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Two of the men stepped forward. "You two will guard the two doors of the servants' quarter when we arrive. Death to him who tries to escape by door or window." "We know." "Csutor and Disznós. you will be in ambush before the hunting-box, and anyone who attempts to come out to the rescue, must be killed." "Very well." "Bogrács!
What was the use of the old ancestral manor near Caistor in Lincolnshire, or the town-house in Park Street, the snug hunting-box at Melton, or the beautiful palm-shaded, flower-embowered villa overlooking the blue southern sea at San Remo? He remembered them all. He had misty visions of their splendour and their luxury; but since his blindness he had seldom, if ever, entered them.
Immediately after his return to the hunting-box, the Imperial Chancellor, who had arrived from Berlin by a night train, had been announced to the Emperor. With the monarch's suite he also was present at the breakfast-table, probably not a little surprised to find a strange guest in the company of the Emperor, who was evidently very kindly disposed to him.
The hunting-box could not be far off now. It conceals itself to the right of the rose bushes beneath a lofty birch. A few moments later she found herself outside its door. As she laid her hand on the latch, a thought of terror transfixed her. What if the door should be shut? But she had only to press the latch in order to put all her fears to flight. The door this time also was not fastened.
When he recovered his composure, he exclaimed: "Lips shall stay, you rogues; he shall stay! And the Lord Abbot has given you permission, to come with me to-day to my hunting-box and light a St. John's fire. There shall be no lack of cakes and wine." "Hurrah! hurrah! Long live the count!" shouted the pupils, and all who had caps tossed them into the air.
The battlefield where the independence of Bohemia was lost in November 1620 lies on a plateau, as background to which stands a peculiar building. Surrounded by a park and overlooking undulating country stands the "Star." It is a former royal hunting-box, built several centuries before the battle and planned as a six-pointed star. It has no architectural beauty; it is in appearance a somewhat ungainly landmark and must have been pretty uncomfortable to live in, even for the less exacting royalties of the Middle Ages, but it stands on what, for the Bohemian, should be holy ground. The forces of the Holy Roman Empire, aided by Bavarians and Spaniards, were arrayed against the army of Frederick, the "Winter King," which stood for religious freedom. Perhaps the Protestant forces were not united, they were composed of Czechs, Moravians, Germans and Hungarians, perhaps that their King had left them somewhat hurriedly, at any rate the spirit of the old covenanters, Hus and Žiška, no longer informed the Bohemian Army. The first to break were the Hungarians, and the conduct of the others was not up to tradition; only a small force of Moravians under Count
Curious Phenomenon Panorama of Ouva South-west Monsoon Hunting Followers Fort M'Donald River Jungle Paths Dangerous Locality Great Waterfall Start for Hunting The Find A Gallant Stag "Bran" and "Lucifer" "Phrenzy's" Death Buck at Bay The Cave Hunting-box "Madcap's" Dive Elk Soup Former Inundation "Bluebeard" leads off "Hecate's" Course The Elk's Leap Variety of Deer The Axis Ceylon Bears Variety of Vermin Trials for Hounds Hounds and their Masters A Sportsman "shut up" A Corporal and Centipede.
And at Michaelmas, perhaps, a fourth may be added: some small hunting-box in the vicinity of everything so dear; for as to any partnership in Thornton Lacey, as Edmund Bertram once good-humouredly proposed, I hope I foresee two objections: two fair, excellent, irresistible objections to that plan."
I am entirely ignorant what motives prevented the prince from coming to Schoenbrunn, or the Emperor from visiting him; but, nevertheless, it is a fact, that, two or three days before his departure from Munich, his Majesty one morning attended a hunting-party, composed of several officers and myself; and that we stopped at a hunting-box called la Venerie on the road between Vienna and Bukusdorf, and on our arrival we found the Archduke Charles awaiting his Majesty, attended by a suite of only two persons.
While she was yet very young, a widower with an only boy, a man who at that time was considerably less than thirty, had come into her father's parish, having rented there a small hunting-box. This gentleman we will so call him, in lack of some other term immediately became possessed of an establishment, at any rate eminently respectable.
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