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You will see at length that fine phrases amount to nothing, and that they are colors that fade in the sunshine. You had better speak frankly and honestly to me, for I have often told you I am a stupid daughter of the Tyrol, and do not know what to reply to such fine city phrases." "But for all that you are not stupid, my beautiful Eliza," said Ulrich von Hohenberg.
What does this quick transformation mean, and how was it possible?" "It is no transformation, sir," said Eliza, bashfully. "I am Eliza Wallner, the peasant-girl, and she who left you in the chapel is your wedded wife, the young Baroness von Hohenberg " "You are my wedded wife, you alone?" he cried, impetuously. "No, sir, I am not!" "You are not?" he cried, vehemently.
On Sunday, June 28, 1914, a Servian student named Prinzep shot and killed the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary, and his morganatic wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, in the streets of Serajevo, a town in Bosnia which the royal couple were visiting.
"No," she said, with a fiery glance of disdain; "no, afterwards I only wished to save your life. You have utterly mistaken Eliza Wallner's character, Ulrich von Hohenberg.
But the consciousness of this fact seemed not to humiliate him, for he walked up, his head proudly raised, and his stern, cold eyes gazing scornfully upon the assembly. He stepped close up to the altar. "Reverend father," he said, in a clear, loud voice to the priest, "you have called me. Here I am. What do you want of me?" "I have called you, Ulrich von Hohenberg, to marry you to your betrothed.
You say you always liked me so well, and I treated you with so much ingratitude and disdain! Oh, let me press this dear hand to my lips, let me thank you for all that you have done for me!" He tried to seize her hand, but she withdrew it from him quickly. "Captain von Hohenberg," she said, "we are no longer on the balcony yonder; nor is it necessary that you should kiss my hand.
In all political discussions, too, the Archduke Charles was always the listener, absorbing the precepts expounded by Franz Ferdinand. Charles's marriage met with the full approval of his uncle. The Duchess of Hohenberg, too, entertained the warmest affection for the young couple. The Archduke was a firm partisan of the Great-Austria programme.
"Do you see also the balcony, Ulrich von Hohenberg?" she asked, somewhat sarcastically. "I do," he replied, almost timidly. She looked at him with the proud and lofty air of a queen. "When we met last and spoke with each other, we stood on yonder balcony," added Eliza. "Do you remember what we said at the time, sir?" "Eliza," he murmured
"Great God!" murmured Eliza, clinging anxiously to Elza's arm, "If he resists, he is lost." "Here I am, my brave soldiers!" shouted Ulrich von Hohenberg a second time. "Come to me, my brave lads! I have been locked up here; hence, I cannot come to you. Come up to me, then. Knock the doors in, and deliver your captain." "First, let them deliver themselves, sir," shouted Wallner up to him.
"But you will not be able to prevent them," said old Thurnwalden, when all were silent again and had drunk a long draught from their glasses as if to confirm their words. "You know there is a whole company of soldiers at Castle Weissenstein, and Ulrich von Hohenberg, the castellan's nephew, is their captain.
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