On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
and theft'teUM ifoh ^ sferibugly tfhtfiigftfc bf M ^ f % i 6 f ItK Alfc ^ r tine .- Edrftutid Swbre * that 1 it >! Wai ' ffie ^ 'ff « tl l ff * Wrd ^ his ' $ / ul Then LeortattJ prdmiSed t # We 1 $ Hiiti tb cut c ^ hisVr ^ kf . ; "' We have seeii , itt 't * le"ffi st - cha ^ tef , - how tfteVoir 3 ^ in ? tri ctfm meftced operatibris gainst the private secretary , Tusni ^ hh / ^ ¦* ; . . , ? , t ¦" ¦ f ^ ;! ¦ ' . •; . ' . * * ' - * ¦ ' . ¦* ¦ ' . - . : . ¦ ' * ' - * * ' i ¦ Chapter III ,
After what the courteous reader has already been told respecting the private secretary , Tusrnann , it will only be necessary to add that he w ^ is rather short , bald-pated , a little atwist , and very passably ugly . His coat was cut after the antique , his waistcoat was frightfully long , his trowsers bulged out at the knees ,
and his bobts creaked ; yet , notwithstanding all those abominations , there was an ex pression of goodness in his face which disposed people in his favour . Reading was his chief delight . He read everywhere ; walking , running , riding . Above all , j £ lr . Tustnann had a shocking good memory , he was a sec 6 nd Magliabefchi . >
The counsellor Melchior Vosswinkel had been at the school of the Grey Monks with the private secretary , and that event established a firm friendship betwixt rhem . Now it came to pass , that on Miss Albertine ' s last birthday , Mr . Tusmann kissed her hand , wishing her happy returns , with such astonishing ' Bjfd ' unsuspected gallantly , that , at the very moment , the worthy c 6 uii-1
sellor conceived the idea of marrying his daughter to hisold schoolfellow . When the project was communicated t 6 Mr . Tusmannj he was , at first , very much alarmed . Afterwards ; hofrever , he became reconciled to it , and considered it quite as a settled thing , though Albertine had no idea of the good fortuhe which awaited hen
Early mi the morning which followed the nightof Mr . ' Tusmann ' & strange adventure at the tavern in Alekander-pl&ce , he precipitated himself pale and wan into the chamber of Mr . Vdsswinkel . The counsellor was not a little frightened , tor Mr : "i ^ frsmann never visited him at that hour , and every thill g about him announced something shocking .
' My dear private secretary / said he , ' what ' s the tnatter ?—what has happened ?' Mr . Tusmann threw himself , exhausted , into an arm-fch&ir
aiul , after taking breath a minute or two , said , in a trenlbltog voice , * My dear counsellor , as you see me now , in 'these clothes ; afid with the politic wisdom of Thomasius in my 'pocket ; di > ' I come from Spandau-street , where I have beeh Walking Since
' « midnight . ' -..: ¦ •• • / ( r Then Mn Ti ^ maian related further to the iotiii ^ eUor « ll thut had passed the preceding night , from his meeting with the won-
Untitled Article
Ttfethoide . 189
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/45/
-