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I fancy, Herr Vice-palatine, we may be able to find a more sensible subject for discussion. There is a quiet little nook in this old castle where are to be found some excellent wines, and some of the best latakia you " "What?" with lively interest interrupted the vice-palatine. "Latakia? Why, that is tobacco." "Certainly and Turkish tobacco, too, at that!" responded Count Vavel.
"What became of them when the city capitulated?" "All in good time, Herr Count, all in good time! I can tell you all about them, for I am just come from them." "Were they in any danger?" "Danger? No, indeed! When the city surrendered they were concealed in a house where they passed as the nieces of the Herr Vice-palatine Görömbölyi." "Is the vice-palatine with them now?" "Certainly.
"Hum! if everybody was as generous as you two, then robbery would become a lucrative business!" "You must remember," Katharina made haste to protest, "that all this has been told to the matrimonial emissary, and not to the vice-palatine. On no account are any arrests to be made!" "I will suggest a plan to the Herr Vice-palatine," said Count Vavel.
Here he found awaiting him two old acquaintances the vice-palatine and the young attorney from Pest, each of them wearing the light-blue dolman.
The laurels which his clerk had won made the vice-palatine jealous. "Audiat," he said, in a reproving tone, "you ought to learn that a young person should speak only when spoken to; indeed, as the learned Professor Hatvani says, even then it is not necessary to answer all questions." But the company around the dinner-table did not share these views.
Three wooden benches, joined together in a half-circle, formed a comfortable resting-place for the committee of reception, the chief of whom, the vice-palatine, was seated on the middle bench, drawing through the stem of his huge carved meerschaum the smoke of the sweet Veker tobacco.
With these words she drew the violets from her corsage, and fastened them in Herr Bernat's buttonhole. Hereupon the gallant vice-palatine forgot his ceremonious intentions. He seized the maid's hand, pressed it against his stiffly waxed mustache, and muttered, with a wary glance toward Count Vavel: "I am sorry this pretty little hand belongs to those messieurs Frenchmen!"
Will you, Herr Vice-palatine and Colonel, undertake this mission for me?" "Of all my missions this will be the most agreeable!" heartily responded Herr Bernat. "You know to whom I would have you go," resumed the count. "It is not far from here. You know who the lady is without my repeating her name.
Consequently, Herr Vice-palatine Bernat Görömbölyi von Dravakeresztur did not hesitate to immolate himself on the sacrificial altar when his attention was directed by his superior to Section 1 of Article II. in the laws enacted by the Diet in the year 1808.
In one of his gloomiest, most dissatisfied hours, he heard the sound of a spurred boot in the silent corridor. It was an old acquaintance, the vice-palatine. He did not remove his hat, which was ornamented with an eagle's feather, when he entered the count's study, and ostentatiously clinked the sword in its sheath which hung at his side.
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