“ Sind Sie rasend? ” he exclaimed, brandishing his stick, and, apparently, beginning to feel nervous. Perhaps it was my costume which intimidated him, for I was well and fashionably dressed, after the manner of a man who belongs to indisputably good society.

“ Ja wo-o-ohl! ” cried I again with all my might with a longdrawn rolling of the ohl sound after the fashion of the Berliners (who constantly use the phrase “ Ja wohl! ” in conversation, and more or less prolong the syllable ohl according as they desire to express different shades of meaning or of mood).