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Several of the passengers whose injuries were only very slight were discussing the accident in an animated manner, and, as usual in such cases, many wild and fanciful conjectures were passed about as truth. At last one said: "Does anyone know the rights of the matter?" "Yes, I do," volunteered a young man with an arm in a sling; and Margraf lay silently listening, unable to move or speak.
"These two Serene Highnesses would needs take me home in their carriage; they asked the Margraf to let them stay supper: from that hour they were never out of our house. Next morning, by means of them, the secret had got abroad. We had nothing for it but to give up the incognito, and take our fate!" The fact is certain, let the Three Kings and the Eleven Thousand Virgins say to it what they will.
"Just as we were about setting off thither, I waiting till the Margraf were ready, the Xargraf entered, and a Lady with him; who, he informed me, was Madame de Belleisle, the French Ambassador's Wife:" Wife of the great Belleisle, the soul of all these high congregatings, consultations, coronations, who is not Kaiser but maker of Kaisers: what is to be done!
"Well, it appears from what the front guard says marvellous how he escaped with hardly a scratch both these men had been drugged, and as they were both of them to have run the mail train to the Continent to-night, things look very fishy." Margraf nearly fainted in his efforts to listen more intensely. "They were changed on to this train at the last moment, and hence this accident.
... "The Prince of Mirow's visit was so curious, I must give my Most All-gracious Father a particular report of it. "Scarcely was the Prince got in, when they came to tell me, for his worse luck, that Prince Heinrich," the Ill Margraf, "was come; who accordingly trotted him out, in such a way that we thought we should all have died with laughing.
The glacis is thirty feet high, of stiff slope, and slippery with frost: no matter, the avalanche, led on by Leopold in person, by Margraf Karl the King's Cousin, by Adjutant Goltz and the chief personages, rushes up with strange impetus; hews down a second palisade; surges in; Wallis's sentries extinct, or driven to their main guards. There is a singular fire in the besieging party.
"At table;" no date indicated, or a wrong one, but evidently after this: in fact, we find it was about the beginning of March, 1729; and had sad consequences for Wilhelmina. "At table his Majesty told the Queen that he had Letters from Anspach; the young Margraf to be at Berlin in May for his wedding; that M. Bremer his Tutor was just coming with the ring of betrothal for Louisa.
"Your Excellenz was in the right to warn me against a cunning Enemy, whom you knew better than I. Here have I tried fighting him, and got beaten. Friedrich and the Margraf have followed Daun at quick step; but Daun would pause nowhere, till he got to Stolpen, among the bushy gullets and chasms. September 12th, Friedrich had speech of Henri, and the pleasure of dining with him in Dresden.
Loyal Protestants refused it, therefore; flatly declined, though bidden and again bidden. They attended in a body, old Johann of Saxony, young Philip of Hessen, and the rest; Margraf George, as spokesman, with eloquent simplicity stating their reasons, to somewhat this effect: Invinciblest all-gracious Kaiser, loyal are we to your high Majesty, ready to do your bidding by night and by day.
French had a fortified post on the farther side of this River; Crown-Prince, Ill Margraf, and Wilhelmina's Husband were quietly looking about them, riding up the other side: Wilhelmina's Husband decided to take a pencil-drawing of the French post, and paused for that object.
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