Crossword-Solution: SCHLEMIHL 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The reader, no doubt, remembers the awful passage in "Peter Schlemihl," where the little gentleman purchases the shadow of that hero--"Have the kindness, noble sir, to examine and try this bag." "He put his hand into his pocket, and drew thence a tolerably large bag of Cordovan leather, to which a couple of thongs were fixed.

Out of these hints came the fancy of “Peter Schlemihl, the Shadowless Man.” In all thought that goes with invention of a poet, there are depths as well as shallows, and the reader may get now and then a peep into the depths.

The child who enjoyed it, and for whom she made the delicate translation which here follows next after Chamisso’s “Peter Schlemihl,” was that only daughter who became Lady Duff-Gordon, and with whom we have made acquaintance in this Library as the translator of “The Amber Witch.” To make up the tale of pages in this little book without breaking its uniformity, I have added a translation of the “Hymns to Night” of Novalis.

YOU, who forget nobody, must surely remember one Peter Schlemihl, whom you used to meet occasionally at my house—a long-legged youth, who was considered stupid and lazy, on account of his awkward and careless air.

The man’s words were precisely these: ‘Tell your master, Peter Schlemihl, he will not see me here again.