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To extend his information, already very considerable, on mineralogical science, Humboldt in 1791 repaired to Freyburg, to profit by the instructions of the celebrated Werner; and, when there, he devoted himself, with the characteristic ardour of his disposition, to make himself master of geology and botany, and prosecuted in an especial manner the study of the fossil remains of plants in the rocks around that place.
I directed my lorgnette at her, and observed that she smiled at his glance and that my insolent lorgnette made her downright angry. And how, indeed, should a Caucasian military man presume to direct his eyeglass at a princess from Moscow?... THIS morning the doctor came to see me. His name is Werner, but he is a Russian. What is there surprising in that?
I believe he's innocent at least as far as I've gone in the case." I determined to stick to my opinion. "I believe it's Werner," I insisted. "By the time you've dug up all the gossip about Gordon and Shirley you won't be so sure, Walter." I was, however.
"But three of us, I notice, are to do all the speaking," Werner growled to himself. "Next thing to being President of the United States I'd be president of the Workers of the World and the last's the safest job." Koppy went to the window and looked through into the darkening shadows. A man slid through the undergrowth out there and disappeared. Several more drifted in and out of sight.
Werner, pray do not shout so dreadfully," said Gentz, anxiously; "my ears are very sensitive, and such shouting terrifies me as much as a thunderstorm. I am quite willing to pay you, only point out to me a way to do it!" "Borrow money of other people and then pay me!" "My dear sir, that is a way I have exhausted long ago.
Werner again shrugged his shoulders and felt his pulse, his heart was beating faster than usual, but soundly and evenly, with a specially ringing throb. He looked about once more, attentively, like a novice for the first time in prison, examined the walls, the bolts, the chair which was screwed to the floor, and thought: "Why do I feel so easy, so joyous and free? Yes, so free?
And now the mazurka came to an end and we separated until we should meet again. The ladies drove off in different directions. I went to get some supper, and met Werner. "Aha!" he said: "so it is you! And yet you did not wish to make the acquaintance of Princess Mary otherwise than by saving her from certain death." "I have done better," I replied. "I have saved her from fainting at the ball"...
He then dashed it down, sighed, and shook himself. 'Rare news! the Kaiser's come: he'll be in Cologne by night; but first he must see the Baron, and I'm post with the order. That's to show you how high he stands in the Kaiser's grace. Don't be thinking of upsetting Werner yet, any of you; mind, now!
And attacks now, as with wings, the astonished Russian 15,000, who were looking for nothing like him, with wings, with claws, and with beak; and in a highly aquiline manner, fierce, swift, skilful, storms these intrenched Russians straightway, scatters them to pieces, and next day is in Colberg, the Siege raising itself with great precipitation; leaving all its artilleries and furnitures, rushing on shipboard all of it that can get, the very ships-of-war, says Archenholtz, hurrying dangerously out to sea, as if the Prussian Hussars might possibly take THEM. A glorious Werner!
It was young Hatton Harry Hatton whose aristocratic nose he had punched six months before, in the Hatton Pulp and Paper Mill. And even as he stared young Hatton fixed him with his eye, and then came over to him and said, "It's all right, Werner." Buzz Werner could only salute with awkward respect, while with one great gulp his heart slid back into normal place.
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