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Updated: July 10, 2025
"No letters and dispatches from my son at Regensburg, Lehndorf?" "None, most gracious sir." "If a courier comes, let me know of it without delay," continued the count, moving forward. "Anything else new, Lehndorf?" "Nothing new, your excellency." "What noise was that just now in the antechamber, while the commandants were in my cabinet?"
On the 5th of July the Prince's birthday was celebrated throughout the Duchy with great enthusiasm; this gave bitter offence to the King; shortly afterwards Bismarck left Berlin and joined the King, who was taking his annual cure at Carlsbad, and for July 28th a Council of State was summoned to meet at Regensburg.
Friedrich's own Delegate at Regensburg, a Baron von Plotho, come of old Brandenburg kindred, is a resolute, ready-tongued, very undaunted gentleman; learned in Diplomacies and Reich's Law; carries his head high, and always has his story at hand.
"I lay it before the imperial Diet," said he, at last, "whether the French ambassador shall be allowed entrance into the hall during the sitting of its members." "Ay, ay, let him enter," was the reply the first instance of unanimity among the envoys since the day they had arrived at Regensburg two years before!
No one who has not attended the celebrations in the cathedral of Regensburg can fully measure what has been lost for mankind through the domination of human rationalism in the place of religious devotion.
Middendorf's age permitted him to go only with the youngest pupils, who made the shortest trips. These excursions led the little boys into the Thuringian Forest, the Hartz Mountains, Saxony and Bohemia, Nuremberg and Wurzburg, and the older ones by way of Baireuth and Regensburg to Ulm.
"My whole correspondence with my father, during my last sojourn at Regensburg, besides copies of my letters to the Emperor and Marwitz, were in the drawer of my father's writing table, and have been carried off with the rest." "And did these letters compromise you, count?" asked Herr von Waldow, drawing nearer to him.
"They are caricatures of diplomatists who put on their official physiognomy if I ask them for a light, and select gestures and words with a truly Regensburg caution, if they ask for the key of the water-closet." Writing to Gerlach he speaks of "the lying, double-tongued policy of the Austrians.
At Regensburg I helped them to unload; for more than a week we worked; they nicknamed me baldhead, and when it was all over I gave the money I earned for the unloading to the big bargeman. We kissed each other at parting. I had still three of the gulden that Luigi gave me, and I went to a house-painter and got work with him.
At this moment The duke hears only his old hate and grudge, Barters the general good to gratify Private revenge and so falls Regensburg. WALLENSTEIN. Max., to what period of the war alludes he? My recollection fails me here. MAX. He means When we were in Silesia. WALLENSTEIN. Ay! is it so! But what had we to do there? MAX. To beat out The Swedes and Saxons from the province.
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