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Updated: June 3, 2025
Just recently the well-known conductor, Karl Eckert, had been entrusted with the technical management of the Opera.
You are well acquainted with it, Pollnitz; it is the house which my father had built for Eckert, the beautiful house in Jager Street." "The house in Jager Street!" cried Pollnitz, forgetting the restraint which the presence of the king usually imposed. "No, no, your majesty is pleased to jest. You do not mean the house in Jager Street, that house which "
Attempts at settlement were made in their behalf, and dragged wearily, due apparently to the fact that the plans were blocked by General Eckert, who had in some manner taken offence at a transaction effected without his active participation in all the details.
Eckert muttered some confused words, and tried to force Pollnitz from the door, before which the hard-hearted, spiteful courtier had placed himself, like the angel with the avenging sword. "You wish to go," said he, with assumed kindliness. "Oh, without doubt you wish to see the royal commands now awaiting you at your house.
They were to meet at Holcomb's house at eight o'clock in the evening of the appointed day and go together to the scene of their vigil, where certain arrangements for their comfort, a provision of fuel and the like, for the season was winter, had been already made. Palmer did not keep the engagement, and after waiting a half-hour for him the others went to the Eckert house without him.
Lincoln cannot have an interview with the two named in this dispatch, if not all three now within our lines. Their letter to me was all that the President's instructions contemplated to secure their safe conduct, if they had used the same language to Major Eckert. "U. S. GRANT, "Lieutenant General. "Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, "Secretary of War." Mr.
The two had supper together, and Sargeant proposed the theatre. "No, no; I've got to work to-night," asserted Condy. After dinner, while they were smoking their cigars in a window of the main room, one of the hall-boys came up and touched Condy on the arm. "Mr. Eckert, and Mr. Hendricks, and Mr.
As we jogged along, said he: "Now, do you know where the fault lies? It lies in putting Eckert on his guard. The minute the boys go to pumping at Eckert he knows perfectly well what they are after, and of course he shuts up his shell. Anybody might know he would. But when we get there, we must play him finer than that.
"It was the privy councillor Von Eckert, sire," said Count Hacke, with an ironical smile. Eckert bowed. "He entered the chamber as if going to battle," exclaimed Von Pollnitz, laughing.
You even swore to the king that the people had enough, and did not need his corn or his help! Listen, the people shout again; I will not detain you. Go and look upon this happy people. The king has opened the granaries and scattered bread far and wide, and the tax upon meal is removed for a month. Go, dear Eckert, go and see how happy the people are!" See King's "History of Berlin," vol. v.
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