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He handed him the envelope and left him addressing it in boyish pride. It was Karl's last visit to the consulate. He appeared to have spoken truly, and the consul presently learned that he had indeed been transferred, through some high official manipulation, to the personal service of the governor of Rheinfestung.
His memory still survived in the barracks through the later editions of his former delightful stupidities, many of them, it is to be feared, were inventions, and stories that were supposed to have come from Rheinfestung were described in the slang of the Offiziere as being "colossal."
"But by this time you must be in the family of a field-marshal, at least," suggested the consul pleasantly. "Not to-day, but next week," said Karl, with sublime simplicity; "THEN I am going to serve with the governor commandant of Rheinfestung." The consul smiled, motioned him to a seat at a table in the outer office, and left him undisturbed to his correspondence.
"And Rheinfestung its plans its details, even its dangerous foundations by the river they were to a soldier singularly instructive?" "You have reason to say so," said Captain Christian, curling his little mustache. "And the fortress you think?" "Imprenable! Mais" The consul remembered General Adlerkreutz's "Zo-o," and wondered. They were partners.
But the consul remembered Rheinfestung, and could not imagine it as a home for Karl, or in any way fostering his peculiar qualities. For it was eminently a fortress of fortresses, a magazine of magazines, a depot of depots.
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