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Updated: June 11, 2025
He came up with them upon Hardenberg Heath, in a broiling summer forenoon. His men were jaded by the forced march, overcame with the heat, tormented with thirst, and unable to procure even a drop of water. The royalists were fresh so that the result of the contest was easily to be foreseen.
Briefly he narrated the circumstances of the unusual case, and Hardenberg listened with absorbed attention, watching him closely, weighing every word, and noting critically the most trifling gesture or change of expression. For a while his natural skepticism struggled with a growing conviction that the man before him was telling the truth.
"Yes," said Hardenberg, solemnly, "his path leads across corpses and through rivers of blood, but the vengeance of God and man will finally overtake him, and who knows whether it may not do so during this wild Russian campaign?" "My evil forebodings, then, are proving true," said the king, sighing; "the expedition is directed against Russia?"
"'Very good, says Hardenberg, mincing an' silly like a chessy cat lappin' cream. 'Very good, ma'am; your orders shall be obeyed. He sure said it just like that, as if he spoke out o' a story-book. An' I kicked him under the table for it.
"It would be another step toward the deliverance of your majesty, the salvation of the country, and the annihilation of the tyrant!" said Hardenberg, raising his voice. The king made no reply; he stepped to the window, and, turning his back to the chancellor, looked out musingly into the night. Hardenberg looked now at him, and then on the queen's portrait.
Quite as naturally as his arm slipped around her shoulders, her lifted hands rested against the front of his flannel shirt, torn into ribbons and stained with grime. "For a little one," he murmured, looking down into her eyes, "you're some spunky fighter, believe me!" She flushed deeper and her lids drooped. Of a sudden Sheriff Hardenberg spoke up briskly: "That was a right nice shot, kid.
"Now, let us see what you have found, my friend," said Hardenberg, "and what you bring back to me before I have missed it." "Your excellency, it is a precious ornament," said the soldier; "but I must give it to you in secret." "Withdraw, Conrad," said Hardenberg, beckoning to the servant, who had remained at the door, and was distrustfully and anxiously watching every motion of the soldier.
He was the most prominent minister of the crown until he died, directing foreign affairs with ability, but in the wrong direction, the friend and ally of Metternich, Chateaubriand, Hardenberg, and the monarchs whom they represented.
We had drifted a good deal since the morning, and the bows of the Glarus were pointed homeward, but as soon as the breeze blew strong enough to get steerageway Hardenberg put the wheel over and, as the booms swung across the deck, headed for the island again.
But I pledge you my word that, if your apprehensions should really be verified if I really obtain proofs that my person and liberty are menaced, I shall then deem it incumbent on me to escape from this danger, and remove the seat of government to a safer place perhaps Breslau." "Is your majesty in earnest?" exclaimed Hardenberg, joyously.
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