Excerpt from At Odds, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel
A more intelligent and amusingly talkative person than this friend of my mother-in-law I have seldom met,-a German Scheherezade, who never allowed day or lamp-light to inter rupt her discourse until she had completed her story and, if the motives of the actions recorded by her strongly resembled, or were precisely the same as, those which actuate the world around us now, the violent political convulsions and desperate military struggles of those times exero cised not unfrequently their influence on fami lies, and even individuals, in a manner that threw a gleam of romance on many a common place event, or gave rise to connections or estrangements that would be more than improb abilities in the present day.
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