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ligdt the most imposing character . As my Great-Uncle Anselm resided in it and as I was taken to see him every Saturday, I often had the satisfaction of leaving the silent quarter of the town in which we lived or the brilliant and animated Zeil , of which I never tired. “At one end ; facing the Rossmarkt and the Hotel d'aneleterre , stood , and I believe still stands, the old quard's House, which was alternately occupied by Austrian , soldiers , and which was built of red t 3 ie) 6) nee oO $ “ ey) 5 os o g 0 sey) 7° ra 3 sandstone with a richly carved pediment representing military } trophies. At the corner of the Fahrgasse at the other end stood another suard-house, the town prison ; a narrow one-stor- - b] eyed edifice which I never passed without a shiver , for I a) could see the pale faces of the prisoners peering through th iron-barred windows hear , or perhanvs fancied I heard their coarse laughter and savage cries. Our business offices are still situated in the Fahreasse. ray 1 fy Father's house was then in the most fashionable quar- ter of the town , at the corner of the Mainzer Strasse , where it forms a sharp angle.It has now long been levelled to the sround } "and a "Street Dull aver 1s site's” It was “a Large mansion with a courtyard and rarden , and opposite were the rad stables , which my Grandfather had stocked with fine Arab horses. [he head coachman was an old Frenchman named Michel , who had 2een a soldier in the Grande Armée, and had gone through the disastrous Russian campaizn . He had had some of his toes ps rrozen during the me morable passare of the Reresina. There were few carriages to be seen in the streets of Frankfort in those days - chiefly lumbering old coaches and chariots - but there