United States or Colombia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was just at the time when a special performance of the opera Norma was to be given by our company in Mitau. Holtei insisted on my getting up from a sick-bed to make this wintry journey, and thus to expose myself to the danger of seriously increasing my cold in the icy theatre at Mitau.
I called on Demetrio Papanelopulo, the Greek merchant, who was to pay me a hundred roubles a month. I was also commended to him by M. da Loglio, and I had an excellent reception. He begged me to come and dine with him every day, paid me the roubles for the month due, and assured me that he had honoured my bill drawn at Mitau.
I could have taken care of myself, and I should not have brought all this trouble and anxiety on Monsieur Cheverny or you, Captain Babache, and on Count Saxe unfortunate that I am." "You could not have made me leave you, Mademoiselle," replied Gaston. "And, besides, it is extremely dangerous in Mitau now for any one who is supposed to be connected with Count Saxe.
They were but lath and plaster; but Count Saxe was a man well fashioned by nature of her strongest metal, and him the Russians reckoned with, and him only. We had but one piece of good luck in Mitau, and that was the place in which we were lodged.
This information was very distressing, but Sir Moses was determined to go on, and only stop when we should find it too dangerous to go forward. The same day we left Berlin, and proceeded viâ Königsberg and Tilsid to Mitau. Friday, the 20th March.
After I had taken leave of all my friends I applied to Baron Treidel, who gave me a letter for M. de Kaiserling, lord-chancellor at Mitau, and another letter for his sister, the Duchess of Courland, and I spent the last night with the charming Madame Denis. She bought my post-chaise, and I started with two hundred ducats in my purse.
Lord Keith My Appointment to Meet the King in the Garden of Sans-Souci My Conversation with Frederick the Great Madame Denis The Pomeranian Cadets Lambert I Go to Mitau My Welcome at the Court, and My Administrative Journey The fifth day after my arrival at Berlin I presented myself to the lord-marshal, who since the death of his brother had been styled Lord Keith.
Cavalry moving forward in the center of the German advance on the 3d of May, 1915, got within two kilometers of Mitau, going beyond Grünhof and capturing 2,000 Russians. At Skaisgiry on the day before 1,000 prisoners had been taken, and Janischki and Shagory had been occupied far beyond the Libau-Dunaburg railway. By this time Russian reenforcements were arriving at Mitau in huge numbers.
Lord Keith My Appointment to Meet the King in the Garden of Sans-Souci My Conversation with Frederick the Great Madame Denis The Pomeranian Cadets Lambert I Go to Mitau My Welcome at the Court, and My Administrative Journey The fifth day after my arrival at Berlin I presented myself to the lord-marshal, who since the death of his brother had been styled Lord Keith.
I was forced to admit that I could not name any fault he had committed; for surely, his not betraying Count Saxe was not a fault. "The torrents of rain still continued, and it seemed to me best that we should not lose a moment in getting out of Mitau; and so I told Francezka. I proposed to her that we should cross the river by the bridge of boats.
Word Of The Day