flurry you. Uncle Hatto has sent to us a document which admits you
as a partner into the bank. If; therefore, you wish to go on with
our engagement, I suppose there is nothing now to cause any very
great delay.

"ISA."


The letter was very simple, and Isa, when she had written it,
subsided into all her customary quiescence. Indeed, when Herbert
came to the Ludwigs Strasse, not in the evening as he was bidden to
do, but instantly, leaving his own dinner uneaten, and coming upon
the Heines in the midst of their dinner, she was more than usually
tranquil. But his love was, as she had told him, boisterous. He
could not contain himself, and embraced them all, and then scolded
Isa because she was so calm.

"Why should I not be calm," said she, "now that I know you are
happy?"

The house in the Schrannen Platz still goes by the name of Heine
Brothers, but the mercantile world in Bavaria, and in some cities
out of Bavaria, is well aware that the real pith and marrow of the
business is derived from the energy of the young English partner.