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In prose there were several perfunctory reviews contributed to the Litteratur-Zeitung, and also an anecdote exhumed from an old chronicle and retold for the Merkur relating to a breakfast given to the Duke of Alva by the Countess of Schwarzburg in the year 1547.
"Be calm, I pray you; but a tremendous change has been affected at Delgratz. Last night, while Theodore and the Queen were at dinner, the Seventh Regiment mutinied. It was on guard at the Schwarzburg. Officers and men acted together. There was no resistance. It was impossible. Theodore and Helena were killed!" This man, who appealed for calmness, was himself in a white heat of emotion.
He could not hang round the station while a messenger went to his son, and if he meant to effect a surprise he had succeeded admirably. Leaving a valet and maid to bring the luggage, which an obsequious customs officer cleared at once, he ushered his wife into a ramshackle victoria and told the man to drive to the Schwarzburg.
So I am a blend of French realism and American level headedness, and both sides of my nature warn me that a King should trust his people. Sometimes the people are slow to learn that vital fact. Well, they must be taught, and the first lesson in a State like Kosnovia might well be given by trying those felons of the Schwarzburg before a duly constituted court of law." "Fine talk, Alec. Fine talk!
Of the longer walks which we took in the spring and summer the most beautiful was the one leading through Blankenburg to the entrance of the Schwarzathal, and thence through the lofty, majestically formed group of cliffs at whose foot the clear, swift Schwarza flows, dashing and foaming, to Schwarzburg.
For a long time he did not move, but remained in his place, with half-closed eyes, apparently ruminating upon the past conversation. When he rose at last, he had reached the conclusion that his coming to Schwarzburg was a step upon which he might congratulate himself. From that day his acquaintance with Greif gradually ripened into an intimacy.
As the good mother at home was to each student in that assembly, so was their dear Alma Mater to them all. He drank his beaker to all good Korps students, to all the brave colours there assembled, to all the professors, to the University itself, 'Hoch, Schwarzburg! Hoch! he cried in ringing tones as he raised his glass high in air. 'Hoch! Hoch! Hoch! shouted hundreds of voices.
The man was the same who had brought Greif the news at Schwarzburg, a devoted fellow, born and bred on the estate, unlike the house servants who had been changed so often. 'Karl, said Greif, going up to him, 'you must harness and drive me back to Greifenstein at once. I am sorry for you, but I am too ill to stay here. I will walk down the road come after me as soon as you can.
Germans are born chorus singers, and their great men do not sing themselves, but conduct the singing of others. The University of which Greif was a student, and which shall be called for convenience Schwarzburg, was one of the oldest in the country.
The example of electoral Saxony was imitated by the petty Saxon princes, and Anhalt, Lippe, Schwarzburg, Reuss, Mecklenburg and Aldenburg joined the Rhenish confederation. Dantzig became a nominal free town with a French garrison. The brave Hessians resisted this fresh act of despotism.
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