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"You will be irretrievably ruined if you do not furnish it," laughed Potemkin, while he went on throwing his balls and catching them "If those two services are not here on the day you take a journey to Siberia, friend Artankopf." "I will be punctual, your highness," sighed the jeweller. "But the payment I must buy the gold." "The payment!
Rather would you look to find him pouring over plans of fortifications, with the pages of Yauban spread open before him; or some history detailing the campaigns of Suwarrow, Diebitsch, Paskiewitch or Potemkin? In this instance, however, appearances were deceptive. Though the baron had proved an excellent military officer, and seen service, he was a student of Nature.
Just then there was a knock at the door, and Potemkin, who was standing with his fist clinched and his teeth set, fell back into his seat. "How dare you disturb me?" cried he, savagely. "Pardon me, your highness, but this is your day for receiving the foreign ambassadors, and his excellency of Austria craves an audience?" "Cobenzl? Is he alone?" "Yes, your highness."
Nevertheless, I must allow that it was extremely presumptuous in Munchausen to tell half the sovereigns of the world that they were wrong, and advise them what they ought to do; and that instead of ordering millions of their subjects to massacre one another, it would be more to their interest to employ their forces in concert for the general good; as if he knew better than the Empress of Russia, the Grand Vizier, Prince Potemkin, or any other butcher in the world.
"One hundred and twenty thousand rubles' worth of gold!" said he to himself. "I'll have the things melted into coin it is more portable than plate." The door opened, and Narischkin, the minister of police, entered. "Out, the whole gang of you!" cried Potemkin; and there was a simultaneous exodus of officers, pages, and valets.
This fancy Potemkin, who stood ready to flatter the empress at any price, undertook to realize, and he built her a city in the fashion in which cities were built in the times of the Arabian Nights, and made it flourish in the same unsubstantial fashion. The magnificent Potemkin never hesitated before any question of cost. Russia was rich, and could bleed freely to please the empress's whim.
But whether Princess or not Princess, our Madame Potemkin is most charming, and you may bless your stars that you are not obliged to read a page of panegyric upon her. Edgeworth and Mrs. Lataffiere. We went from Madame Potemkin to Madame d'Haussonville's, with her we found Madame de Bouille playing at billiards, just in the attitude in which we had left her three months ago.
You believe in the honesty of Frederick, while he speculates upon the consequences of your death!" The empress grew pale and her eyes flashed with anger. "Prove it to me," said she, imperiously. Potemkin drew from his bosom the letter he had that morning received from Frederick. Catharine read it, and then said, "Much flattery, and many mysterious promises. What do they mean?"
He accompanied her on her famous trip to the Crimea, arranged for her by her minister and favourite, Potemkin when fairy villages, with happy populations singing and dancing, sprang up in the road wherever she passed as if by magic quite dispelling her ideas of the poverty and oppression of some of her subjects. Among the portraits there is a miniature of the Empress Catherine.
In this war, Prince Potemkin, the favorite and prime minister of Catharine, greatly distinguished himself; also General Suwarrow, afterwards noted for his Polish campaigns. In this war Russia lost two hundred thousand men, and the Turks three hundred and thirty thousand, besides expending two hundred and fifty millions of piasters.
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