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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Take me away somewhere, some quiet place," she whispered back. "Let me rest I am faint." He drew her after him and the two figures, the scarlet and the white, passed under the archway into a salon beyond. The Prince raised a curtain: "This is the Duke's own room," he said in her ear, "Go under be quick!" The curtain fell heavily behind them and the two stood alone in the Grand-Duke's room.
The grand-duke's troops were commanded by a competent general named De Stoch. He had a son of my age, a charming young man with whom I struck up a close friendship, and to whom I shall refer again. We were only some ten leagues from Frankfurt-on-main.
Dragon accepted and was thoroughly beaten, while the duke went off in triumph, for he might say from henceforth that he was the best fencer in St. Petersburg. When the prince had gone, Dragon could not withstand the temptation of saying that he had only let himself be beaten for fear of offending his antagonist; and this boast soon got to the grand-duke's ears.
"The Imperial Generals were just sitting down to dinner, when it broke out; had intended a Council of War, over their wine, in the Grand-Duke's tent: 'What, won't they let us have our dinner! cried Prince Karl, in petulant humor, struggling to be mirthful.
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