United States or Italy ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Bettermann, doubled up in his low chair, broke in abruptly: "Yes, I insist!" The Baron smiled his elderly, temperate smile. "So be it," he said. "Well, my good Haase, what have you to tell us?" Herr Haase brought his heels together, dropped his thumbs to the seams of his best trousers, threw up his chin, and barked: "Your Excellency, I have seen the Herr Colonel Graf von Specht.
The newspaper doesn't get here till we are at lunch, and is always brought in and laid by the Graf, and today there was the Austrian ultimatum to Servia in it, and when the Graf saw that in the headlines of the Tageszeitung he laid it down without a word and got up and left the room. Bernd reached over for the paper to see what had happened, and it was that. He read it out to us.
Two bits of straw were the legs, and the face looked so like Dr. Whiting that both boys laughed at the sight. "That's so like Jill; she'd make fun if she was half dead. Let's see what she says;" and Jack read the little note, which showed a sad neglect of the spelling-book: "Dear Jacky, I can't stir and it's horrid. The telly graf is very nice and we will have fun with it.
"Go!" said the Prince, with a sweep of the great arm and hand towards the door. Bert went out like a leaf before a gale. But in between the time when the Graf von Winterfeld had talked to him and this alarming conference with the Prince, Bert had explored the Vaterland from end to end. He had found it interesting in spite of grave preoccupations.
At this time there came to Paris a man remarkable in his own century, and one who afterward became almost a hero of romance. This was Maurice, Comte de Saxe, as the French called him, his German name and title being Moritz, Graf von Sachsen, while we usually term him, in English, Marshal Saxe. Maurice de Saxe was now, in 1721, entering his twenty-fifth year.
Only the Graf sat mute, his eyes fixed on the tablecloth. "My husband is dying to hear you play," said the Grafin, when he got up presently to go back to his work. "Absolutely dying," she said, recklessly padding out the leanness of his very bald good-bye to me. He said nothing even to that. He just went. He didn't seem to be dying. Herr von luster walked back with me.
In due time this happy party landed at the quays of Rotterdam, whence they were transported by another steamer to the city of Cologne. Here the carriage and the family took to the shore, and Jos was not a little gratified to see his arrival announced in the Cologne newspapers as "Herr Graf Lord von Sedley nebst Begleitung aus London."
The vital element in Ferdinand's Adventure was the Siege of Cassel; all had to fail, when this, by defect of means, under the best of management, declared itself a failure. Siege Captain was a Graf von Lippe-Buckeburg, Ferdinand's Ordnance-Master, who is supposed to be "the best Artillery Officer in the world," and is a man of great mark in military and other circles.
We watched him spin round like a teetotum and kenned that he was bye with it. 'You are sure he was killed? I asked. 'Yes, sirr. When we counter-attacked we fund his body. There is a grave close by the farm of Gavrelle, and a wooden cross at its head bears the name of the Graf von Schwabing and the date of his death. The Germans took Gavrelle a little later.
Indeed, the decision did justice to his discretion. Beth De Graf was a rarely beautiful girl and quite outshone her cousins in this respect. Louise might be attractive and Patsy fascinating; but Beth was the real beauty of the trio, and the most charming trait in her character was her unconsciousness that she excelled in good looks.
Word Of The Day