. Modern stories. ock double knocks at our door. No, it was nt the wind; there it came again very hard,and — what was particularly astounding — the knockerseemed to be in a hurry, and not in the least afraid ofthe consequences. Gluck went to the window, openedit, and put his head out to see who it was. It was the most extraordinary looking little gentle-man he had ever seen in his life. He had a very largenose, slightly brass-colored; his cheeks were very roundand very red, and might have warranted a suppositionthat he had been blowing a refractory fire for the lasteight-and-forty hours; his e
. Modern stories. ock double knocks at our door. No, it was nt the wind; there it came again very hard,and — what was particularly astounding — the knockerseemed to be in a hurry, and not in the least afraid ofthe consequences. Gluck went to the window, openedit, and put his head out to see who it was. It was the most extraordinary looking little gentle-man he had ever seen in his life. He had a very largenose, slightly brass-colored; his cheeks were very roundand very red, and might have warranted a suppositionthat he had been blowing a refractory fire for the lasteight-and-forty hours; his eyes twinkled merrily throughlong silky eyelashes, his mustaches curled twice roundlike a corkscrew on each side of his mouth, and his hair,of a curious mixed pepper-and-salt color, descended farover his shoulders. He was about four feet six in height,and wore a conical-pointed cap of nearly the same alti-tude, decorated with a black feather some three feetlong. His doublet was prolonged behind into something 6. k& TO BE IN A HURRY AND NOT TO BE AFRAID OF THE CONSEQUENCES &&G&: 4* ^m THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER resembling a violent exaggeration of what is now termeda swallow-tail, but was much obscured by the swell-ing folds of an enormous black, glossy looking cloakwhich must have been very much too long in calm wea-ther, as the wind, whistling round the old house, carriedit clear out from the wearers shoulders to about fourtimes his own length. Gluck was so perfectly paralyzed by the singular ap-pearance of his visitor that he remained fixed withoututtering a word, until the old gentleman, having per-formed another and a more energetic concerto on theknocker, turned round to look after his fly-away so doing he caught sight of Glucks little yellow headjammed in the window, with its mouth and eyes verywide open indeed. Hollo! said the little gentleman, thats not theway to answer the door; Im wet, let me in. To do the little gentleman justice, he was wet. Hisfeather
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