In Bohemia with Du Maurier

A fellow-student, was their lodger, a handsome young German, brimful of talent, but sadly deficient in health. He had always held {24} most rigid principles on questions of morality, but unfortunately they failed one day in their application, owing to the less settled views entertained by Madame Van-der-something on such subjects. She certainly gave him much affection on the one hand, but on the other she so audaciously appropriated those of his goods and chattels that could be turned into money, that the police had to intervene, and she eventually found herself before a judge and jury.