r none of them again.

"Do you want to put on your uniform at once?" asked Sonnenkamp.

"No, not now; but I want to go home soon, as soon as we can, back to
the villa; home, home!"

Sonnenkamp promised all should be as he desired.

The Professorin soon fell in with some young people whom Roland's
clothes just fitted, and he exclaimed with delight when, he heard it.--

"That is good; now my clothes will go about the streets until I am
there again myself; I shall be represented sevenfold."

He desired his father to express his thanks to all the persons who had
so kindly shown an interest in him, a duty which Sonnenkamp would
readily have performed without this admonition. It afforded the best
possible way, better than the most brilliant entertainment, of coming
in contact with the aristocracy.

With his handsomest carriage and horses, Sonnenkamp drove through the
whole city. His wife had refused all his entreaties that she would
accompany him; but he succeeded in inducing the Professorin to be his
companion. She, also, refused at first, but yielded to Roland's
persuasions. It was the first request, as he said, that he had asked of
her since his return to life, and she should and must gratify him by
going with his father.

In proportion to the pain it cost the noble lady to make her
reappearance before the world in such companionship, was the ease with
which all doors flew open, as if by magic, wherever Lootz showed the
cards of the Professorin and Sonnenkamp.

The lady herself was often unconscious that this was the effect of her
presence; she only knew that she was tightening between herself and
Sonnenkamp the bonds from which she would gladly be free, and, whenever
she returned to the carriage, she begged him not to say so much about
her motherly care of Roland. Sonnenkamp, who was looked upon as of
quite secondary importance by the persons visited, skilfully contrived
to make himself the central point of the conversation by praising the
Professorin's nobleness of spirit, and enlarging upon his own great
happiness in being allowed connection with such a family.

On this excursion Sonnenkamp tasted the best pleasure of which he was
capable; for his highest pleasure was in hypocrisy, and in the luxury
of its exercise, he forgot his deep-rooted indignation at the pride of
the resident families, who were now obliged to receive him as an equal.
Where he hitherto had been permitted only a few hasty and unmeaning
w