- Come! Quit this dreary world at once." "I don't know," said the baron, playing with the knife; "it's a dreary one certainly,
- but I don't think yours is much better, for you have not the appearance of being particularly comfortable.
- That puts me in mind - what security have I, that I shall be any the better for going out of the world after all!" he cried, starting up;
- "I never thought of that." "Dispatch," cried the figure, gnashing its teeth. "Keep off!" said the baron,
- "I'll brood over miseries no longer, but put a good face on the matter, and try the fresh air and the bears again; and if that don't do,
- I'll talk to the baroness soundly, and cut the Von Swillenhausens dead." With this the baron fell into his chair,
- and laughed so loud and boisterously, that the room rang with it.
