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"Plassenburg, said you, my lady?" he inquired. The Lady Ysolinde nodded. "Yes, to Plassenburg, where the Princess has great need of a maid of honor." "Her Highness is often upon her travels, I hear it reported," said my father, "while the Prince keeps himself much at home."
Then I went down with my messenger to the Weiss Thor, and with great fear and pulsation of the midriff I saw the idiot pass the house of Master Gerard. Then, at the outer gate, I gave him his ten golden coins, and watched him trot away briskly on the green winding road to Plassenburg. "Mind," he called back to me, "Jan is to kiss her cheek if Jan takes letter to the Prince!"
I was in time to catch her in my arms as the soldiers of Plassenburg, with Prince Karl at their head, came through the White Gate like a spring-tide, carrying all before them. The Prince stayed at his wife's side. "Ysolinde!" cried the Prince, aghast, bending over her not heeding, nor indeed, as I think, even seeing me. "Karl!" she said, looking gently at him, "try and forgive me all the rest.
Here we enjoyed to the full the breezes which swept with morning freshness across the scrubby undergrowths of oak and broom, and above all the sight of misty wisps of cloud scudding and whisking about the distant peaks-behind which lay the city of Plassenburg.
A great work we had dragging them up to Plassenburg by rope and chain and laboring plough oxen. We shot them off before the fourteen-feet walls. Then arose various clouds of dust, shriekings, surrenderings, crying of 'Forgive us, great Prince, we never meant to do it, followed, as I had said, by the six-feet clearances.
I thought I had won me a friend, and that for once I might put my anchor down. My husband neglects me, so much cannot have escaped your eagle eye. He is twice my age, and he thinks more of you, more of Councillor Von Dessauer, more of his horse than of me, Ysolinde of Plassenburg. And I was made to be loved and to love. How much of either, think you, have I ever known?
So lay it to heart, as I have done." "Glad am I," said Dessauer, courteously, as if he had been turning a phrase on the terrace at Plassenburg "glad am I that in your hour you are to be mindful of old friends, for they are like old wine, which grows better and mellower with the years." "It is indeed well," said Otho von Reuss, ironically.
Poor old gentleman, after grand enough feats in war and peace, he fell melancholy, fell imbecile, blind, soon after middle life; and continued so for twenty years, till he died. Alas, alas, Plassenburg is now a Correction-House, where male and female scoundrels do beating of hemp; and pious Friedrich, like eloquent Johann, has become a forgotten object.
"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."
"'Tis a simple question 'Hath the Prince of Plassenburg a Princess, and is she not oft ahoo! Boris, prod me with thy lance-shaft hard, to keep me from doing myself an ill turn with this fellow's innocence." "Hold up, Jorian !" answered the long man, promptly pounding him on the back with the butt of his spear. "Hold up, fat Jorian! Let not thy love of mirth do thee any injury.
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