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His object in coming to England, he assured me honestly, was to study certain editions of Tibullus in the British Museum. When he deigned to speak of Sarkeld, it was to say that Prince Hermann was frequently there. I gave him no chance to be sly, though he pushed for it, at a question of the Princess Ottilia's health. The funeral pace of the block of cabs and omnibuses engrossed his attention.
It might pass in my handwriting, with a smudge for paternal grief it might. "To Her Serene Highness the Margravine of Rippau, etc., etc., etc., in trust for the Most Exalted the Princess of Eppenwelzen- Sarkeld." I transpose or omit a title or so. "Aha!" says she, "there's verwirrung in Roy's poor head, poor fellow; the boy has sunk to a certainty.
'Idiots, insects, women, and the salt sea ocean! said he, to indicate a list of the untameables, without distressing the one present, and, acknowledging himself beaten, he ruefully accepted his holiday. The girl was like sweet Spring in my room. She spoke of Sarkeld familiarly. She was born in that neighbourhood, she informed me, and had been educated by a dear great lady.
'For strangers, yes; you should be of de palace to know what a fine sight! sthe finest! And you are for Sarkeld? You have friends in Sarkeld? 'My father is in Sarkeld, mademoiselle. I am told he is at the palace. 'Indeed; and he is English, your fater? 'Yes. I have not seen him for years; I have come to find him.
And we say sthis: Has she given a secret order to a sculptor you understand me, sirs, commission where, how, has he sthe likeness copied? Or did he come to our speisesaal of our lake-palace disguised? Oh! but to see, to copy, to model, to cast in bronze, to travel betwixt Berlin and Sarkeld in a time of seven days? No! so-oh! we guess, we guess, we are in exhaustion.
Temple, glancing the way of the tower, performed on a trumpet of his joined fists to show we understood that prodigious attractions were presented by the tower; we said ja and ja, and nevertheless turned into the Sarkeld path. Some minutes later the sound of hoofs led us to imagine he had despatched a messenger after us.
'It may be about the political affairs of the Continent; they are disturbed. 'She spoke of me? 'Yes. 'She is coming by the next boat? 'It's my fear that she is. 'Why do you fear? 'Shall I answer you, Harry? It is useless now. Well, because she has been deceived. That is why. You will soon find it out. 'Prince Ernest is at Sarkeld? 'In Paris, I hear.
Our hats flew off again, and bareheaded, I seized the reply before Temple could speak. 'Is not this, may I ask you, the way to Sarkeld? She gathered up her knowledge of English deliberately. 'Yes, one goes to Sarkeld by sthis way here, but to-day goes everybody up to our Bella Vista, and I entreat you do not miss it, for it is some-s-thing to write to your home of. 'Up at the tower, then?
I relieved his apprehensions on that head: 'Here and there, rarely; and only at the hotels, I believe. The excuse was furnished for offering the princess's address. 'Possibly, in a year or two, we may have the pleasure of welcoming you at Sarkeld, said the prince, extending his hand. 'Then, you have seen the Countess of Delzenburg? 'On the day of her arrival, your Highness.
My old friend was spied first by his sweetheart Lucy, winding dilatorily over the hill away from Sarkeld, in one of the carriages sent to meet him. He was guilty of wasting a prodigious number of minutes with his trumpery 'How d' ye do's, and his glances and excuses, and then I had him up in my room, and the tale was told; it was not Temple's fault if he did not begin straightforwardly.
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