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And then, as brave men are entitled, by prescriptive right as old as the world's history, to the alliance and the active help of Fortune, the punctual goddess stepped down from the machine. One of the Princess's ladies begged to enter; a man, it appeared, had brought a line for the Freiherr von Gondremark.
'You would spoil me, would you not? she asked. 'I would try, I would try, returned the Governor, and he offered her his arm. She took it, picked up her skirt, and drew him close to her. 'I have come to see the Prince, she said. 'Now, infidel! on business. A message from that stupid Gondremark, who keeps me running like a courier.
"If I had not seen you at work, if I did not know the fertility of your mind, I own I should tremble for the consequence. But It is in this field that men must recognise their inability. All the great negotiators, when they have not been women, have had women at their elbows. Madame de Pompadour was ill served; she had not found her Gondremark; but what a mighty politician!
But the body politic is seriously diseased; republicanism, socialism, many disintegrating ideas are abroad; circle within circle, a really formidable organisation has grown up about your Highness's throne. 'I have heard of it, Herr von Gondremark, put in the Prince; 'but I have reason to be aware that yours is the more authoritative information.
She could never have given that paper but to one man, and that man her lover. Here you stand her lover, her accomplice, her master O, I well believe it, for I know your power. But what am I? she cried; 'I, whom you deceive! 'Jealousy! cried Gondremark. 'Anna, I would never have believed it! But I declare to you by all that's credible that I am not her lover.
Courage, indeed! If you had to scour pans, Herr Von Gondremark, you would call it, I suppose, Domestic Courage? 'I would, madam, said the Baron stoutly, 'if I scoured them well. I would put a good name upon a virtue; you will not overdo it: they are not so enchanting in themselves. 'Well, but let me see, she said. 'I wish to understand your courage. Why we asked leave, like children!
"If you do not choose to sign on the authority of your sovereign, pass it on. Or you may leave the table," he added, his temper ripping out. "I decline your invitation, Herr von Gondremark; and my sovereign, as I continue to observe with regret, is still absent from the board," replied the Doctor calmly; and he resumed the perusal of the paper, the rest chafing and exchanging glances.
"And now, sir, you will see a little," continued the farmer, "why we think so poorly of this Prince Otto. There's such a thing as a man being pious and honest in the private way; and there is such a thing, sir, as a public virtue; but when a man has neither, the Lord lighten him! Even this Gondremark, that Fritz here thinks so much of " "Ay," interrupted Fritz, "Gondremark's the man for me.
WITH what a world of excellent intentions Otto entered his wife's cabinet! how fatherly, how tender! how morally affecting were the words he had prepared! Nor was Seraphina unamiably inclined. Her usual fear of Otto as a marplot in her great designs was now swallowed up in a passing distrust of the designs themselves. For Gondremark, besides, she had conceived an angry horror.
"Gondremark loves to temporise; his policy is below ground, and he fears all open courses; and now that I have seen you act with so much spirit, I will cheerfully risk myself on your protection. Who knows? You may be yet the better man." "Do you indeed believe so?" cried the Prince. "You put life into my heart!" "I will give up sketching portraits," said the Baronet.
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