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Laniska shall be tried by his equals; and, since twelve is the golden, harmonic, divine number, for which justice has a blind predilection, let him have twelve judges, and call them, if you please, a jury. But I will name my counsel, and you counsel for Laniska. You know the conditions do you accept of them?" "Willingly, sire!" cried Albert, joyfully.
"Not better than I love you, as I prove by allowing you to curse them as much and as often as you think proper," replied Albert, with a smile, which could not, however, force one from his angry friend. "You are right to practise logic and rhetoric," resumed Laniska, "as much and as often as you can, since in your profession you are to make your bread by your tongue and your pen.
"Is not there in this house a woman of the name of Sophia Mansfeld?" "Yes," replied Laniska: "what do you want with her?" "She must come with us; and you are our prisoner, count," replied the soldier. It was in vain to ask for further explanation.
"Look at that picture of melancholy," resumed the Englishman, pointing to the figure of Sophia Mansfeld "observe even now, whilst the overseer is standing near her, how reluctantly she works! 'Tis the way with all slaves. "And are free men, or free women, never ill?" said Laniska; "or do you Englishmen blame your king, whenever any of his subjects turn pale?
If the king had never seen or liked it, I should now be " The recollection of her home, which at this instant rushed full upon her mind, overpowered her, and she paused. "You would now be in Saxony," resumed Laniska; "but forget Saxony, and you will be happy at Berlin."
Albert declared that he desired no more: and the Countess Laniska, and all who were present, joined in praising Frederick's clemency and Albert's generosity.
About a week before the prize was decided by the king, I met the Jew, and told him Sophia had good hopes of getting back to Saxony. He looked very much vexed, and said, 'She is not sure of that." Albert. "Did you ever hear this Jew speak of Count Laniska?" Witness. "Yes, about two months ago I saw him in the street when I was speaking to Solomon, and I asked the Jew who he was.
It cannot have escaped their observation, that no positive evidence whatever has yet been produced against the prisoner. No one has yet been heard to swear that he saw Count Laniska write the word tyrant upon this vase.
"Sir," whispered a Prussian workman, who stood by "sir, she has a lover in Saxony, to whom she was just going to be married, when she was carried off from her cottage, and brought hither." "Cannot her lover follow her?" said Laniska. "He is in Berlin, in concealment," replied the workman, in a whisper; "you won't betray him, I am sure."
I do not pretend to more generosity or delicacy of sentiment than others; but I beg any of you, gentlemen, to imagine yourselves for a moment in my place, and to conceive what must be my sensations as a man, and as an advocate. I am not ignorant how popular the name of Augustus Laniska is, both in Berlin and Potzdam.
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