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May a piece of parchment, merely because hallowed by the Emperor's signature, venture to leave its place and threaten?" "Hush, Burgsdorf! And you, sir, step back into your recess, stay in the place pointed out to you, and wait." "Learn to wait!" cried Burgsdorf. "Oh, gracious sir, that is the very window niche in which I was once forced to stand in order to learn to wait.
I will teach you to harbor such sentiments, and revolt against your mother. Only wait until I get you to Burgsdorf, then God have mercy on you, if you evince any signs of obstinacy!"
But on the day when you bring Marietta Volkmar to Burgsdorf I leave it." The threat had its effect; Willibald moved back a step as he said excitedly: "Mother, you are speaking in anger." "I speak in full earnest.
What care we for the Elector? What care we for Burgsdorf? Forward!" The lights increase in size and brilliancy. Now they distinguish torches and the figures of men. "Are you there, count?" calls down Colonel von Rochow from the wall. "It is I, colonel!" The gate is open, they gallop in! Over the wooden bridge gallop the pursuers after them. Now they are at the gate.
You wanted to make of the poor little Electoral Prince a mighty rebel, and were even so kind as to promise that when with your help he had crushed Schwarzenberg he should become his father's prime minister and Stadtholder in the Mark." "Your highness," cried Burgsdorf indignantly, "those were well-meant schemes, and originated in the excess of our love for you."
This philippic, which was delivered in a loud tone, came from the lips of Frau von Eschenhagen of Burgsdorf, while sitting with her son and mother at breakfast. The great dining-room lay on the ground floor of the old mansion, and was an extremely simple room, with glass doors leading out upon a broad stone terrace, and to the garden beyond.
And why is your old face so merry to-day?" "Because I have something pleasant to communicate to your highness. The two gentlemen whom your honor has been expecting are here. Colonel von Burgsdorf and " "Leuchtmar?" joyfully inquired the Elector, and, upon Dietrich's assent, he hurried himself toward the door.
Willibald was roused now. He continued: "I am no boy, I am the heir of Burgsdorf, and twenty-seven years old. You have always forgotten that, mother, and so have I, for that matter, but I remember it to-day." Frau von Eschenhagen gazed astonished at her son, so tractable all his life until this moment. "I verily believe you are becoming refractory.
I thought a little about that unhappy, misguided Prince, and profited by his example. You probably did not think of him, Burgsdorf, and fell into a great rage. I am glad you remember that day, for actually I had forgotten it." "Most gracious sir, I would like to bite out my own tongue and swallow it," screamed Burgsdorf, raving.
"And now, having sworn you into my service," said the Elector, in a majestic tone, "now I commission you to return home to Küstrin and to administer the oath to all the officers and men there. But understand, to me alone, not to the Emperor." "To you alone, not to the Emperor!" cried Burgsdorf, with animation.
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