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I sent to Prussia for my pedigree; the attestation of this was sent me by Count Hertzberg. Although the family of Trenck had a hundred years been landholders in Hungary, yet was my attorney obliged to solicit the instrument called ritter-diploma, for which, under pain of execution, I must pay two thousand florins.
"Now, Hertzberg," cried he, "come out the coast is clear." A gigantic screen, which divided the room in two, began to move, and forth came Count Herizberg, the king's prime minister. "Did you hear it all?" asked Frederick, laughing. "I did, so please your majesty." "Did you write it down, so that I can send its resume to the Empress Catharine?"
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