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In allowing the Prince of Little Lilliput to be attended during the interview by a friend, Beckendorff had prepared himself for the reception of some brawny Jagd Junker, or some thick-headed chamberlain, who he reckoned would act rather as an incumbrance than an aid to his opponent.
Beckendorff has been long awake, sir! and dinner will be ready immediately." His Highness' countenance brightened; and in a short time the supper appearing, the Prince, again fascinated by Mrs. Clara's cookery and Mr. Beckendorff's wine, forgot his chagrin, and regained his temper. In about a couple of hours Mr. Beckendorff entered.
Beckendorff to bear with everything as he did: I am sure he is not much used to lady visitors." "I trust that your visit to him will not be very short?" "My stay at Reisenburg will not be very long," said the young lady, with rather a grave countenance, "Have you been here any time?" "About a fortnight; it was a, mere chance my coming at all. I was going on straight to Vienna."
Beckendorff, with your wish, developed in the communication received by me on the inst., I assented in my answer to the arrangement then proposed; the object of which was, to use your own words, to facilitate the occurrence of an oral interchange of the sentiments of various parties interested in certain proceedings, by which interchange it was anticipated that the mutual interests might be respectively considered and finally arranged.
The sense of propriety struggled for a moment with the passion of curiosity; but nothing is more difficult for the man who loves books than to refrain from examining a volume which he fancies may be unknown to him. From the jewelled dagger Beckendorff had now got to an enamelled breast-plate.
Beckendorff; but Vivian, who had no ambitious hopes or fears to affect his temper, and who was amused by the character with whom he had become so unexpectedly acquainted, good-naturedly humoured the fantasies of the Minister, and said that he preferred his picture to any Breughel he had ever seen. "I see you have a fine taste," said Mr.
And now, Mr. von Philipson," said Beckendorff, "do me the favour of giving me your opinion of this Honthorst?" His Highness would rather have given his opinion of the dish of game which still smoked upon the table, but which he was mournfully convinced would not smoke long.
I have considered his conduct well, and I have observed all that you have seen, and more than you have seen, and keenly; depend upon it that since you assented to the interview Beckendorff has been obliged to shift his intended position for negotiation; some of the machinery has gone wrong.
I have no doubt that my conjecture is correct; Beckendorff has been to Reisenburg." "You have placed this business in a new and important light," said the Prince, his expiring hopes reviving; "what then do you advise me to do?" "To be quiet.
His conversation with him of the last night had given him some notion of his powers, and the moment that Beckendorff saw Essper George enter the house he determined that he should be the cause of Vivian leaving it. There was also another and weighty reason for Mr. Beckendorff desiring that the Prince of Little Lilliput should at this moment be left to himself. "Mr.
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