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Updated: May 14, 2025
Old histories tell us, that the great Emperor Charlemagne stamped his edicts with the hilt of his sword. The greater Emperor, Death, stamps his with the blade; and they are signed and executed with the same stroke. Flemming received that night a letter from Heidelberg, which told him, that Emma of Ilmenau was dead. The fate of this poor girl affected him deeply; and he said in his heart;
Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so. If it had been a hearse instead of a post-chaise, it would have been all the same to the people of Heidelberg, though by no means the same to Paul Flemming.
Make mine and Lady Chesterfield's compliments to Comte et Comtesse Flemming; and so, 'Dieu vous aye en sa sainte garde'! BLACKHEATH, September 14, 1764
When the learned Thomas Diafoirus wooed the fair Angelique, he drew from his pocket a medical thesis, and presented it to her, as the first-fruits of his genius; and at the same time, invited her, with her father's permission, to attend the dissection of a woman, upon whom he was to lecture. Paul Flemming did nearly the same thing; and so often, that it had become a habit.
Martin Flemming turned to his wife with a smile lighting up his somewhat sombre face. "We shall have a quiet house to-night, Kaiulani," he said, calling her by her Hawaiian name. "Which will be a treat for us, Martin. Those boys really make more noise every day. And do you know what they have done now?" He shook his head.
"I see by the smile on your countenance," he continued, "that it is no day-incubus." "You are right," replied Flemming. "It was a pleasant dream, which you have put to flight." "And I am glad to see, that you have also put to flight the gloomy thoughts which used to haunt you. I like to see people cheerful and happy. What is the use of giving way to sadness in this beautiful world?"
Besides, I've just gone through the excitement of laying out the menu for our dinner. Good heavens, I forgot the flowers! We'll go and get them after breakfast. There's your coffee. Cream, old man? I am in a tremor over this dinner, you know. It is a maiden effort. By the way, Flemming, I wish you'd forget what I said about Miss Denham, last evening. I was all wrong."
Flemming laughed outright; but it was not perceived by the Prince, because at that moment he was pushed aside, in the rush of a gallopade, and Flemming beheld his face no more. At the same moment the Baron introduced a friend of his, who also spoke English and said; "You will sup with me to-night. I have some Rhine-wine, which will be a seduction to you."
I would like to have her for a sister, that I might shield her and counsel her, and spend half my income on old threadlace and camel's-hair shawls. A greater misfortune could scarcely befall me than to love her. Flemming, I am about to make a revelation that will astonish you. I may be all wrong in my premises and consequently in my conclusions; but you shall judge.
"Here!" exclaimed Flemming, half rising from the chair, and glancing towards a draped door which connected the suite of apartments. "Not in these rooms," said Lynde, with a short laugh, "but in Geneva in this hotel." "You do not mean it." "When I say it is she, I'm not sure of it." "Of course it isn't." "That's what I say, and the next moment I know it is." "And is THIS your trouble?"
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