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Updated: May 10, 2025
They were tactless enough to propose staying over the next day. A big crowd of excited Luxembourgers filled the streets in the morning and gave every sign of extreme dissatisfaction. "What were these Prussian soldiers doing there? Had they come to spy out the land and the city in preparation for an invasion? Was there a stray prince or duke among them who wanted to marry the Grand Duchess?
With me were two or three Luxembourgers and as many Germans, to whom fishing with the fly fine and far off was a new and curious sight. Along the east bank of the stream ran one of the strategic railways of Germany, from Koln to Trier.
I had heard in the town that thirty military officers from the German garrison at Trier, a few miles away on the border, were coming, invited or self-invited, to the concert, and the Luxembourgers did not like the idea at all. Well, the Germans came in a body, some of them courteous and affable, the others stiff, wooden, high-chinned, and staring distinctly a foreign group.
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