"The watchman should receive a present from every one!" said they,
when the Francaise was at an end. "He is an excellent man who thus
keeps order in the street, so that one can enjoy a little dance."

"These are honest people's children!" said the watchman to himself,
whilst he with much pleasure thrust the money into his leathern
purse.

All was again quiet in the street; the violin was also silent.



CHAPTER III

"Who looks into the shadowy realm of my heart?"
A. V. CHAMISSO.

In the former chapter we heard mention made of a young student,
Otto Thostrup, a clever fellow, with nine prae caeteris, as his
comrades said, but also of a proud spirit, of which he must be
broken. Not at the disputations, which have been already mentioned,
will we make his acquaintance, although there we must be filled
with respect for the good Latin scholar; not in large companies,
where his handsome exterior and his speaking, melancholy glance
must make him interesting; as little in the pit of the Opera
although his few yet striking observations there would show him to
be a very intellectual young man; but we will seek him out for the
first time at the house of his friend, the young Baron Wilhelm. It
is the beginning of November: we find them both with their pipes in
their mouths; upon the table lie Tibullus and Anacreon, which they