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"Am I to understand, then, that we are to have no dinner?" asked his Highness, angry and agitated. "Mr. Beckendorff never takes anything after his noon meal, sir; but I am sure that if you and your friend are hungry, sir, I hope there is never a want in this house." "My good lady, I am hungry, very hungry, indeed; and if your master, I mean Mr. von, that is Mr.
On the second night of your visit a messenger arrived with a despatch, advising Beckendorff of the intended arrival of his Royal Highness on the next morning. The ludicrous intrusion of your amusing servant prevented you from being present at the great interview, in which I understand Beckendorff for the moment laid aside all his caprices. Our friend acted with great firmness and energy.
Beckendorff how ridiculous he considered his present use of the incognito. "You think so, sir, do you?" answered Beckendorff, sarcastically. They had now arrived at the gate by which Vivian had reached the road. "Your course, sir," said Mr. Beckendorff, "lies that way. I see, like myself, you are no great talker. We shall meet at breakfast."
At the little gate Vivian and Essper encountered the only male attendant who was allowed to approach the house of Mr. Beckendorff.
"Not at all! I take dummy! I am not sure it is not the finest way of playing the game." The table was arranged, the lights brought, the cards produced, and the Prince of Little Lilliput, greatly to his surprise, found himself playing whist with Mr. Beckendorff. Nothing could be more dull.
If ever you know her as well as I do, you will find her vain, superficial, heartless; her sentiment a system, her enthusiasm exaggeration, and her genius merely a clever adoption of the profundity of others." "And Beckendorff and the lady are not friendly?" asked Vivian, who was delighted with his communicative companion. "Beckendorff's is a mind that such a woman cannot comprehend.
It was with great mortification therefore, that he found him accompanied by a shrewd, experienced, wary, and educated Englishman. A man like Beckendorff soon discovered that Vivian Grey's was no common mind.
"Mr. von Philipson," said Beckendorff, suddenly turning round, "all my fruits and all my vegetables are from my own garden. Let us sit down and help ourselves." The only substantial food at table was a great dish of game.
The first rubber lasted an hour and a half, three long games, which Mr. Beckendorff, to his triumph, hardly won. In the first game of the second rubber Vivian blundered; in the second he revoked; and in the third, having neglected to play, and being loudly called upon, and rated both by his partner and Mr. Beckendorff, he was found to be asleep.
At the very Congress which, according to the expectations of the exiled Princes, was to restore them to their own dominions, and to reward their patriotic loyalty with the territories of their revolutionary brethren; yes! at this very Congress was Beckendorff; not as a suppliant, not as a victim, but seated at the right hand of Metternich, and watching, with parental affection, the first interesting and infantile movements of that most prosperous of political bantlings, the Holy Alliance.
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