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Updated: May 15, 2025
The Prince came down to greet them on the threshold in a new and magnificent dress. "The Prince's officer-in-waiting to attend upon his Highness!" cried a herald in fine raiment of blue and yellow. I looked about for the man who was to be my superior in my new office that is, if Prince Karl should prove to have spoken in earnest.
As soon as we had arrived at the banqueting-hall, the Prince beckoned me and presented me formally to the Lady Ysolinde. "Your Highness, this is Captain Hugo Gottfried, my new officer-in-waiting." The Princess bowed gravely and held out her hand. Her aqua-marine eyes were bent upon me, suffused with a certain quick and evident pleasure which became them well.
"Sir," said I, "the coat I wear, I wear by the command of your Prince. It shall be immediately returned to you when the Prince permits me to go off duty. In the mean time, pray take notice that I am Captain Hugo Gottfried, officer-in-waiting to the Prince Karl of Plassenburg, and that my sword is wholly at your service."
"Here, Count von Reuss," he said to a tall, handsome, heavily jowled young man, "I pray you strip off thy fine coat for an hour, and lend it to my new officer-in-waiting. The ladies will admire thee more than ever in thy fine flowered waistcoat, with silk sleeves and frilled purfles of lace!" The young man, Von Reuss, looked as if he desired much to tell the Prince to go and be hanged.
Day after day he placed himself in the royal ante-chamber and begged an audience; but the king would not hear him, and one day got into a towering passion when the officer-in-waiting ventured to utter the poor man's name in the king's presence. At last the colonel grew desperate. He could not make up his mind to beg; his wife was ill, his children starving, what was he to do?
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