But I can tell you, sir, that you do Madame von Rosen prodigal injustice.' 'You can tell me!' said the Doctor shrewdly.

'Have you, tried?
have you been riding the marches ?' The blood came into Otto's face.
'Ah!' cried Gotthold, 'look at your wife and blush! There's a wife for a man to marry and then lose! She's a carnation, Otto.

The soul is in her eyes.' 'You have changed your note for Seraphina, I perceive,' said Otto.
'Changed it!' cried the Doctor, with a flush.

'Why, when was it different?
But I own I admired her at the council.

When she sat there silent, tapping with her foot, I admired her as I might a hurricane.
Were I one of those who venture upon matrimony, there had been the prize to tempt me! She invites, as Mexico invited Cortez; the enterprise is hard, the natives are unfriendly--I believe them cruel too--but the metropolis is paved with gold and the breeze blows out of paradise.