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"Then run over to Wilhelm Corneliussohn and tell him it is settled: we'll meet at nine, punctually at nine." "At Aquarius's tavern?" asked the boy. "No, no, he knows; make haste, my lad." Adrian was going, but Georg beckoned to him, and said in a low tone: "Can you be silent?" "As a fried sole." "I shall slip out of the city to-day, and perhaps may never return." "You, Junker?
Henrica had recognized Georg by the light of the lantern, and when Wilhelm stopped to ascertain whether there was any water in the ditch over which he intended to guide his companions, she said, under her breath: "I did not expect your escort, Junker." "I know it, but I, too, desired to leave the city." "And wish to avail yourself of our knowledge of the watchword. Then stay with us."
Georg clasped the widow's hand, and neither attempted to conceal how dear each had become to the other and how hard it was to part. Trautchen had given Barbara the stockings, and many tears fell upon them, while the widow was bidding the Junker farewell. When she noticed they were actually wet, she waved them in the air and handed them to the young man. The night was dark but still, even sultry.
Henrica thought of Wilhelm; he was her sister's friend. "But he is in the military service," replied the burgomaster. "I know him. He will not desert the city in these times of trouble, not even for his mother." "But I know the right messenger," said Maria. "We'll send Junker Georg." "That's a good suggestion," said Peter. "We shall find him in his lodgings.
After all, to a military empire soldiers are more necessary than peasants and artisans. Already in 1815 Mecklenburg could claim the glory of having produced the greatest Junker soldier of the age, bluff and rough Prince Blücher, the victor of Waterloo.
Henrica did not avoid his frank glance, as she replied: "First hear what a great service we ask of you. You must prepare yourself to hear a short story. I am still weak and have put my strength to a severe test to-day, Maria must speak for me." The young wife fulfilled this task quietly and clearly, closing with the words: "The messenger we need, I have found myself. You must be he, Junker Georg."
Hunger had become a serious, nay only too serious and mighty power, in the city beyond, and it was not at all surprising that Wilhelm approached the venders, and with sparkling eyes bought their last ham and as much bread as they had left. Nicolas laughed at the bundle he carried under his arm, but Georg said: "You haven't yet looked want in the face, Junker.
"Instead of sending money, he wrote this: 'Full many a favor, dear friend, hast thou done me, For which good hard coin glad wouldst thou be to see There's none in my pockets; so for the debt In place of dirty coin, This written sheet so fine; Paper money in Leyden is easy to get." "Excellent!" cried Junker von Warmond, "and besides you made the die for the pasteboard coins yourself." "Of course!
A light heart soon will bring to the top again what ruth, at this hour, is bearing to the deeps. Of what use is waiting? Am I then the first Junker who has made love to a sweet maid of low birth, only to forget her for a new lady love?
The Conservative Press had searched out the inflammatory speeches of the war lords and the junker politicians. It had seemed to the man in the street a controversy as remote from the actual interests of his own life as remote from the suburban garden in which he grew his roses or from the golf links on which he spent his Saturday afternoons as a discussion on the canals of Mars.
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