ABSTRACT
The château of Les Mouettes was lent for the coming winter season to the Prince and Princess Wolfram of Karstein by its owners, who, both naturally generous, and made more genorous still by happiness and a sense of gratitude, were unceasing 411and inexhaustible in the wideness of their goodwill. It was always well to oblige persons who are led away by their feelings, thought the recipient of their bounties. Such people do not inquire too minutely or measure too exactly. It is of such as these that is made that succulent oyster which the wise man or woman opens with his or her knife, and sucks the juices thereof.
