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Hohenstockwitz?" asked the Prince. "Nay, I but saw the title-page," replied Gotthold. "But the roll was given to me open, and I heard no word of any secrecy." Otto dealt the Chancellor an angry glance. "I see," he went on. "The papers of an author seized at this date of the world's history, in a state so petty and so ignorant as Grünewald, here is indeed an ignominious folly.
One of the non-combatants, eager to trim, volunteered an answer. "The Herr Doctor von Hohenstockwitz had just entered his dissent," he added. "Give me the rest of this correspondence," said the Prince. It was handed to him, and he read it patiently from end to end, while the councillors sat foolishly enough looking before them on the table.
'You have read it, Doctor Hohenstockwitz? asked the Prince. 'Nay, I but saw the title-page, replied Gotthold. 'But the roll was given to me open, and I heard no word of any secrecy. Otto dealt the Chancellor an angry glance. 'I see, he went on.
'Colonel Gordon, said the Prince, 'oblige me so far, and set me right with Herr von Hohenstockwitz. 'Gentlemen, said the Colonel, 'you are both arrested on the same warrant in the name of the Princess Seraphina, acting regent, countersigned by Prime Minister Freiherr von Gondremark, and dated the day before yesterday, the twelfth. I reveal to you the secrets of the prison-house, he added.
"Otto, are you insane?" cried Gotthold, leaping up. "Because I ask you how you came by certain moneys, and because you refuse " "Herr von Hohenstockwitz, I have ceased to invite your aid in my affairs," said Otto. "I have heard all that I desire, and you have sufficiently trampled on my vanity.
Otto laid the paper before him; as he read, his fingers played tattoo upon the table. 'Was it proposed, he inquired, 'to send this paper forth without a knowledge of my pleasure? One of the non-combatants, eager to trim, volunteered an answer. 'The Herr Doctor von Hohenstockwitz had just entered his dissent, he added. 'Give me the rest of this correspondence, said the Prince.
He had his own place laid close to the reader, and with a proper apology, broke ground by asking what he read. 'I am perusing, answered the young gentleman, 'the last work of the Herr Doctor Hohenstockwitz, cousin and librarian of your Prince here in Grunewald a man of great erudition and some lambencies of wit.
You say I am no gentleman; yet the sneers have been upon your side; and though I can very well perceive where you have lodged your sympathies, I will forbear the taunt. 'Otto, are you insane? cried Gotthold, leaping up. 'Because I ask you how you came by certain moneys, and because you refuse 'Herr von Hohenstockwitz, I have ceased to invite your aid in my affairs, said Otto.
"Colonel Gordon," said the Prince, "oblige me so far, and set me right with Herr von Hohenstockwitz." "Gentlemen," said the Colonel, "you are both arrested on the same warrant in the name of the Princess Seraphina, acting regent, countersigned by Prime Minister Freiherr von Gondremark, and dated the day before yesterday, the twelfth. I reveal to you the secrets of the prison-house," he added.
He had his own place laid close to the reader, and with a proper apology, broke ground by asking what he read. "I am perusing," answered the young gentleman, "the last work of the Herr Doctor Hohenstockwitz, cousin and librarian of your Prince here in Grünewald a man of great erudition and some lambencies of wit." "I am acquainted," said Otto, "with the Herr Doctor, though not yet with his work."
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