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Discontentedly the Grand Duke appraised the scene, and in the murky twilight which heralded the day he found the world a cheerless place. The Gardens of Breschau were deserted, save for a travelling carriage and its fretful horses, who stamped and snuffled within forty yards of the summer-house.
" although I am told the sunrise is very beautiful from the Gardens of Breschau." "It is well worth seeing," agreed the Grand Duke, "on certain days particularly on Thursdays. The gardeners make a specialty of them on Thursdays." "By a curious chance," the Baroness murmured, "this is Wednesday." "Indeed," said the Grand Duke, "now you mention it, I believe it is."
As he reached the summit of a slight incline he turned and looked toward the road that leads from Breschau to Vienna. A cloud of dust showed where the carriage had disappeared. "Ma foi!" said his Highness; "my wife has very fully proven her executive ability. Beyond doubt, there is no person in Europe better qualified to rule Noumaria as Regent." As Played at Ingilby, October 6, 1755
"Teach me how to live, my father," said Louis de Soyecourt, "for I begin to comprehend in part I comprehend." Throughout the moment Nelchen Thorn was forgotten: and to himself he too seemed to be fashioned of heroic stuff. As Played at Breschau, May 3, 1755 "Venez, belle, venez, Qu'on ne scauroit tenir, et qui vous mutinez.
But everything in Hell seems rather strange, and the place is not at all as it was rumored to be by the priests and the bishops and the cardinals that used to be exhorting me in my fine palace at Breschau." "And where, did you say, is this palace?" "In Noumaria, where I am the Emperor Jurgen.
He had, as prologue to its elucidation, conducted the Baroness into the summer-house that his grandfather, good Duke Augustus, erected in the Gardens of Breschau, close to the Fountain of the Naiads, and had en tete-a-tete explained his notion.
And I need not insult you by explaining Breschau is my capital city, and is noted for its manufacture of linen and woolen cloth and gloves and cameos and brandy, though the majority of my subjects are engaged in cattle-breeding and agricultural pursuits." "Of course not: for I have studied geography. And, Jurgen, it is often I have heard of you, though never of your being an emperor."
A COACHMAN and two FOOTMEN. GRAND DUCHESS OF NOUMARIA, a capable woman. BARONESS VON ALTENBURG, a coquette. The Palace Gardens at Breschau. PROEM: In Default of the Hornpipe Customary to a Lengthy Interval between Acts
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