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Updated: May 13, 2025
Who told you of it?" "Hush, Antoinette, you will awaken the king's suspicion, for all eyes are upon us! Will you admit me?" "Yes, I will send Louis to conduct you this afternoon." And withdrawing herself from her brother's arms, the queen and the royal family took leave of Count Falkenstein.
Fatigued with the ascent, he rested for a brief space at the entrance to the castle ere mounting to the tower. The Lord of Falkenstein and his daughter had beheld Kunos journey up the rugged path from the windows of the tower, and the father demanded for what purpose he had come thither.
For the 2d and the following days I have been invited to go on a royal hunt to the Falkenstein.
Like his brother Maximilian, he too traveled incognito, under the title of the Count Falkenstein; and he persisted in maintaining his disguise so absolutely that he refused to occupy the apartments which the queen had prepared for him in the palace, and insisted on taking up his quarters with Mercy in Paris, and at a hotel, for the few days which he passed at Versailles.
"That was a sly question, and shows that little Falkenstein has been peeping behind the scenes and has discovered that we were prepared for his coming." "Yes, your highness. It would appear that Count Falkenstein does not quite believe in our enormous wealth; for after seeing the mint, he put on that mocking smile of his, and asked whether the Imperial Bank was in a condition to redeem its issue."
As for the king, he was only anxious to get back to Falkenstein, and have the whole business settled in a constitutional manner. The ambassador was not sorry to get rid of the royal party; and it was proposed that they should all sit down on the flying carpet, and wish themselves at home again.
It was the same alternative which had presented itself to him about Schleswig-Holstein; now, as then, annexation was what he aimed at, and he was not the man easily to reconcile himself to a less favourable solution. At the same time that he wrote this letter he sent orders that Falkenstein should quickly occupy all the territory north of the Main.
"The emperor!" exclaimed she, rising and coming joyfully forward, while a deep blush overspread her face. "What! Will you not respect my incognito? Will you not receive me as Count Falkenstein?" "Is not the name of the emperor the first that is pronounced by the priest when he prays before the altar for his fellow-creatures?" replied she, with an enchanting smile.
Spring was casting her bright beams over waves and mountains in the valley of the Rhine, but in Falkenstein castle no ray of sunshine penetrated the gloom. Guta, pale and unhappy, sat within its walls, weaving dreams which seemed destined never to be fulfilled.
The painful silence which followed was broken by a stifled cry, and the knight's daughter, pale as the covering on the festive board, sank unconscious to the floor. With burning cheek and flashing eye the young lord of Falkenstein rose, and with a firm voice exclaimed, "Mechtildis belongs to me; she has solemnly given herself to me forever."
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