The Erckmann-Chatrian Megapack: 20 Classic Novels And Short Stories
“said Caspar, “more than my fondness for Sébaldus Dick’s tavern, it is that there is an artist in the family!“Dame Catherine would have been glad to see me an advocate, a priest, or a councillor. If I had become a councillor, like Monsieur Andreas Van Berghem; if I had snuffled out long and weary sentences, caressing my lace bands with dainty finger-tips, with what esteem and veneration would not that worthy woman have regarded monsieur her nephew! She would have greeted Monsieur le Conseiller C...aspar with profound respect; she would have set before me her best preserves, she would have poured out for me, in the midst of her circle of gossips, just a drop of Muscadel of the year XI. with—“Pray take this, monsieur le conseiller; I have but two bottles left!”Anything that monsieur my nephew Caspar, conseiller at the court of justice, could do would certainly have been perfectly right and suitable, and quite perfect in its way.Alas for the vanity of human wishes! the poor woman’s ambition was never to be gratified.MoreLess
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