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Title: The Children of the World

Author: Paul Heyse

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Language: English

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THE CHILDREN OF

THE WORLD

BY

PAUL HEYSE

"The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the
children of light."

NEW YORK
WORTHINGTON CO., 747 BROADWAY
1890

Copyright, 1889, By
WORTHINGTON CO.

Barr-Dinwiddie
Printing and Book-Binding Co.,
Jersey City, N. J.

THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD.

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I.

A few years ago, in the Dorotheen-strasse, in the midst of the Latin
Quarter of Berlin, whose quiet, student-like appearance threatens to
become effaced by the growing elegance of the capital, a small, narrow,
unpretending two-story house, stood humbly, as if intimidated, between
its broad-shouldered neighbors, though every year it received a washing
of a delicate pink hue, and recently had even had a new lightning-rod
affixed to its ancient gable roof. The owner, an honest master
shoemaker, had in the course of time accumulated money enough to have
comfortably established himself in a new and far more elegant dwelling,
but he had experienced beneath this sharply sloping roof, all t