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But Prince Eugene's orders are express; remonstrances, cunctations only strengthen the determination of the High Heads or Head: Forward with this beautiful scheme! Seckendorf, puckered into dangerous anxieties, but summoning all his cunning, has at length, after six weeks' hesitation, to open it, as if casually, in some favorable hour, to his Prussian Majesty.
And he does not sign the Double-Marriage Treaty, Madam; only talks of signing it, as if we were a starved coach-horse, to be quickened along by a wisp of hay put upon the coach-pole close ahead of us always!" "JARNI-BLEU!" snuffles Seckendorf with a virtuous zeal, or looks it; and things are not pleasant at the royal dinner-table.
Blustering Broglio has no steadfastness of mind; explodes like an inflammable body, in this crackling off of the posts, and becomes a mere whirlwind of flaming gases. Old snuffling Seckendorf, born to ill success in his old days, strong only in caution, how is he to quench or stay this crackling of the posts?
These are the phenomena at Baireuth; Husband and Father-in-law having quitted their boar-hunt and hurried home. After three days, Friedrich Wilhelm rolled away again; lodged, once more, at Meuselwitz, with abstruse Seckendorf, and his good old Wife, who do the hospitalities well when they must, in spite of the single candle once visible.
These 6,000, and certain thousands of Pfalzers likewise in French pay, are now with Seckendorf, and have raised him to above 30,000; it is the one fruit King Friedrich has got by that 'Union of Frankfurt, and by all his long prospective haggling, and struggling for a 'Union of German Princes in general. Two pears, after that long shaking of the tree; both pears rotten, or indeed falling into Seckendorf, who is a basket of such quality!
Who would have expected it of people that should have known me; and whom I know, and have known, better than they fancy!" Pleasant passage for Seckendorf to chew the cud upon, through the night-watches!
The traitor Seckendorf had made such a choice of posts, left unaltered by Drum Thorring; what could French valor do? Nothing; neither French valor, nor Bavarian want of valor, could do anything but whirl to the right-about, at sight of the Austrian Sweeping-Apparatus; and go off explosively, as in former instances, at a rate almost unique in military annals. Finished within three weeks or so!
Once, at Meuselwitz, they say, he and some young secretary, of a smartish turn, sat working or conversing, in a large room with only one candle to illuminate it: the secretary, snuffing the candle, snuffed it out: "Pshaw," said Seckendorf impatiently, "where did you learn to handle snuffers?"
And indeed nothing came; and except those torments to young Friedrich and others, it was all Nothing. One of the strangest pieces of Black-Art ever done. Excellenz Seckendorf, whom Friedrich Wilhelm so loves, is by no means a beautiful man; far the reverse. Bodily, and the spirit corresponds, a stiff-backed, petrified, stony, inscrutable-looking, and most unbeautiful old Intriguer.
His hatred for Frederick II. and his eternal "combinations" went to such lengths that, during the first Silesian war, he offered the Austrian Court a detailed plan by which the "Land-hungry conqueror" might be personally rendered innocuous. However, Puck's manner of writing history may be softened a little. It is not necessary for the actor to present Seckendorf as an imbecile.
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