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"Oh, Bernd he is in love," said the Grafin, smiling. "I don't quite see " I began. "Lovers always exaggerate," she said. "Russia and France will not interfere in so just a punishment." "But is it just?" I asked. She gazed at me critically at this. It was not, she evidently considered, a suitable remark for one whose business it was to turn into an excellent little German.
As soon as we could get away from the diningroom Bernd and I went out into the garden the Graf and Grafin hadn't reappeared and he said that though for a moment he had thought Austria's ultimatum would mean war, it was only just the first moment, but that he believed Servia would agree to everything, and the crisis would blow over in the way so many of them had blown over before.
A pair of Tyrolese minstrels in the square kindled his enthusiasm at one of his dinners; he sent them a sovereign; their humble, hearty thanks were returned to him in the name of Die Grafin von Fleetwood. The Ladies Endor, Eldritch, and Cowry sifted their best.
From the Grafin to the Dienstmadchen, from the Herr Professor to the "Piccolo," as they term the small artist that answers to our page boy, the business of Munich is dancing, somewhere, somehow, in a fancy costume. Every theatre clears away the stage, every cafe crowds its chairs and tables into corners, the very streets are cleared for dancing. Munich goes mad. Munich is always a little mad.
It was the Schloss of a Grafin von Callenberg, a dreadful old Dowager of Medea-Messalina type, who "always wore pistols about her;" pistols, and latterly, with more and more constancy, a brandy-bottle; who has been much on the tongues of men for a generation back.
Suppose he Well, perhaps by the time we get to Berlin things will have calmed down, and the Grafin will be able to come back straight here, which God grant, and I shall go back to Frau Berg and my flies. I shall regard those flies now with the utmost friendliness. I shan't mind anything they do. Good night blessed mother. I'm so thankful these two days are over. Your Chris.
Last night had marked an immense step forward in her social career; without running after the patronage of influential personages she had seen it quietly and tactfully put at her service. People such as the Grafin von Tolb were going to be a power in the London world for a very long time to come.
"May I communicate with my friends?" said Vivie, with a dry tongue in a dry mouth. "Who are your friends?" "Gräfin von Stachelberg, at the Hôpital de St. Pierre; le Pasteur Walcker, Rue Haute, 33 " "I will let them know that you are arrested on a charge of high treason in league with an English spy," he hissed. Then Vivie was pushed out of the room and Bertie was seized by two policemen
With the Grafin as her friend Cicely found herself in altogether a different position from that involved by the mere interested patronage of Lady Shalem. A vista of social success was opened up to her, and she did not mean it to be just the ordinary success of a popular and influential hostess moving in an important circle.
After dining there she and the Grafin were to go together to a farewell reception given by the Governor. For Rapp was bound for the frontier with the rest, and was to go to the war as first aide-de-camp to the Emperor. Mathilde could not be back until ten o'clock.
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