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The field pieces, twenty in number, were disposed to the best advantage between the wings. Franz Albert of Lauenburg, who had joined the army the day before, rode by the king. A short halt was made at Chursitz, where the baggage was left behind, and the army then advanced against the Imperialists, who at once opened fire.
Otto did not like his cousin much, for he used to bother him with bad jokes; but a strange malign instinct made him add a few moments later: "He is very nice." "Who?" asked Jean-Christophe. "Franz." Otto waited for Jean-Christophe to say something, but he seemed not to have heard. He was cutting a switch from a hazel-tree. Otto went on: "He is amusing. He has all sorts of stories."
Franz rose from his seat while watching these men standing with their violins pressed against their breasts, as if they were pouring their life's blood into them: he felt oppressed with anguish, when, by an ingenious inversion, the gloomy theme was transformed into a graceful, poetic melody. The sounds passed away rapidily like sparks, then were extinguished for a moment.
One would think he had desecrated his beloved violin when he condescends to it, for afterward he invariably gives it a special polishing with the old silk handkerchief he keeps in the case and Miss Arden vows he washes his hands, too. Poor Franz! Your real artist has a hard time of it in this prosaic world doesn't he?
She must speak and she must tell him that she had left her guardian. She must speak of Tante. But what to say of her? The shame and pity that had gone with her for days laid their fingers on her lips as she thought of Tante and of why she had left her. Her mind groped for some availing substitute. "Franz," she said, "you must help me. I have left Tante. You will not question me.
Together we have faced all that there is of difficult and sad to face. My child shall be spared all that could trouble her. Franz and I are beside you through it all. Your husband, Karen, is to divorce you because of Franz. You are to be set free, my child." A strange thing happened then.
"Are monks allowed to indulge their taste for music?" asked he. "Oh yes," was the reply; "Brother Franz is a great musician. It is he that always leads in the chanted grace before and after meals." Brother Franz, however, was not present to answer for himself; so we continued our progress.
A servant, wearing a livery of considerable style and richness, appeared at the threshold, and, placing two cards in the landlord's hands, who forthwith presented them to the two young men, he said, "Please to deliver these, from the Count of Monte Cristo to Viscomte Albert de Morcerf and M. Franz d'Epinay.
With or without explosion, arrive there he must; other goal for him is none! In the mean while, it appears, illustrious Franz of Lorraine, coming on, amid the proper demonstrations, through Magdeburg and the Prussian Towns, has caught some slight illness and been obliged to pause; so that Berlin cannot have the happiness of seeing him quite so soon as it expected.
'Well, heart's dearest, we go to have our boys again, all two, and may rejoice greatly, said Mr Bhaer, seating himself beside Jo with a beaming face and a handshake of congratulation. 'Oh, Fritz, I'm so delighted about Emil, and if you approve about Franz also. Did you know Ludmilla?
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