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journalists are also granted their esteemed place in modern society, for Adelheid Runeck, a young lady of wealth and noble birth, gives him her hand in marriage.
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lineation of characters, and a sympathetic insight into human nature whose weaknesses are smiled at rather than satirized. Consult G. Freytag's works (Leipzig, 1887-88, Vol. III, pp. 1-11a4 ; English translation in