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I am pleased to say that von Jagow saw my point of view and finally secured permission for Lieutenant Goschen to leave for England. Dr. Ohnesorg, one of our assistant Naval Attaches, went with him to England on account of the seriousness of his condition, and I was very glad to hear from his father that he had arrived safely in London.
Then came one of her sudden laughs. "What is it?" asked Von Rosen. "Oh, nothing, except that the cat is usually there too," replied Annie. Von Rosen looked back boyishly. "Be sure I shall see you next time and hang the cat," he said. When Annie was in her room unclasping her corals, she considered how very much mortified and troubled her friend, Margaret Edes, must feel.
Darwin's work is the greatest contribution which has been made to biological science since the publication of the "Regne Animal" of Cuvier, and since that of the "History of Development," of Von Baer.
"You don't mean to tell me," Miss Scrotton said, after some moments of hardly held patience, "that it's Gregory?" Madame von Marwitz, having finished her second letter, was gazing before her with a somewhat ambiguous expression. "Tallie speaks well of him," she remarked at last. "He has made a very good impression on Tallie." "Are you speaking of Gregory Jardine, Mercedes?" Miss Scrotton repeated.
Again, after the battle of the Marne, he took advantage of German discouragement, apparently receiving a hint from Johann von Bernstorff, German Ambassador in Washington, to sound the belligerents on the possibility of an arrangement. Failing a second time to elicit serious consideration of peace, he withdrew to wait for a better opportunity.
He could read the latter's child eyes like the clear characters of a book, and neither the radiant glow on her face at Heinz Schorlin's entrance nor her hostile glance at the Countess von Montfort had escaped his notice. Both her affection and her jealous resentment should serve him.
Doctor Von Hoogius I think he called himself; and his travelling about with my little Master had given him just such a smattering of Tongues as to enable him to speak Broken English with just so much of a foreign accent as to make it unlike a Brogue or a Burr.
The two daughters would surely marry, when they had reached a suitable age with officers of the Hussars whose names bore the magic "von" of petty nobility, haughty and charming gentlemen about whom the daughter of Misia Petrona waxed most enthusiastic. The establishment of the Hartrotts was in keeping with these new relationships.
The field-cornet drew consolation from this last reflection. Perhaps their next encounter would have a different ending. Perhaps a pair of tusks would reward them. The hope of such a result, as well as the anxiety about it, determined Von Bloom to lose no time in making a fresh trial. Next morning, therefore, before the sun was up, the hunters were once more upon the trail of their giant game.
Professor von Harnack, head of the Royal Library in Berlin, is one of the ablest of the German professors. In his speech he gave expression to the feeling that was prevalent in the first days of the war that Germany was defending itself against a Russian invasion which threatened to blot out the German Kultur.
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