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"Just as little as Victoria can deny that she was the person who had informed Lehrbach and Barbaczy of the courier's departure," said Bonnier; "for, fifteen minutes before setting out, the courier himself did not know any thing about his mission; and the dispatches, of course, were of the most harmless description.
"Well, my friend, all I ask is this: send to-morrow six of your bravest and wildest hussars to my house, and order them faithfully to carry out what Count Lehrbach and I shall tell them." "The hussars shall halt at your door to-morrow morning at nine o'clock," said Barbaczy, resolutely. "And I will admit them!" exclaimed Victoria, smiling. "You will be here, Count Lehrbach, I suppose?"
"But my beautiful Victoria shall not lack seconds to furnish her weapons, and to do every thing she wants them to do." "Who are my seconds?" "Count Lehrbach and Colonel Barbaczy." "Ah, Barbaczy, whose acquaintance we made at Giurgewo?" "The same. A bold, intrepid man, who is not afraid of anybody neither of God nor of the devil."
"The world will not grudge these hot-blooded French a little blood- letting, and it will praise your surgical skill, my dear Barbaczy," exclaimed Lehrbach, laughing. "The responsibility, besides, does not fall on your shoulders. Who will blame you if your hot-blooded hussars commit some excesses-some highway robberies?
You do not order them to assassinate anybody; you only order them to take the papers from the ambassadors, and only to use force if it cannot be helped." "I shall send fifty hussars to the city to-morrow," said Barbaczy, thoughtfully.
"No, we shall not betray each other!" repeated Victoria and Barbaczy, with uplifted hands. "To-morrow, then!" said Victoria. "Now, good-night, gentlemen!" Early on the next day a strange and exciting report pervaded the city of Rastadt. Austrian regiments were encamped all round the city, and Sczekler hussars held all the gates.
Late in the evening of that day, when all Rastadt was sleeping, Victoria received in her house her two powerful assistants, Count Lehrbach and Colonel Barbaczy, the latter having been invited by a mounted messenger to come to her from Gernsbach.
"Fie, what ugly words those are! and who thinks of murder?" exclaimed Victoria. "Did we Germans die, then, of the numerous kicks and blows which the French have given us for the last few years? We will only return those kicks and blows, and the French will assuredly not be so thin-skinned as to die of them on the spot." "Do as you please," sighed Barbaczy.
They have drawn up a joint letter to Colonel Barbaczy, requiring him to give them a written pledge that there would be no interference with the free departure of the French ambassadors, and that the safety of the latter would not be endangered. Count Goertz, therefore, requests us not to set out until a written reply has been made to the letter of the ambassadors.
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