had been obliged to depart suddenly appeared to prove true."
"I will wait 'till it strikes eleven!" said I to myself, and then I will return home, if he should not be here." The bell of the adjacent steeple tolled eleven and the stranger was not yet come."
"I will stay fifteen minutes longer, and then return to the inn."
"These fifteen minutes expired likewise, without his making his appearance: The stillness of midnight surrounded me, and nobody appeared; I went back."
"I was not gone ten steps when my dear stranger came walking towards me with hasty paces; nobody could be more rejoiced than I was, and forgetting entirely that I had waited so long, I ran towards him. He shook me heartily by the hand, and said, "I am sorry that I have kept you waiting so long."
"I
