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She left me at the beginning of September, and wrote to me about her stay in Weimar, where the Princess Wittgenstein had received her with the greatest hospitality at Altenburg Castle. There she met Rockel's wife, who was being cared for in the most self-sacrificing way by her husband's brother.
The jubilee of the "Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes" was celebrated in Altenburg on October 9, 1892, contemporaneously with the commencement of the brilliant celebration of the golden wedding of the Grand Duke and Duchess in Weimar. As exceptional as the celebration are the characteristics which distinguish this august couple.
"Oh, very probably!" said his Highness, and he noted with pleasure that he spoke quite as if it did not matter. "Nevertheless, this was a despicable trick to play upon the Grand Duchess." "Yet I do not think the Grand Duchess will complain," said the Baroness von Altenburg. And it was as though a light broke on the Grand Duke. "You planned all this beforehand?" he inquired.
Between Wartburg and Altenburg, on the northern border of Thüringen, lies Weimar, the classical City of the Muses, and, close by it, our national university of Jena. I regard it as a good omen that precisely at this moment a rare celebration should have called together in Weimar the most illustrious patrons of the university of Jena, the defenders of free research and free teaching.
The Baroness von Altenburg was not disposed to argue the singularity of any such agreement, the while that she considered Louis de Soyecourt's latest scheme.
I saw his theatre; it pleased me fairly well, and a new acquisition he had made, a tenor, pleased me very much. "Ollivier," whom I did not meet till yesterday, and with whom I am going to dine en garcon today, received me with such amiable kindness that I imagined I had arrived at "Altenburg."
The young Count Von Altenburg was tranquilly pursuing his route in that sober jog-trot way in which a man travels toward matrimony when his friends have taken all the trouble and uncertainty of courtship off his hands and a bride is waiting for him as certainly as a dinner at the end of his journey.
Greet the Altenburg with a will, and tell the dear ladies that they are to hold me in kind remembrance. The blessings of a world on you, my Franz. Farewell. Your R. W. I intend to go to Paris in order to look after my interests there.
In this month, September, 1830, popular disturbances, but of minor import, broke out also at Jena and Kahla, Altenburg, and Gera. In Hanover, the first symptoms of revolution appeared in January, 1831. Dr. Koenig was at that time at the head of the university of Osterode, Dr. Rauschenplatt of that of Goettingen.
"I will not believe it even of you!" cried the Baroness von Altenburg. "I assure you," his Highness protested, gravely, "I was then a devil of a fellow! She was only twenty, and she, too, had big green eyes " "And by this late period," said the lady, "has in addition an infinity of grandchildren." "I happen to be barely forty!" the Grand Duke said, with dignity.
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