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Updated: May 1, 2025
The arrival of the Proveditore Marcello at Gradiska, and his subsequent recognition of his jewels at the ball, having destroyed Strasolda's hopes of obtaining her father's liberation through the intervention of the archducal counsellors, the high-spirited maiden resolved to execute a plan she had herself devised, and which, although in the highest degree rash and hazardous, might still succeed if favoured by circumstances and conducted with skill and decision.
Nay, he besought me to coincide in his excuses of a widely charming young archduchess, for whom no estimable husband of a fitting rank could anywhere be discovered, so she had to be bestowed upon an archducal imbecile; and hence and hence Oh, certainly! Generous youth and benevolent age joined hands of exoneration over her.
In a richly furnished apartment of the castle, the young and handsome wife of one of the archducal counsellors was pacing up and down, her full and voluptuous form reflected on every side by the tall Venetian mirrors that covered the walls of the apartment.
The necessity appeared the greater, because the suspicion prevailed among many of the citizens that Austria, sure of the secret approval of the head of the Empire, would use the favorable moment to take possession of a place so well situated on the frontier. The behavior of the Archducal Vicegerent, Marcus Sittich von Ems, strengthened the suspicion.
The consternation of the whole party may be imagined when, just as they conceived themselves secure of success, they thus discovered that their design had been betrayed; nor was it until the Princess had exhausted every subterfuge she could invent that she found herself compelled to accompany the Archducal envoy.
This you would never have dared to do, but with the approval and connivance of the archducal government." The eyes of the pirate sparkled with a strange and significant gleam as the Proveditore recalled the circumstance to his recollection. "Know ye not," said he with a grim smile, "whom ye have to thank for that good office?
"Do you intend shortly to quit the archducal seat?" asked Sylvester, by way of an agreeable remark. "I have the strongest obligations to be at home," I returned. "I only await your kind assistance about my passport." "It is expected at the office, but I fear it will not be received in time for you to take the next train.
He was a musician and a man of culture qualities that, in a prince, must be taken as dangerous indications of an unbalanced mind. He was an intimate friend of the Crown Prince Rudolph, that bewildering personality, whose own fate was so unhappy, so obscure. Skill in war, intelligence, knowledge, friendship all marked him out as a man only too likely to bring discredit on Archducal tradition.
This would be the signal for the withdrawal of the archducal protection from the pirates, who then, exposed to the vengeance of all whom they had plundered, must inevitably succumb in the unequal conflict that would ensue. The imminence of the peril inspired the Uzcoques with unwonted courage and energy.
"It shall be as you want," I said, and dispatched Major Moore to the Radnor Box with the invitation. When he returned, I stepped into the corridor and gave him explicit instructions as to the supper. I had encouraged both him and Bernheim to intimate when I was about to make an Archducal faux pas, and I saw he did not approve of the public table. But I gave no heed.
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