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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stories in Light and Shadow, by Bret Harte This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Stories in Light and Shadow Author: Bret Harte Release Date: May 18, 2006 [EBook #2508] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW *** Produced by Donald Lainson STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW By Bret Harte From: "ARGONAUT EDITION" OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE, VOL. 13 P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK CONTENTS "UNSER KARL" UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY SEE YUP THE DESBOROUGH CONNECTIONS SALOMY JANE'S KISS THE MAN AND THE MOUNTAIN THE PASSING OF ENRIQUEZ STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW "UNSER KARL" The American consul for Schlachtstadt had just turned out of the broad Konig's Allee into the little square that held his consulate. Its residences always seemed to him to wear that singularly uninhabited air peculiar to a street scene in a theatre. The facades, with their stiff, striped wooden awnings over the windows, were of the regularity, color, and pattern only seen on the stage, and conversation carried on in the street below always seemed to be invested with that perfect confidence and security which surrounds the actor in his painted desert of urban perspective. Yet it was a peaceful change to the other byways and highways of Schlachtstadt which were always filled with an equally unreal and mechanical soldiery, who appeared to be daily taken out of their boxes of "caserne" or "depot" and loosely scattered all over the pretty linden-haunted German town. There were soldiers standing on street corners; soldiers staring woodenly into shop windows; soldiers halted suddenly into stone, like lizards, at the approach of Offiziere; Offiziere lounging stiffly four abreast, sweeping the pavement with their trailing sabres all at one angle. There were cavalcades of red hussars, cavalcades of blue hussars, cavalcades of Uhlans, with glittering lances and pennons--with or without a band--formally parading; there were straggling "fatigues" or "details" coming round the corners; there were dusty, businesslike columns of infantry, going nowhere and to no purpos
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