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Show Companions in Misfortune. Two men sat at the same table in a restaurant of the cheaper sort in Berlin. Ber-lin. They were strangers to each other, oth-er, but not too proud to talk. "Hard times," said one, putting down regretfully his empty beer glass. "Very hard times," said the other as he speared with his fork the last morsel of sausage. "I have seen better days." "And I." "Only a year ago. too." "Just about that." "I mean in my business." "Precisely. My business is gone clean to the devil." "The same with mine." "And what is your business. May I ask?" "I am a dancing master a professor of the fox trot and allied arts and you?" "I am a professor of international law." |