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Still the emperor Rudolph, abstaining for a time from his star-gazing, had again thought proper to make a feeble attempt at intervention in those sublunary matters which were supposed to be within his sphere.
Glad, indeed! Before he had finished shaking hands with Patricia Stapylton, it was all over with the poor man. "Er h'm!" quoth he. "Only," Miss Stapylton was meditating, with puckered brow, "it would be unseemly for me to call you Rudolph " "You impertinent minx!" cried he, in his soul; "I should rather think it would be!"
"Yes, that's it, Hargreave!" said Rudolph, and a few moments later I turned the car through the high wrought-iron gates which stood open for us, and we sped up the long avenue of leafless trees which led to the fine country mansion at which we were to be guests.
He wondered if Clayton knew anything about it, or the further gossip that Graham knew where Anna Klein had been hiding. "What about Rudolph Klein? He was a nephew, wasn't he?" "Fired," said Hutchinson laconically. "Got to spreading the brotherhood of the world idea sweat brothers, he calls them. But he was mighty careful never to get in a perspiration himself." "We might try Herman again.
It had been secretly agreed between the two that Leopold, at the head of a considerable army of mercenaries which he had contrived to levy, should dart into Julich as the Emperor's representative, seize the debateable duchies, and hold them in sequestration until the Emperor should decide to whom they belonged, and, then, rushing back to Bohemia, should annihilate Matthias, seize Prague, and deliver Rudolph from bondage.
"The best?" she echoed, in the same half-whisper as when she had flattered him, that afternoon in the dusky well of the pagoda stairway. "The very best friend? Don't you think you have a better?" Rudolph stared. "Oh, you funny, funny boy!" she cried, with a bewildering laugh, of delight and pride.
Philip, much offended that the news of his decease had proved false, ordered rather than requested the Emperor Rudolph to have a care that nothing was done in Germany to interfere with the great design upon England. The King gave warning that he would suffer no disturbance from that quarter, but certainly the lethargic condition of Germany rendered such threats superfluous.
I had been slowly slipping ever since I had made that accursed compact with Rudolph Rayne, and my love for Lola, who had, I knew, every confidence in me, while at the same time she was growing highly suspicious of her father. The reader will readily realize my feelings that night.
"Fellow!" she said in a faint voice, "I I do not understand you." "Thought that would fetch her down," commented Ri. "Lead her back to ze train and make her go to London!" pleaded the Baron earnestly. "You stick to it, you don't know her?" asked Mr. Maddison shrewdly. "No, no, I do not!" "Is her name Lady Grillyer?" "Not more zan it is mine!" "Rudolph!" gasped the Countess inarticulately.
"You'd have very expeditious justice," said Rudolph, smiling at the animation of Rigolette. "It is so revolting; and, as Germain says in his letter, everybody will take the master's part against him, because his master is rich, and thought much of, while Germain is a poor young man without protection; unless you come to his assistance, M. Rudolph, who know so many benevolent persons.
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