ANGELA.
CHAPTER V.
THE PROGRESSIVE PROFESSOR.
When Frank returned from the walk, he found a visitor at Frankenhöhe.
The visitor was an elegantly-dressed young man with a free, self-important air about him.
He spoke fluently, and his words sounded as decisive as though they came from the lips of infallibility. At times this self-importance was of such a boastful and arrogant character as to affect the observer disagreeably.
"It is now vacation, and I do not know how to enjoy it better than by a visit to you," said he.
"Very flattering to me," answered Frank. "I hope you will be pleased with Frankenhöhe."
"Pleased?" returned the visitor as he looked through the open window at the beautiful landscape. "I would like to dream away here the whole of May and June. How charming it is! An empire of flowers and vernal delights."
"I am surprised, Carl, that you have preserved such a love for nature. I thought you considered the professor's chair the culminating point of attraction."
Carl bowed his head proudly and stood with folded arms before the smiling Frank.