The Grandidiers A Tale Of Berlin Life Volume 1

Author : Julius Rodenberg
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230015439
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Grandidiers; a Tale of Berlin Life Volume 1 written by Julius Rodenberg and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...opinion," said Herr Siichier, commencing to speak, delighted that as his father-in-law had laughed, he likewise need no longer impose any restraint on himself in this respect. " There is never any harm in what we say at table in joke;" and thereupon he burst out into so hearty a laugh, that the glass trembled in his hand. "Siichier! Siichier!" exclaimed his wife. But the former was now in his happiest mood. " Do you object to my liking the colonel?" he said. "Perhaps you're jealous." " You ought to be so," replied the lady, pursing up her pretty lips with an air of defiance. " Suppose I were to tell you that I am going to invite him to become a visitor at our house, for the future." " And what would you say if I told you that I had already asked him?" The colonel sat between the two, as if in Abraham's bosom. " Bertha has already invited me," said he, wiping his moustache with a napkin, " and I have accepted." It betokened, in fact, the second and higher grade of his friendship when he called ladies not only by their Christian names, but also without any of the customary prefixes of madame or miss. "' Bertha!" cried Herr Siichier, with another of those outbursts of laughter which made his wife so uneasy; " Bertha! he calls her Bertha. That is good, excellent." In the meantime, Herr Grandidier, with his eyes cast down, and indifferent as to what was going on, had again become silent. But it was evident that something was actively at work within him; his colour came and went, and now he himself tapped his glass. Every one looked up, astonished, as the little man at the upper end of the...