Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Note: 1. Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924031341906 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. Q U I S I S A N A OR REST AT LAST From the German of F. Spielhagen BY H. E. GOLDSCHMIDT ONLY TRANSLATION SANCTIONED BY THE AUTHOR AND BY THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK: JAMES B. MILLAR & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1885. TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK. QUISISANA. I. "Why have you roused me, Konski?" "You were lying on your left side again, sir," the servant, who held his master clasped by the shoulder, replied, as he completed the task of restoring him to a sitting posture on the sofa; "and you have been drinking champagne at dinner, more than a bottle, John says, and that surely is ..." Konski broke off abruptly, and turned again to the travelling boxes, one of which was already unlocked; he commenced to arrange its contents in the chest of drawers, and went on, apparently talking to himself rather than to his master-- "I am merely doing what the doctor has insisted upon. Only last night, in Berlin, as I was showing him to the door, he said: 'Konski, when your master is lying on his left side and begins then to moan, rouse him, rouse him at once, be it day or night. I take the responsibility. And, Konski, no champagne; not for the next six weeks, anyhow, and best not at all. And when you have once got into Italy, then plenty of water to be mixed with the wine, Konski, and ...'" "And now oblige me by holding your tongue."