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A white domino the Prince of Wales? What's the key to this new riddle? Can there be some secret doings here? I will question Baronet Hotham cautiously. Mayhap this much-decorated gentleman can give me some information. May I ask how His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, is enjoying himself in Berlin? I am Count Seckendorf. HOTHAM. Most happy to meet you. In the best hands?
Here Seckendorf, having dispatched parties to seize the neighboring fortress, and the passes of the mountains, waited for further orders from Vienna.
Seckendorf, Grumkow: we had often heard of Devil-Diplomatists; and shuddered over horrible pictures of them in Novels; hoping it was all fancy: but here actually is a pair of them, transcending all Novels; perhaps the highest cognizable fact to be met with in Devil-Diplomacy.
At which the Kaiser is naturally thrice and four times wroth and alarmed; and Seckendorf in the TABAKS-COLLEGIUM had need to be doubly busy. Important months; and a Prussian-English "Waterspout," as we have named it, to be seen, with due wonder, in the political sky!
And still rarer is it to see a Seckendorf who, in spite of his clumsy "combinations," did not quite sink to the level of the Marshal von Kalb. At this point a dramaturgic hint might not come amiss.
Princes of the Powers of the Air, Shall we define them? It is certain the solid Earth or her facts, except being held in perpetual terror by such workings of the Shadow-world, reaped no effect from those Twenty Years of Congressing; Seckendorf himself might as well have lain in bed, as ridden those 25,000 miles, and done such quantities of double-distillations.
Seckendorf himself continues to dislike and dissuade: but the High Heads at Vienna are bent on it; and command new strenuous attempts; literally at the last moment; which is now come. Since November last, Wilhelmina is on visit at Berlin, first visit since her marriage; she stays there for almost ten months; not under the happiest auspices, poor child.
"Given to pouting," too! No, certainly; your Insipidity of Brunswick, without prospects of ready money; dangerous for CAGOTAGE; "not a word to say for herself in company, and given to pouting:" I do not reckon her the eligible article! Seckendorf, Schulenburg, Grumkow and all hands are busy in this matter: geeho-ing the Crown-Prince towards the mark set before him.
Our experienced FELDZEUGMEISTER, Ordnance-Master and Diplomatist, Graf von Seckendorf, a conscientious Protestant, and the cunningest of men, able to lie to all lengths, dare he try it?
Excellent Army; but commanded by nobody in particular; commanded by a HOFKRIEGSRATH at Vienna, by a Franz Duke of Tuscany, by Feldmarschall Seckendorf, and by subordinates who were disobedient to him: which accordingly, almost without help of the Turk and his disorderly ferocity, rubbed itself to pieces before long.
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