour appeared on his usually pale cheeks , his manner became more
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The Choice . 181
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/37/
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