The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-01-13
THE ROYAL STUDENT.

In the past century the University OF
Heidelbnrg differed but little from that
Of tho present day, save in point Of num-
Ders : the same mixture of ranks and
classes and the same staggering, half
military looking personages, pipe in
mouth, were then, rs now, to be seen mt
all times parading the principal streets.
The student Mt German university
is strange being, IN odd compound Of
duelling, smoking, billard-playing, love-
making, and study but still there are
some whose object is study alone, who
lead q quiet, regular life, and pass
through their terms unoticed, save by
their immediate class-fell ,ws aud just
such an one was karl Leibetz.
He lodged at tho house of widow
lady, who had hitherto declined receiv-
ing any OF the students, her reasons
being two-fold first, she had where
withal to make heryenrly expenses meet
without much straining-and secondly,
her care and solicitude for the welfare
of the pretty AdcIine,, her only daugh-
Tor, clearly pointed out to her that a
gay and rafting student would Ill accord
with her arrangements.
Her scruplcs were, however, removed
by q note from Mr.. Relsthaus, the prin-
Opal banker, requesting to know wheth-
er she would have any hjcction to oreceive
as inmate young man whose con-
nections were of the highest reepectn-
bility, and for whom he would enter
INTO any guarantee she might desire.
The recommendation of the worthy
banker was not to he refused, and
reply in the Affirmative, stating how
happy Madame Hartman would feel in
receiving any friend of Mr.. Reisthaus,
was immediately sent, and in duo course
Mr.. Karl Leibetz arrived.
In short time Madame Hartman
began to find that MIR. Karl was a re-
markably pleasant young man; he was
80 quiet, that she could scarcely believe
she had received any addition in her
household; there was no smoking from
morn till night, no bottles of beer strew-
ed about the rooms in all directions, and
no carousing all night with his fellow
students in fact, she began to consider
HIM moro as friendly guest than u
lodger.
On his first arrival, I'll o pretty Adeline,
whose expectations and curiosity had
been excited in tho highest degree, had
expressed herself rather disappointed {;
there was chilling hauteur about him
which she could not at all understand !;
but in short time this wore away, and
Adeline, began partly to concide with
her mothers opinion, in thinking him
very agreeable, and partly to 60 rather
further than Madame Hartman had done,
finding him very handsome young
man.
believe it to bo general rule with all
narrators of Historiettcs," never to
allow young couple to become domic-
lied under tho Same roof without engen-
dering tho tender passion. and l mean
shortly, in n work of fiction, boldly to
strike out now reading for myself ;
but ut the present time, as have to do
Will stuDDoIlt llctS, lnusI w COuGellb
to jog Oh in the old-fashioned way, and
admit that there was some truth in the
surmiscs OF M attachment existing be-
tween Mr.. Karl and the pretty Adeline;
and perhaps it was not so wonderful
that such should bo the case--all things
consideration Adeline was, in honest
truth, remarkably pretty girl, with a
something so piquante and lively about
her, that you were lured away by her
destinations, ere you had time altogether
to make up your mind that You were
doing anything more than considering
her Ms O. very agreeable sort Of person.
AS for MIR. Karl, I can't, as an honest