This evening matters fell out differently. Leibgeber rapped loudly on the table two or three times with the knuckle of his forefinger to wake the city's father out of his first sleep. When he opened his eyes and saw before him the two lean parodies and copies of one another, he took, in his beer- and sleep-heaviness of idea, a glass periwig from off a block, and put that on his head instead of his cap, which had fallen down. His ward addressed him politely, saying he wished to present to him his friend with whom he had made the exchange of names. He likewise called him his "kind cousin and guardian." Leibgeber, more angry and less self-contained, because he was younger, and because the wrong had not been done to _him_, fired into the Heimlicher's ears, from a position closer to him by three discourteous paces, the inquiries, "Which of us two is it that your worship has given out _pro mortuo_, that you may be able to cite him as a dead man? There are the ghosts of _two_ of us here both together." Blaise turned with a lofty air from Leibgeber to Siebenkæs, and said, "If you have not changed your dress, sir, as well as your name, I believe _you_ are the gentleman whom I have had the honour of talking with on several previous occasions. Or was it _you_, sir?" he said to Leibgeber, who shook like one possessed. "Well," he continued in a more pleasant tone, "I must confess to you, Mr. Siebenkæs, that I had always supposed, until now, that you were the person who left this for the university ten years ago, and whose little inheritance I then assumed the guardianship or curatorship of. What probably chiefly contributed to my mistake, if it be a mistake, was, I presume, the likeness which, _præter propter_, you certainly seem to bear to my missing ward; for in many details you undoubtedly differ from him; for instance, he had a mole beside his ear." "The infernal mole," interrupted Leibgeber, "was obliterated by means of a toad, on my account entirely, because it was like an ass's ear, and he never thought that, when he lost his ear, he should lose a relative along with it."