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ILLO. Not from his right most surely, unless first From office! Know you aught then? You alarm me. We should be ruined, every one of us! I fear we shall not go hence as we came. Enter OCTAVIO PICCOLOMINI and QUESTENBERG. Ay! ah! more still! Still more new visitors! Acknowledge, friend! that never was a camp, Which held at once so many heads of heroes.
In the execution of this plan, he principally reckoned on the services of Piccolomini, and had beforehand promised him the greatest rewards. When the latter, to conceal his amazement at this extraordinary communication, spoke of the dangers and obstacles which would oppose so hazardous an enterprise, Wallenstein ridiculed his fears.
The young knights left the oars, sprang up to the poop and joined in the shout of encouragement raised by the others, and then, resuming their helmets and armour, stood ready to leap on board an enemy as soon as they reached her. Piccolomini directed the helmsman to lay him alongside one of the ships grappling with Santoval.
On the 18th of February, Field-Marshal Piccolomini himself entered Freiberg, and highly commended the courageous and unexampled defence that had been made by a town so slightly fortified.
This inconceivable blindness can only be accounted for as the result of his pride, which never retracted the opinion it had once formed of any person, and would not acknowledge, even to itself, the possibility of being deceived. He conveyed Count Piccolomini in his own carriage to Lintz, where the latter immediately followed the example of Gallas, and even went a step farther.
NEUMANN. I have copied it Letter by letter, line by line; no eye Would e'er discover other difference, Save only the omission of that clause, According to your excellency's order. TERZKY. Right I lay it yonder and away with this It has performed its business to the fire with it. ILLO. How goes it with young Piccolomini! TERZKY. All right, I think. He has started no object.
Next day, after I had had dinner with the Comte d'Afri, I found a letter from Piccolomini, with an enclosure addressed to the countess, waiting for me at the inn. He begged me to give his wife the letter, which would inform her of his plans, and then to bring her to the Ville de Lyon at Amsterdam, where he was staying. He wanted to know how the Englishman whom he had wounded was getting on.
Piccolomini pretended to be greatly astonished, and said that, "though he could not believe it, he would look into the matter." "You may look into it when you please," said I, "but in the mean time I should be obliged by your giving me five hundred florins." "You know me, sir," said he, raising his voice, "I guarantee to pay you, and that ought to be enough."
There, in turn, have dwelt the Colonna, Borgia, Piccolomini, Cenci, Frangipani, and Braschi, and there the descendants of the last-named family still pass a few weeks in the summer. Below you, silent and silvery, lies the lake itself, and rising around it, like a green bowl, tower its richly wooded banks, covered with gigantic oaks, ilexes, and chestnuts.
GORDON. Oh, house of death and horrors! GORDON steps forward and meets him. What is this It is the imperial seal. To the Prince Piccolomini. The Curtain drops. A great stone near Luetzen, since called the Swede's Stone, the body of their great king having been found at the foot of it, after the battle in which he lost his life.
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