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And from that I went on to talk about the Super Man, for this encounter had suddenly crystallised out a set of realisations that had been for some time latent in my mind. How much of what follows I said to de Tessin at the time I do not clearly remember, but this is what I had in mind.
In the upper room of the Main-Guard he found Major Shackleton of the Tangier Foot taking a hand at bassette with Lieutenant Scrope of Trelawney's Regiment and young Captain Tessin of the King's Battalion. There were three other officers in the room, and to them Surgeon Wyley began to talk in a prosy, medical strain.
Ah, if you had guessed my mission, how smilingly you would have greeted the Count Tessin!" The gentlemen diplomatists are sometimes outwitted. The reader has learned, from the foregoing chapters, what a splendid role the French theatre and ballet were now playing at the court of Berlin.
So saying, Amelia bowed slightingly, and, turning aside, she summoned Madame von Kleist, and commenced a merry chat with her. Count Tessin regarded her with a dark and scornful glance, and pressed his lips tightly together, as if to restrain his anger. "I beseech you, count," said Ulrica, in a low, soft voice, "not to be offended at the thoughtless words of my dear little sister.
In Spain, in the Canton of Tessin, at Frankfort, in the Hanseatic towns, at Stettin, at Custrin, at Dantzig, the troops were ordered to carry out the searches and seizures. A few dependent or vanquished sovereigns Saxony or Prussia, for example themselves consented to make the required requisitions.
Here I did business with several Persons of Consideration; the Senators B c i and Delia G , the rich Banker L , and Monsignore the Archprelate X . So by Cortona, where there is a strong Castle on a Hill, to Pavia, an old decaying City on the River Tessin, which is so rapid that Bishop Burnet says he ran down the Stream thirty miles in three hours by the help of one Rower only.
The mechanical work of perforation was begun simultaneously on the north and south sides of the mountain, working toward the same point, so as to meet toward the middle of the boring. The waters of the Reuss and the Tessin supplied the necessary motive power for working the screws attached to machinery for compressing the air.
Tessin and Major Shackleton looked suddenly towards Wyley in recognition of the accuracy of his guess. Scrope simply wiped the perspiration from his forehead and waited. "But how does that forgetfulness, shall we say? persuade you to the fear that you played the coward?" asked Wyley. "Well," replied Knightley, and his voice sank to a whisper, "I played the coward afterwards at Mequinez.
One of the officers shuffled his feet. Tessin said "Hush!" Knightley took a step forward and dropped a hand on Scrope's shoulder, very lightly; but none the less Scrope started and turned white as though he had been stabbed. "Harry," said the Ensign, "my my wife is still in Tangier?" Scrope drew in a breath. "Yes." "Ah, waiting for me! You have shown her what kindness you could during my slavery?"
He informed them that Count Tessin, the Swedish ambassador, would be present at the ball; that he was sent to Berlin to select a wife for the prince royal of Sweden, or, rather, to receive one; the choice, it appeared, had been already made, as the count had asked the king if he might make proposals for the hand of the Princess Amelia, or if she were already promised in marriage.
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