Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Author:John Oxenford General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: Wyman-Fogg co. Subjects: Drama / Continental European Literary Criticism / European / German Poetry / Continental European 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: ELEVENTH BOOK. After I had, in that bower of Seseuheim, finished my tale, in which the ordinary and the impossible so agreeably alternated, I perceived that my hearers, who had already shown peculiar sympathy, were now enchanted in the highest degree by my singular narrative. They pressed me urgently to write down the tale, that they might often repeat it by reading it among themselves, and to others. I promised this the more willingly, as I thus hoped to gain a pretext for repeating my visit, and for an opportunity of forming a closer connection. The party separated for a moment; and all were inclined to feel, that, after a day spent in so lively a manner, the evening might fall rather flat. From this anxiety I was freed by my friend, who asked permission to take leave at once, in the name of us both, because, as an industrious academical citizen, regular in his studies, he wished to pass the night at Drusenheim, and to be early in the morning at Strasburg. ) We both reached our eight-quarters in silence, -- I, because I felt a grapple on my heart, which drew me back; he, because he had something else on his mind, which he told me as soon as we had arrived. " It is strange," he began, " that you should just hit upon this tale . Did not you remark that it made quite a peculiar . impression ?" " Nay," answered I, " how could I help observing that the elder one laughed more than was consistent at certain passages, that the younger one shook her head, that all ...« less