"Don't you wish to know what the device means? Look, a serpent biting its own tail." "Aha!" replied the Junker, "the symbol of self-torment." "Good, good! But it has another meaning, which you would do well to notice, Sir Knight. Do you know the signification of eternity and eternal faith?" "No, Fraulein, I wasn't taught to think so deeply at Jena." "Of course. Your teachers were men. Men and faith, eternal faith!" "Was Delilah, who betrayed Samson to the Philistines, a man or a woman?" asked Van Hout. "She was a woman. The exception, that proves the rule. Isn't that so, Maria?" The burgomaster's wife made no reply except a silent nod; then indignantly pushed back her chair, and the meal was over. ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: Drinking is also an art, and the Germans are masters of it Here the new custom of tobacco-smoking was practised Standing still is retrograding To whom fortune gives once, it gives by bushels Youth calls 'much,' what seems to older people 'little'