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Updated: June 13, 2025
The Archduchess was in one of her sudden moods of irritation. Hedwig's remark about Otto's loneliness, the second that day, struck home. In her anger she forgot her refusal to the Chancellor. "I have something to say that will put an end to this sentimental nonsense of yours, Hedwig. I should forbid your seeing this boy, this young Larisch, if I felt it necessary. I do not.
"We have been able to search the Chancellor's rooms, sire," the agent said, "for the articles mentioned last night a card-case, gloves, and a silk handkerchief, belonging to the prisoner upstairs. He is Captain Larisch, aide-de-camp to the Crown Prince of Livonia." He had, expected Karl to be, impressed. But Karl only looked at him. "I know that," he said coldly.
On to the discussion came Nikky Larisch, covered with dust and spotted with froth from his horse. He entered without ceremony, his boyish face drawn and white, his cap gone, his eyes staring. "The Chancellor?" he said. Some one pointed to the room beyond. Nikky hesitated. Then, being young and dramatic, even in tragedy, he unbuckled his sword-belt and took it off, placing it on a table.
It did not, so far as he could discover, lead beyond the lodge gates. The Chancellor sipped his hot milk and considered. Nikky Larisch a prisoner in Karl's hands caused him less anxiety than it would have a month before. But what was behind it all? The inn, grumbling at its broken rest, settled down to sleep again.
Then she turned the key, and shut Oskar safely away. "Highness," she said, "Lieutenant Larisch will be here in a moment. Will you permit me to go?" Otto was off his chair in an instant. "Certainly," he said, his mind still on the "O" which he was shading. Old habit was strong in the Countess.
His thin, arched nose looked pinched. His face was gray. "All this," he said, "means what? To make the boy a prisoner, to cut off his few pleasures, and even then, at any time " "Yes, sire," said Mettlich doggedly. "At any time." Outside in the anteroom Lieutenant Nikky Larisch roused himself, yawned, and looked at his watch. It was after twelve, and he had had a hard day.
"It is impossible to see Captain Larisch in your presence, and not realize " "Go on." "And not realize, Highness, that he is in love with you." "How silly!" said the Princess Hedwig, with glowing eyes. "But Highness!" implored the Countess. "If only you would use a little caution. Open defiance is its own defeat." "I am not ashamed of what I do," said Hedwig hotly. "Ashamed! Of course not.
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