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    said ,, te My dear Charley , I am here in a predicament ; have the

    goodness to order off that swindling secretary Tusrnann , who stands before the door ,, so that I , the genuine secretary Tusmann , can ' t get into the house . " " I think , Mr . Tusmann ^ that you area confounded jackass , " said the man , in a hoarse voice ; and instantly I recognised the terrible goldsmith . The fright nearly overcame me ; I felt as I suppose a person would feel if tipsy ; I ( i

    staggered , and a cold sweat broke out on my forehead . Honourable professor , " said I , " I beg a million pardons that , in the darkness , I took you for a Charley . O , worthy sir , treat rne as you will , —call me plain Mr . Tusmann unceremoniously , —apostrophize me in any barbarous fashion you may think fit ; but , in the name of goodness , deliver me from the charm you have cast ( " upon me this night !" " Tusmann / ' answered the enchanter , " you can escape my charms , by swearing this very instant never to think of marrying Miss Albertine Vosswinkel . "

    6 may imagine , my dear counsellor , the impression this horrible proposition made upon me . " Most honourable professor , " said I , I am free to . confess that it was very wrong of Miss Albertine Vosswinkel , my betrothed , to be waltzing at this time of night with a young man , name unknown ; hut I cannot g ive her up ; I have the highest sentiments of respect and esteem for you , most honourable professor , but I must be allowed respectfully to state , that I will see ^ you first . " I had hardly finished speaking , when that cursed goldsmith hit me such a punch in the abdomen that it sent me whirling round , and , as I turned , thousands of secretary Tusmanns waltzed about hie . At last I fell senseless , and when I opened rny eyes again—O dear counsellor , pity thy old schoolfellow !—I found myself sitting upon the bronze statue of the great Elector , holding fast by the cold tail of the horse . Luckily the sentinel was ( Jozing , and I got down unseen , at the risk of breaking my neck or being shot . Then I fled here . '

    c hope , my dear friend / said the counsellor , ' you do not expect me to believe all this . Was ever such a thing heard of , particularly in a town so well li g hted and watched as Berlin !' ' My dear counsellor , into what errors do you fall , owing to your limited reading . If you had read the Microchromion Marchicum of Haftitius , rector of the two universities , Berlin and

    Cologne , you would know that many such strange things have happened here . ' ' I beg of you / replied the counsellor , to forget such superstitious follies . It were better to avow that you were rather tipsy , and that you climbed up , like a young student , on the statue of the Elector . The more I think of the two persons with whom you passed the night drinking , the move it appears to me t ^ at they were the old Jew , Manasseh , and the goldsmith , Leoi ^ ar ^

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    The Cfroiee . 191

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/47/