Madame Fontaine assumed the regular management of our domestic affairs.

Fritz and Minna found sufficient attraction in each other's society.

The new week was just beginning, and our inquiries after Mr.Engelman had thus far led to no result--when I received a letter containing news of the fugitive, confided to me under strict reserve.
The writer of the letter proved to be a married younger brother of Mr.
Engelman, residing at Bingen, on the Rhine.
"I write to you, dear sir, at my brother's request.

My wife and I are doing all that we can to relieve and comfort him, but his mind has not yet sufficiently recovered to enable him to write to you himself.

He desires to thank you heartily for your sympathy, at the most trying period of his life; and he trusts to your kindness to let him hear, from time to time, of Mr.Keller's progress towards recovery, and of the well-being of the business.