He was a native of Denmark, and had
followed in his own country the vocation of a schoolmaster. His
knowledge of the English language and the French had offered him the
opportunity of migrating to Paris, where he had obtained employment as
translator and copyist. Earning his bread, poorly enough in this way,
he had been prostrated by the malady which had obliged him to take
refuge in the hospital. The French physician, under whose medical care
he had been placed, having announced that he had communicated his notes
enclosed in a letter to his English colleague, and having frankly
acknowledged that the result of the treatment had not as yet
sufficiently justified expectation, the officers of the institution
spoke next. The Dane was informed of the nature of Mr. Vimpany's
interest in him, and of the hospitable assistance offered by Mr.
Vimpany's benevolent friend; and the question was then put, whether he
preferred to remain where he was, or whether he desired to be removed
under the conditions which had just been stated?
Tempted by the prospect of a change, which offered to him a bed-chamber
of his own in the house of a person of distinction--with a garden to
walk about in, and flowers to gladden his eyes, when he got
better--Oxbye eagerly adopted the alternative of leaving the hospital.
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