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But Hohenfels thought of nothing less than of a personality, being in his cloudiest mood of generalization.
And where could I better retie myself to those old pilgrim habits than in this citadel of heroism, a place sanctied by recent woes, a city proved by its endurance through a siege which even that of Paris hardly surpassed? One draught, then, from the epic Rhine! To-morrow, at Marly, I could laugh over it all with Hohenfels.
It was likely they would make a dash in quite the opposite direction, towards the Hunsruck, because Hohenfels believed they were outlaws from that district, and did not in any way associate them with the plundered barge.
I was allowed, for about the equivalent of an American dollar, to measure the Occidental emperor's leg they call it his arm. And then, as a makeweight in the bargain, the venal sacristan placed in my hands the head of Charlemagne. I thought Hohenfels would have sunk to the ground with disgust. He colored deeply and dragged me into the air.
Hohenfels had a saying that most travelers are a sort of children, who need to touch all they see, and who will climb to every broken tooth of a castle they find on their way, getting a tiresome ascent and hot sunshine for their pains. "I trust we are wiser," he would observe, so unanswerably that I passed with him up the Rhine quite, as I may express it, on the ground floor.
But these disadvantages were counterbalanced by the fact that Falkenberg was situated much higher than Rheinstein, and was farther away from the river, so that when the garrison descended to the water's edge it could not return as speedily as was the case with Hohenfels' men.
In broad daylight an irresistible band of these ruffians descended upon and captured the supposed impregnable Castle of Rheinstein, shamefully maltreating Baron Hugo von Hohenfels, tying him motionless, and nearly strangling him with stout ropes, after which the scoundrels robbed him of every stiver he possessed.
Baron von Hohenfels sat so secure in his elevated robber's nest, which he deemed invincible and, indeed, the cliff on which it stood, nearly a hundred yards high, made it so if approached from the Rhine that he kept only one man on watch, and this sentinel was stationed on the elevated platform of the round tower.
I was aroused from a sulky slumber in the station at Brussels by Hohenfels, who said, in his musical scolding way, like the busy wheeze of a clicking music-box, "You may say what you like, with your left-handed flatteries, in regard to Fortnoye, and you may praise Ariadnes and widows to the end of the chapter.
I was glad the "champanions" were departed, glad I had a stolen morning in Strasburg, glad that Hohenfels and my domestics would be uneasy for me at Marly. In such a mood I applied myself to extract the profit out of my detention in the city.
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