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He had a sore toilsome time of it, coercing, warring, managing among his fellow-creatures, while his day's work lasted, fifty years or so, for it began early. He died in his Castle of Ballenstadt, peaceably among the Hartz Mountains at last, in the year 1170, age about sixty-five.
Ballenstadt is still older; Ballenstadt was of age in Charlemagne's time; and is still a respectable little Town in that upland range of country. He made a clutch at the Southern too, but did not long retain that.
The Ascanier had to be content with the more pristine state of acquisitions, high pedigrees, old castles of Ascanien and Ballenstadt, territories of Anhalt or what else they had; and never rose again to the lost height, though the race still lives, and has qualities besides its pedigree.
Be thankful for any hook whatever on which to hang half an acre of thrums in fixed position, out of your way; the smallest flint-spark, in a world all black and unrememberable, will be welcome." And so we return to Brandenburg and the "ASCANIEN and BALLENSTADT" series of Markgraves.
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