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"Yes; and we do as you have done, baron. We stop our ears." "The consequence is," continued Josephi, "that my granaries are full to overflowing. I was on my way to Prague to dispose of it, but the want which I have seen on your estates, freiherr, has touched my heart. Nowhere have I beheld any thing to equal it. Hundreds of starving peasants are on the high-road, not a mile off."
"But they found nothing nothing but a few hundred florins that glided, unaccountably, into their hands, and caused them to abscond in a hurry. This people-loving emperor deserves the eternal gratitude of his commissioners, for although they found no corn for him, they found an abundance of gold for themselves." Josephi colored violently, and his whole frame trembled.
"Seven extortioners!" cried Josephi, rising from his seat, and looking as if he would have stricken them to the earth with the lightning of his flashing eyes. "What means this insolence?" asked the host. "It means that I have found here seven men of noble birth, who have disgraced their caste by fattening upon the misery of their fellows.
"You say, baron," resumed the host, "that you paid no attention to the complaints of your peasantry?" "I did like Ulysses, gentlemen; I stopped my ears with wax, that my heart might not grow weak." "A melodious siren song, to be sure," laughed the company; "a dirge of bread! bread! bread!" "Ah, you know the song, I perceive," said the Baron von Josephi, joining in the laugh.
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