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"Rodolf, you have a skilful eye in these matters, how many Northmen would it take to give that same gibbet to the upstart?"
The archduke Albert, fifth son of the emperor Maximilian II., and brother of Rodolf, stood high in the opinion of Philip, his uncle, and merited his reputation for talents, bravery, and prudence. He had been early made archbishop of Toledo, and afterward cardinal; but his profession was not that of these nominal dignities.
A like story is told of Rodolf of Hapsburgh, the founder of the greatness of Austria, and one of the most open-hearted of men. A flagon of water was brought to him when his army was suffering from severe drought. 'I cannot, he said, 'drink alone, nor can all share so small a quantity. I do not thirst for myself, but for my whole army.
With that the Tribune, placing his dagger on the ground, while he cautiously guarded it with his foot, bound up the wounded limb, for which condescension Rodolf gave him short thanks; resumed his weapon and lamp; closed the door; drew over it the long, heavy bolt without, and returned to his couch, deeply and indignantly musing over the treason he had so fortunately escaped.
They dared even to blame the proud Tribune for the gorgeous extravagance they had themselves been the first to recommend and half insinuated sinister and treacherous motives in his acquittal of the Barons from the accusation of Rodolf. In the very Parliament which the Tribune had revived and remodelled for the support of freedom freedom was abandoned.
It was the formula employed by a planetary king, like Napolyon of Flamberge or Rodolf of Excalibur. And, now that he thought of it, Angus had consistently used the royal first-person plural. Maybe that fellow who had shouted about Angus the First of Gram had only been doing what he'd been paid to do.
Rodolf scratched his huge head, and seemed awhile lost in calculation; at length he said, "You, Captain, must be the best judge, when I tell you, that twenty thousand Romans are the least of his force, so I heard by the way; and this evening he is to accept the crown, and depose the Emperor." "Ha, ha!" laughed Montreal, "is he so mad? then he will want not our aid to hang himself.
There was a little laughing at this; but Gillian was saying in her own mind that it was a fine thing to be one's own Rodolf of Hapsburg, and in that light she held Captain White, who, in her present state of mind, she held to have been a superior being to all the Somervilles -perhaps to all the Devereuxes who ever existed.
The mailed warriors standing around it, so motionless, so solemn, filled him with a frozen, nameless fear. He had never a doubt but that they were the dead arisen. The foremost that met his eyes were Theodoric and Arthur the next, grim Rodolf, father of a dynasty of emperors.
Donner und Hagel, I have lived long enough to care only for my own life, and the great captain's next to it; for the rest, I reck not if ye southerns cut each other's throats, and make all Italy one grave." With this benevolent speech, Rodolf entered the closet; but ere Rienzi could close the door, he stepped forth again "Hold," said he: "this blood flows fast.
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