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"Only silently and circumspectly!" said Otto. "I should not have expected theft from you!" said she. "But tell me why you do it?" Otto trembled; it was impossible for him to tell her his reasons, or to express the word, "Thou art my sister!" His lips were silent. "To many a fellow," said she, "have I been kinder than I ought to have been, but see whether any of them think about Sidsel!
To judge from his conduct in the matter of Otto Cantone's estate, Fazio seems to have been as great a despiser of wealth as his son proved to be afterwards. His virtue, such as it was, must have been the outcome of one of those hard cold natures, with wants few and trifling, and none of those tastes which cry out daily for some new toy, only to be procured by money.
No woman of twice her age could have told it more adroitly. Otto appeared as the victim of an unfortunate accident in a college frolic; Falloden as the guardian friend; herself, as his lieutenant. It touched the romantic sense, the generous heart of musical Paris. There were many who remembered Otto's father and mother and the musical promise of the bright-haired boy.
There is nothing that so apes the external bearing of free will as that unconscious bustle, obscurely following liquid laws, with which a river contends among obstructions. It seems the very play of man and destiny, and as Otto pored on these recurrent changes, he grew, by equal steps, the sleepier and the more profound.
At this time the future maker of the German Empire rose in the Landtag and made his bow before the world; a young Prussian land-magnate, Otto von Bismarck by name, he shook his fist in the face of the new German liberalism, and incidentally of the new German infidelity: Christianity is the solid basis of Prussia; and no state erected upon any other foundation can permanently exist.
In return for his services, the Pope, Leo VIII, made Otto "Emperor," and the eastern half of Charles' old kingdom was henceforth known as the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation." This strange political creation managed to live to the ripe old age of eight hundred and thirty-nine years.
Mr. Drake was personally liked by the Elector, and was not inattentive either to the plans and views of Montgelas or to the intrigues of Otto. They were, therefore, both doubly interested to remove such a troublesome witness. M. de Montgelas is now a grand officer of Bonaparte's Legion of Honour, and he is one of the few foreigners nominated the most worthy of such a distinction.
"And now, sir," added Otto, "there is the Pheasant House; close behind it you will find my carriage, which I pray you to accept. God speed you to Vienna!" "In the impetuosity of youth," replied Sir John, "your Highness has overlooked one circumstance: I am still fasting." "Well, sir," said Otto, smiling, "you are your own master; you may go or stay.
"That has nothing to do with the question," retorted Dominick, "you said you would try." Otto looked with an injured expression at his sister and asked what she thought of a man being required to attempt impossibilities. "Not a man a monkey," interjected his brother. "Whether man or monkey," said Pauline, in her quiet but decided way, "if you promised to attempt the thing, you are bound to try."
While the Medici held sway, the magistracy of the Dieci della Guerra or of Liberty and Peace were superseded by the Otto della Pratica in the conduct of all that concerned wars, truces, and treaties of peace, in obedience to the will of the chief agents of that government.