CHAPTER I
A QUARREL AND A FIGHT
The Debating Society of the Königsberg University was sitting. The subject for the occasion was of a trivial nature, but lent itself to keen and heated argument. The whole afternoon had been occupied with the speeches of the minor lights of the society, and now only the two opposing leaders remained to make their closing speeches before the division took place.
Young Osterberg, the leader of the "Ayes,"...
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