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They know perfectly well that I cannot do without them, and they occasionally take advantage of the fact to annoy me. They have some cause of complaint, I confess, and Ah! What says Baron Rietmann?" "My liege," replied the chamberlain, pale and breathless. "Do not look so terrified," said Leopold; "what says the baron?"
Go, my lord-chamberlain, to Baron Rietmann, and say that the arrears due the orchestra shall be paid to-morrow, and thereunto I pledge my imperial word. Now, Prince Eugene, let us resume our seats. I presume that my golden promises will restore the dumb to speech." And so they did. The scenic effect of the opera was beautiful.
No; she was perfectly unconscious of any thing but her book. "Rietmann is a bold fellow," said Leopold at length, "but he is a great artiste, and I forgive his presumption. He is quite correct, however, as regards the orchestra. The imperial treasury has been drained for the army, and nothing remains for my musicians."
"Go, then, to the musicians. See the first violin, Baron von Rietmann, and tell him that the overture must commence." The lord-chamberlain went off on his mission, while Leopold, in undisguised impatience, stood at the door of his box waiting. The empress, apparently not cognizant of any thing around her, kept her eyes steadfastly riveted on her book.
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