Mrs. Suffrin's Smelling-Bottle [pp. 449-456]

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MRS. SUFFRIN'S SMELLING-BOTTLE.
BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE.
I am bound to say the first advances were tacle), he stared at me so hard and with an
I.-THE LADY OF THE SMELLING-BOTTLE.
.from him; had the matter depended upon me, expression of such amazement, apprehension,
N the quay at Trieste, in the midst of we should not have made much progress, for and settled dislike, in his prominent blue eyes,
our luggage, stood Mrs. Suffrill, Herr his behavior during the early part of the jour- that, from being annoyed and nervous, I final
"The figures had been arrested, some fifty centuries previous, in the very midst of a deadly contest,"
Rauberkerl, and I, awaiting the arrival of the ney impressed me with any thing but confi- ly became uneasy. When I had stood it as
small boat which was to convey us to the yes- dence in him. long as I thought it incumbent on me to do, I
sel in the offing. It seemed to be accident, When he first entered the railway-carriage ventured to remonstrate. To my surprise, he
rather than design, that had made us travel- in which I had established myself with the at once begged my pardon with much effuling-companions. I had formed Rauberkerl's vain hope of seclusion, and caught sight of sion, explained that he was near-sighted, and
acquaintance during an endless ride by rail my face (which at that time was not, I flat- launched forthwith into conversation. He
from Paris to Berlin; rather, he had mine, for tered myself, a particularly repulsive spec- turned out an entertaining fellow, of consider