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"No, your excellency; I have not uttered a word about it to any one," replied the pipe-master, solemnly. "I have been as dumb as a fish; only in secret have I complained of my distress; and, when that did not relieve me, and I still felt as though my heart would burst, I did what I have learned to do from the field-marshal: I went to my room, closed the door, and swore in the most fearful manner!
"Field-Marshal Blucher, where are you?" "Here I am!" shouted Blucher. "And here I am!" cried Hennemann, galloping up. "Pipe-master, is it you?" asked Blucher, in amazement. "Well, what do you want, and where have you been so long?" "I have just brought an eye-shade for you, and here it is," said Christian, handing with profound gravity a lady's bonnet of green silk, with a broad green brim.
May the Lord have mercy on your soul! for you will certainly get yourself into trouble." "Your excellency," cried a loud voice outside, at this moment "your excellency, are you not coming at all?" The door of the anteroom was violently thrust open, and the pipe-master appeared on the threshold.
Well, the fellow has kept his word; but he will now also fulfil what he promised my wife, and tell her every thing. Yes, the pipe-master will tell her that I was in the charge of the light cavalry." "Yes," exclaimed Gneisenau, smiling, "he will betray to your wife and to history that Blucher fought and charged at the battle of the Katzbach like a young man of twenty.
He was about to turn away, but Blucher seized the lap of his hussar- jacket. "Show me the broken pipe," he said, anxiously; "let me see if it really will not do any more." "Well, look at it, your excellency," said the pipe-master, in a dignified tone, holding up the bowl with a very small part of the tube. "It is impossible for you to use it again.
You will do me the favor, however, not to betray it to Amelia." "Even though I should be silent, your excellency, your wife would hear of it." "You believe Hennemann will tell her?" asked Blucher, almost in dismay. "Yes, it is true, she has ordered the pipe-master not to lose sight of me in battle, and always to remain near me with the pipe.
"Yes, retreat that is just what he said," exclaimed Blucher, laughing, and turning again toward the two gentlemen; "and when I told him I would leave the army and set out for Brussels he remarked that it was a secret flight." "The pipe-master is an honest man, who loves his master," said Gneisenau, kindly smiling on him.
And then," added Blucher, hesitatingly, and almost in confusion, "you have too much to do, John; you must have an assistant. It takes you too much time to fill my pipes, and this young man, therefore, will help you. I have appointed Christian Hennemann my pipe-master. Well, do not reply take the two men to the building, and be good friends do you hear, good friends!"
Christian galloped up, and with a grave air handed the short pipe to his master. "Pipe-master," said Blucher, "hold a good many pipes in readiness to-day, for there will be a fight, and you know that our gunners fire more steadily when my pipe is burning well. Well, write now, Gneisenau: 'Precisely at twelve the troops will be put in motion, and descend from Trannes into the plain.
On the other bank we shall all unite, take Sarrebruck, advance by forced marches upon Metz, and " "Your excellency," shouted the pipe-master, throwing open the door, "a courier from the King of Prussia, from Frankfort-on-the-Main!" "Let him come in!" cried Blucher, hastily throwing off his military cloak, and putting on his uniform-coat.
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