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Show -269- Their host did i t for him? "Tonight's no night to talk shop?" he said. "We do that a l l year?" "I agree;" the Professor said. He remembered? then7 that the young instructor's wife had gone back to Germany the past summer? He asked how she had enjoyed her stay? "not much?" the man told him. "Her mother was sick most of the time - and she missed the children?" Speaking of Germany? the Professor remembered that one guestyhe usually met a t these parties of his neighbor was an Austrian emigre? now an attorney, with whom the Professor usually spoke German, not because the man did not speak good English? but because the f i r s t time they had met the Professor lapsed once into German? and the lawyer had complimented him on his fluency? Now whenever they met? he addressed the Professor in German and they used that language for most of their conversation? Now, as the young instructor gave more details of his wife's t r i p to Hamburg", the Professor glanced around to see if he could catch sight of the Viennese attorney? He saw him f i n a l l y ? leaning against the mantel of the large fireplace, where a low f i r e was gloxring? By now he had finished his drink? and the host noticed? " I ' l l get you another?" he offered? "No?" the Professor said? I can get i t myself?" He looked for his wife to see if she wanted another drink? |