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Dined with Mr N. M. Rothschild; met there Prince Esterhazy, Duke of St Albans, his brother and two sisters, Lady Augusta Cotton, a son of Lord Coventry, and the Earl of Lauderdale. April 13th. The Emperor Nicholas insists upon the Turks evacuating Moldavia. April 16th. June 20th.
A very interesting passage is given in the 'Memoirs of Charles Greville', who says that Prince Esterhazy told him a great deal about the Duke of Reichstadt, who, if he had lived, would have probably played a great part in the world.
Franz Schubert, with his youth and his wreaths of fame, his homely face and soul of fire, is dead these many years; but the soul of fire is not dead.... The Countess Esterhazy, framed for love, is dust and ashes in her marble house. The night music plays over her tomb. The night music plays wherever night is. PARIS, October 6, 1837. It has rained all day. No one has been in.
"You hear him! Rothschild says 'that's all. Prince Esterhazy says he hasn't another red cent only two hundred thousand dollars." "What ought I to do, boys?" asked Barker, timidly glancing from one to the other. Yet he remembered with delight all that day, and for many a year afterward, that he saw in their faces only unselfish joy and affection at that supreme moment.
Freeing herself with such violence that Esterhazy reeled backward with the shock, she exclaimed: "You are worse than a coward, for you would take advantage of rights which my hatred has annulled forever." "But, Margaret, my wife " "Count Esterhazy," said Margaret slowly, "I forbid you ever to use that word in this room.
Puzzling as this seemed, the first words she spoke gave the explanation. 'Don't flatter yourself, most valiant soldier, that you are going to teach me the "Czardasz." I learned it years ago from Tassilo Esterhazy; but I asked you to come here to set me right about that half-minuet step that begins it.
And he drew out his delicate, embroidered handkerchief to wipe off the big drops of sweat that stood upon his forehead. "Well?" asked Count Starhemberg, opening the door and putting through his head. "Pray come in," said Esterhazy, in a piteous tone. "Ah, my niece has left! Well, I suppose that, as usual, she has conquered, and you release her?"
There are very few even tolerably old houses left here; the little streets are of the modern villa order, and the great square tavern, with its tea-gardens and merry-go-rounds, its shooting-galleries and penny-in-the-slot machines, has vulgarized the place. Prince Esterhazy is said to have taken a house in the Vale of Health in 1840; this has been "long since pulled down."
Ermenonville, the burial-place of Rousseau. Escape from prison by the Countess de la Mothe; the royal family preparing to; arrested at Varennes and brought back. Esterhazy, Count. Etiquette, strictness of court; relaxation of. Ettenheim, Cardinal de Rohan dies at. Execution of M. de Favras. Expenses, court, retrenchment in. Expostulation of the Emperor Maximilian with his sister.
Marie Antoinette looked after her clumsy king with a beating heart. "Am I, indeed, to be blessed with his love?" thought the poor, young thing. "If I am, I shall be the happiest and most enviable of women." The carriage of the Countess Esterhazy was returning from a ball which the empress had given in honor of her son's departure from Vienna.
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