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Neither was I responsible for the style of the campaign. Madeline Spencer deserved no consideration from me and no more did her visitor. I had, yet, an hour to spare, so Bernheim and I returned to the Epsau. I donned the evening uniform of the Red Huzzars, with the broad Ribbon of the Lion across my breast and the Cincinnati around my neck. I was minded to be the Dalberg Archduke to-night.
My last order, before we left the Epsau, was that you were indisposed and had retired and, on no account, were you to be disturbed without Bernheim's express permission. But, servants are purchasable and spies are plenty, and Lotzen knows how to reach the first and use the second. On the whole, it is likely he has been advised that you are here, though he may not know your costume.
I confess this was my most congenial labor. If I might have been simply a soldier Archduke, I think I would have been entirely satisfied. After a few weeks I had taken up my residence in the Epsau Palace one of my recent inheritances and there maintained my own Archducal Court. It was a bit hard for me to take myself seriously and to accept calmly the obsequious deference accorded me by everyone.
"You remain exactly what you were before the Decree was signed," he said. She turned to me. "Since I am to live in Dornlitz the rest of my days, where is it your gracious purpose that I reside in the Epsau Palace or where?" "Except to assure you it will not be in the Epsau, it is no concern of mine where you live," I answered.
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