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A short time before, he had commanded the Catholic clergy not to perform any marriage ceremony without special permission and legitimation; and his anger was aroused at their daring to disobey him, and in secrecy and silence to marry Barbarina and Cocceji.
So Cocceji went down on his knees and kissed his hand, and called him his lord and king, and the people of the mill, who had never dreamed who it was, all dropped on their knees and begged for mercy. So the king then forgave everybody, and went back to Warsaw with Cocceji. "A strange and sad history," said the Countess Anna.
"If the two Italian kings resemble the great Frederick, they will adopt this plan with enthusiasm." He had risen, and stepped hastily backward and forward, now and then murmuring a few disconnected words; he then drew near the table and stood earnestly regarding the maps. Cocceji did not dare to interrupt him by word or sound; he watched him, however, closely.
The king, signora, no longer favors you; the king has promised us his assistance. "That is false!" cried Barbarina. "It is true! and it is true that the king, in order to protect the house of Cocceji from this shame, has given my husband authority to arrest my son and cast him into prison, provided my prayers and tears and menaces should be of no avail!
He rejected the bold propositions of Frederick entirely, and said, in justification of himself, that since the alliance between the powers of France and Austria, he had his head between a pair of tongs, which were ever threatening to close and crush him. Baron Cocceji was not more fortunate in Naples, and after many vain efforts he was forced to return home, having accomplished nothing.
On entering, with the proper Address or complimentary Harangue, they found his Czarish Majesty "standing between two Russian Ladies," clearly Ladies of the above sort; for they stood close by him, one of his arms was round the neck of each, and his hands amused themselves by taking liberties in that posture, all the time Cocceji spoke. Nay, even this was as nothing among the Magdeburg phenomena.
"Tell him that Madame Cocceji has gone to Potsdam, to announce her marriage to the king, and ask him to acknowledge it." "Barbarina," whispered her sister, "hear me! Your husband is troubled and sorrowful; he has confided in me. He says he fears you did not marry him from love, but for revenge, and that you love him not." "I am resolved to love him! I will learn how," said she, sadly.
Chancellor Cocceji was far from thinking it triumphant to him. The Herr President von Jarriges and Privy-Councillor Loper are hereby officially requested to bring the remainder of the Voltaire Sentence to its fulfilment: I am myself not well, and can employ my time much better. So wrote Chancellor Cocceji, on the Saturday, washing his hands of this sorry business.
"Not so, your worship; there will only be a few blue swellings and bleeding noses nothing more," said Cocceji, laughing. "Ah, you laugh young man; you laugh at this sad spectacle!" "Forgive me, your worship; but I swear to you, I have never seen warriors more eager in the fray, and I have never been more curious to witness the result of any battle."
"Ah, sire, you do not, think so pitifully of me as to suppose I care for a title?" "You married the Councillor Cocceji, then, from love?" said the king. Barbarina looked at the king steadily. "No, sire, I did not marry him for love." "Why, then, did you marry him?" "To save myself, sire to save myself, and because I could not learn to forget.
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