Tales of a Traveler Author:Washington Irving General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: American book company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / Short Stories Humor / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.... more » When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " That's more than I can tell. Where he passed the rest of the night was a secret he never disclosed. In fact, though he had seen much service, he was but indifferently acquainted with geography, and apt to make blunders in his travels about inns at night, which it would have puzzled him sadly to account for in the morning." " Was he ever apt to walk in his sleep ? " said the knowing old gentleman. " Never that I heard of." There was a little pause after this rigmarole Irish romance, when the old gentleman with the haunted head observed that the stories hitherto related had rather a burlesque tendency. " I recollect an adventure, however," added he, " which I heard of during a residence at Paris, for the truth of which I can undertake to vouch, and which is of a very grave and singular nature." ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT. ON a stormy night, in the tempestuous times of the French Revolution, a young German was returning to his lodgings, at a late hour, across the old part of Paris. The lightning gleamed, and the loud claps of thunder rattled through the lofty narrow streets -- but I should first tell you something about this young German. Gottfried Wolfgang was a young man of good family. He had studied for some time at Gottingen,1 but being of a visionary and enthusiastic character, he had wandered into those wild and speculative doctrines which have so often bewildered German students. His secluded life, his intense application, and the singular natu...« less