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The deep lines in Karl's face furnished the strongest argument against further waiting. "What have we here?" he asked, picking up one of the embossed books lying open on the table near Karl. "I presume that's my Bible," Karl replied. "Has it come to this?" the doctor asked dryly. "Didn't we ever tell you the story of my Bible?" "No. You never did. I never suspected you had one."
She, it is insinuated by Seckendorf in Tobacco-Parliament; ought not she, Daughter of your Majesty's esteemed friend, modest-minded, innocent young Princess, with a Brother already betrothed in your Majesty's House, to be the Lady? It is probable she will. Did we inform the reader once about Kaiser Karl's young marriage adventures; and may we, to remind him, mention them a second time?
She took his hand and it responded to her clasp. That thrilled her through and through. Those awful fears those never-to-be-forgotten fears that Karl's hand might never close over hers again! She leaned over him that she might feel his breath upon her face. In all her life there had never been so blessed a joy as this feeling Karl's breath upon her cheek. Nothing mattered now work, eyes, nothing.
"You're tremendously gone on him." "Nonsense! Why, I couldn't marry Mr. Chase," she exclaimed, irritable at last. "Don't put such things into my head I mean, don't get such things into that ridiculous old head of yours. Are you forgetting that I am to become Karl's wife in June? You are babbling, Deppy " "Well, let's say no more about it," he said, lying back resignedly. "It's too bad, that's all.
"I never could go into a shop and buy men's clothes." The thing was so evident that, for a moment, the boys' looks fell. Then Christine said, coloring very much: "There is a box, in my room, of Karl's things. He is my cousin, you know; and he was working as a gardener, here, till he had to go out in the Landwehr so, of course, he left his things here, for us to take care of. He is about your size.
He had no books, no papers, nothing to read in the barracks, and no chance to improve his mind. He thought the Herr Consul would not object to his looking at his books. The consul was touched; it was really a trivial indiscretion and as much Trudschen's fault as Karl's!
Karl's sons, now four in number, used to circle around their grandparent like a humble chorus kept at a distance, and stare enviously at these gifts. In order to win his favor, they one day when they saw him alone, came boldly up to him, shouting in unison, "Down with Napoleon!" "You insolent gringoes!" ranted the old man. "That's what that shameless father has taught you!
As my protege was admittedly a beginner, I had to guarantee his capacity by undertaking to perform his duties in the event of any trouble arising at the theatre on the ground of his inefficiency. Karl seemed delighted. As October drew near and the opening of the theatre was announced to take place 'under exceptional artistic auspices. I thought it advisable to see what Karl's views were.
Ernestine left Chicago sooner than he thought she was going to, and what does he do but go after her and get her! You see, all of Karl's ancestors weren't meek and gentle scholars and wise professors. Lots of them were soldiers and bloodthirsty brigands, and those are the ones he brags about most and in spite of his mind, and all that, those are the ones he is most like.
You ought to know your medical history well enough to know that all the victims haven't been bunglers, by a long sight." Karl's hand was on the knob. "Well, don't worry about me; I'm not built for a victim. I may be run over by an automobile anybody is liable to be run over by yours, the way you run that thing but I'm not liable to be killed by my own sword. That's not the way I work."
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