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At an hotel in Vienna, upon the close of the aristocratic season there, he renewed an acquaintance with a Russian lady, Countess Kornikoff, and he and I parted. She disliked the Margravine of Rippau, who was in Vienna, and did not recognize us. I heard that it was the Margravine who had despatched Prince Hermann to England as soon as she discovered Ottilia's flight thither.
Peterborough, and, with an air of great sincerity and courtesy, requested him in French to create a diversion for her Highness the Margravine of Rippau during the extreme heat of the afternoon by precipitating himself headlong into forty fathoms, either attached or unattached. His art in baffling Mr. Peterborough's attempts to treat the unheard-of request as a jest was extraordinary.
I did not like the strain; yet I clung to him. I was compelled to ask whether he had news of any sort worth hearing. 'None, said he calmly; 'none. I have everything to hear, nothing to relate; and, happily, I can hardly speak for joy. He wept. He guaranteed to have the margravine at the chateau within a week, which seemed to me a sufficient miracle.
Aennchen told me the margravine had been summoned to Rippau just before they left Sarkeld. Her mistress had informed Baroness Turckems of her intention to visit England. Prince Ernest was travelling in France. The hour which brought me to Ottilia was noon. The arrangements of the ladies could only grant me thirty minutes, for Janet was to drive the princess out into the country to view the island.
Twice the Great Frederick had sojourned in the palace; visiting his sister Louise, the wife of the Wild Margrave, and more than once it had welcomed her next neighbor and sister Wilhelmina, the Margravine of Baireuth, whose autobiographic voice, piercingly plaintive and reproachful, seemed to quiver in the air.
"Is it the Princess?" people asked, and craned their necks to see. It must at least be a German Serenity the Margravine of Pimpernikel, the Hereditary Princess of Weissnichtwo but more beautiful and graceful than English prejudice expects German ladies to be. Ah, Italian! that explained everything their height, their grace, their dark beauty, their effective pose.
Presently I found the room empty of our poor unconscious tormentor. Ottilia had fastened her hand to mine again. 'Be generous, I surprised her by saying. 'Go back at once. I have seen you! Let my father escort you the road. You will meet the margravine, or some one. I think, with you, it will be the margravine, and my father puts her in good humour.
Visits to the ancient palace of Queen Joanna to the modern villa of the Margravine to the Sibyl's Cave, and to Maro's Tomb to some sites that owed their interest to classic associations to others that claimed it from present beauty wiled away days swiftly and pleasurably. What with youth, change of scene, and an Italian sky, George was no longer an invalid.
Sebald with the marriage of the Margravine; of his sons and of his grandsons, potters, painters, engravers all, and chief of them great Augustin, the Luca della Robbia of the North.
Of course, the margravine did not signify it would be a perfectly finished work. We are kept at a great distance, that we may not scrutinize it too closely. They unveil it to show she has been as good as her word, and then cover it up to fix the rider to the horse, a screw is employed, I imagine. For one thing we know about it, we know that the horse and the horseman travelled hither separately.
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