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"Will you be good enough to tell me, then, M. Penurot, with whom I am to class you?" "I am willing from this moment to devote all my energies to the cause of the allies." "Granted. But what are your wishes in the matter of reward?" "I should like you to use your influence to obtain me the honour of an order." Heideck was unable to conceal his astonishment at this strange request.
The Prince embraced him several times, and his eyes were moist as he again wished his comrade a prosperous journey and the laurels of a victorious warrior. Nor was Heideck ashamed of his emotion, when he clasped the Prince's hand for the last time. "If you see your page again, please give him my own and Mrs. Irwin's farewell greeting." The Prince's face clouded over.
Heideck could scarcely believe his ears. He was prepared for anything on earth except to hear such confessions. He began to doubt this woman, who hitherto had seemed to him to be the paragon of all feminine virtues, and he sought an opportunity of escaping from further confessions of the kind, which, as he told himself, she would repent of in the course of an hour or so.
We were seated at table by the time our horses were tied up in the stables, and from the first minute there was a mirthful and lively exchange of talk. For my part I forthwith fell out with the Knight von Heideck, inasmuch as he was fain to sit betwixt Ann and me, and would have it that a gallant knight must ever be a more welcome neighbor to a damsel than her dearest woman-friend.
Heideck and Edith Irwin were not the first that had found quarters there; for, besides about a hundred officers, there were already there numberless English ladies and children whose saviours had appeared in time to rescue them from the horrible fate of Mrs. Baird and her children. At the open door of the apartments reserved for the women Heideck and Edith Irwin had to part.
Heideck made no remark, and since the openly expressed and heartfelt joy of the English affected him painfully, he soon took leave of them, and went up to his room, which, like Edith's, was on the second storey. According to the custom of the country, all the rooms opened on to the broad balcony which ran round the whole floor like an outer corridor.
He had been seen in confidential conversation with the Colonel, and his position as a friend of the Prince procured him respect. The stranger, half dead from fear, gratefully accepted the glass of wine which Heideck poured out for him, and, having recovered somewhat, thanked his protector in simple, but cordial terms.
Please convince yourself what sort of friends we have amongst the Danes." Heideck read as follows:
In order to gain a clearer survey of the entire movement, and to be able to observe the Russian approach, he rode with his staff and a strong cavalry escort towards the Ravi river. Heideck, accompanied by his faithful servant, attached himself to the escort, and thus was soon far in advance of Colonel Baird's brigade.
I must now leave you for the present. I have other official duties to perform, but I will return later." "In any case I am glad to welcome my countrywoman," protested the old gentleman. "You can see my house from the window here, and I beg you will call upon me when your duties are over." It was not till after sunset that Heideck called at Mr. Kennedy's house.
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