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Updated: May 6, 2025
"I know of this," said Ranuzi; "but I know also that the fortune of battles is inconstant, otherwise we would not now be here." "It is to be hoped we will not be here long," said Giurgenow, impatiently. "Does it not lie in our power to go at once? What think you? Have we not our swords? They have not dared to take them from us!
The Italian shrugged his shoulders. "You must ask his wife." "Or Baron Kalkreuth, who has lingered here for seven months because of his wounds," said Giurgenow, with a loud laugh. "Besides, Prince Henry is averse to this war, all his sympathies are on our side.
"Tell me, now, Giurgenow, how is it with your court of Petersburg? Is it formal, as ceremonious as here in Prussia?" Giurgenow laughed aloud. "Our Empress Elizabeth is an angel of beauty and goodness mild and magnanimous to all-sacrificing herself constantly to the good of others. Last year she gave a ball to her body-guard.
But you forget, Giurgenow, that you have promised to read us something from the journal about Prince Henry." "It is nothing of importance," said the Russian, apathetically; "the prince has entirely recovered from his wounds, and has been solacing himself in his winter camp at Dresden with the representations upon the French stage.
"I can well believe," whispered Giurgenow, "that you would be pleased to humble the beautiful Fraulein von Marshal?" "Ah, my friend," said Ranuzi, laughing, "you touch the wound of our poor friend.
"The scene is so very piquant," said Giurgenow, "I would like to draw nearer. Pardon me, gentlemen, I must leave you, and go upon the square. It is interesting to hear what the people say, and how they receive such prophecies. We can, perhaps, judge in this way of the probabilities of peace and liberty. The voice of the people is, in politics, ever the decisive voice."
"And is that your only reason for paying court to this beautiful girl?" said Giurgenow, frowningly. "The only reason, I assure you," cried Belleville, rising up, and drawing near the window. "But, look," cried he, hastily; "what a crowd of men are filling the streets, and how the people are crying and gesticulating, as if some great misfortune had fallen upon them!"
The people are nothing but a mass of subjects, who obey implicitly his commands, even when they know, that in so doing, they rush on destruction." "Giurgenow has failed, and he might have counted upon failure! If you, Belleville, had resorted to these means, I could have understood it. In France, the people play an important role in politics.
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