He is a shameful, good-for-nothing seducer." "He is dishonorable," cried the general's wife--"a dishonorable man, who has misused our confidence.

We confided to him our daughter to teach, and paid him for it.

He improved the opportunity to make a declaration of love, and stole the time from us to infatuate the heart of our daughter with flattery, and from his pupil win a bride." "Oh, unworthy, shameful slander!" cried Marie, her eyes flashing with anger.

"You well know that it is a vile scandal, that Moritz was no paid teacher.

If he had been--if he had felt obliged to yield to the sad necessity of being paid for his valuable time, because he was poor, and forced to live by his intellect, he was a free man, and had the right to love whom he chose.