"All his joy is in his books.

Many a day he never asks for Rosalie and me.

He reads too much, and that's why he looks like a man of sixty.

Why will he not go with us on Sunday ?" "I will, if you like," said Bernhard, mournfully; adding soon after, "Do you know a young man of the name of Wohlfart, in Schroeter's house ?" "No," said his father, decidedly.
"Perhaps you do, Rosalie.

He is handsome and refined-looking; I think you must have met him." "Hardly, if he is in an office." "Our Rosalie dances chiefly with officers and artists," explained her mother.
"He is a clever and a delightful man," continued Bernhard; "I am going to study English with him, and rejoice to have made his acquaintance." "He shall be invited," decreed Ehrenthal; "if he pleases our Bernhard, he shall be welcome to our house.