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He chattered on about His Excellency being a fine, free-thinking man, related a hundred anecdotes about him, how he turned out the Jesuits from his possessions, what jokes he had played on the monks, how he persecuted the pietists, and other such things as might be very inconvenient incumbrances to the Principality of Hohenelm-Weitbreitstein, in the case of any such principality existing in the world.
"I have an order and a title, the gift of His Excellency." "Of course it may lead to more." "Oh yes. In return for my winning His Excellency's domains, which he inherited on his mother's side, he will settle on me 5,000 acres of land." "In Hohenelm-Weitbreitstein?" "No: here in the Magyar country." "I thought in Hohenelm-Weitbreitstein: for that is a beautiful country."
It was a supreme opportunity for being able to display his grandiose achievements. Let that other see how high he had flown, while others had remained fastened to the earth. "I have just concluded a splendid business for his Excellency, the Prince of Hohenelm-Weitbreitstein." "A ruling prince, of course?" inquired Topándy, in naïve wonder. "Why, you know that." "Of course, of course.
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