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Once Miss Fermor, passing the rich man on the arm of her partner, surprised the watchful gray eyes with a new look in them a look that was neither cold nor stern. "So, my gentleman," thought the lively Lizzie, "is it that way your fancies are drifting? It was I whom you suspected of dangerous designs the other day, Miss Granger. Take care your papa doesn't fall into a deeper pitfall.
Of Fermor's red-hot savagery on Custrin, it is lamentably necessary we should say something: to say much would he a waste of record; as the thing itself was a waste of powder. A thing hideous to think of; without the least profit to Fermor, but with total ruin to all the inhabitants, and to the many strangers who had sought refuge there. One interior circumstance is memorable and lucky to us.
The Russian army at once marched away from Colbert; not however, as Frederick hoped, back to Poland but, in agreement with Daun, to make a rush on Berlin. One force, twenty thousand strong, crossed the Oder. The main body, under Fermor, for Soltikoff had fallen sick, moved to Frankfort; while Lacy, with fifteen thousand, marched from Silesia.
At Fermor's own request, as Fermor pretended, who was skilled in Petersburg politics, and with a cheerful face served thenceforth as Soltikof's second. At Posen, as on the road thither, they find Sulkowski's and the other burnt provenders abundantly replaced: it is evident they intend, in concert with Daun, to enclose Friedrich between two fires, and do something considerable.
Its motif was the theft by a certain Lord Petre of one of the tresses of Miss Arabella or "Belle" Fermor, and this venial larceny having somewhat strained the relations of the two families concerned, Pope was invited to compose matters by invocation of the Muse.
Whose Cossacks, and their devil-like ravagings, are hideous to think of: unrestrainable by Dohna, unless he could cut the root of them; which he cannot. Precisely about which day Fermor had decided for Brandenburg, and rolled over thither, towards Custrin and the Frankfurt-on-Oder Country, heralded by fire and murder, as usual." Friedrich's march to Landshut is, again, much admired.
It must have been her own fault, of course; such a woman as this could have been a duchess if she pleased, Clarissa thought. Lizzy Fermor came up to her while she was admiring the high-bred beauty. "Well, Miss Lovel, what do you think of her?" "Lady Geraldine? I think she is wonderfully handsome and fascinating." "Do you?
Friday, 11th August, Friedrich himself, with the other Half, pushes off towards Fermor and the Cossack demons; through Liegnitz, through Hohenfriedberg Country, straight for Frankfurt, with his best speed. Five days ago, the Russians, attempting blindly on the Garrison of Custrin, had burnt, nothing of the Garrison at all, but the poor little Town altogether.
A flat impossibility. Fermor, aware of these facts, remembers what happened at Oczakow, long ago, in our presence, and Keith's and Munnich's, if the reader have not quite forgot. Munnich, on that occasion, took Oczakow without any siege-furniture whatever, by boldly marching up to it; nothing but audacity and good luck on his side.
I don't believe you could come across so much as a hot potato on a Sunday in one of my cottages." "And do the husbands like the cold dinners?" Miss Fermor asked rather flippantly. "I should hope that spiritual advantage would prevail over temporal luxury, even in their half-awakened minds," replied Miss Granger. "I have never inquired about their feelings on the subject.
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