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It ran thus: "MONSIEUR LE BARON, Monsieur has been arrested here this morning; he is a white Frenchman, and there are strong suspicions against him. Place his partner M. B under the surveillance of the police instantly. You are made answerable for his safe custody." "Witness his Majesty's hand and seal, at Sans Souci, this " The Count.
The young man was led into the presence of the Iron King, who was seated on a black throne in a hall also hung with black, as a token of mourning for all the relations whom he had put to death. 'What are you doing in my country? he cried fiercely. 'I came here by accident, replied Souci, 'and if I ever escape from your clutches I will take warning by you and treat my subjects differently.
All this is true, but The king's supper parties are delightful; at them people talk reason, wit, science; freedom prevails thereat; he is the soul of it all; no ill-temper, no clouds, at any rate no storms; my life is free and well occupied, but Opera, plays, carousals, suppers at Sans Souci, military manoeuvres, concerts, studies, readings, but The city of Berlin, grand, better laid out than Paris; palaces, play-houses, affable queens, charming princesses, maids of honor beautiful and well-made, the mansion of Madame de Tyrconnel always full and sometimes too much so, but but My dear child, the weather is beginning to settle down into a fine frost."
But it was not before half-past one that a sudden hubbub of voices called us from the house, to find the whole white colony already gathered on the spot as by concerted signal. The Sans Souci was overrun with rabble, the stair and verandah thronged. From all these throats an inarticulate babbling cry went up incessantly; it sounded like the bleating of young lambs, but angrier.
In these yellow pages is a melancholy reflection of the gayety and gallantry of the Sans Souci Hotel seventy years ago.
The Seraglio in Stamboul was built by Mohammed the Second. The oldest part of the Vatican was commenced by Borgia, whose name it bears. The old Louvre was commenced in the reign of Henry the Eighth; the Tuilleries in that of Elizabeth. In the time of our civil war Versailles was yet a swamp. Sans Souci and the Escurial belong to the eighteenth century. The Serail of Jerusalem is a Turkish edifice.
Those Sans Souci carps may live to be a thousand years old and have nothing to tell but that one day is like another; and the history of friend Goody Twoshoes has not much more variety than theirs. Hard labour, hard fare, hard bed, numbing cold all night, and gnawing hunger most days. That is her lot.
Some which Frederick the Great fed at Sans Souci are there now, with great humps of blue mould on their old backs; and they could tell all sorts of queer stories, if they chose to speak but they are very silent, carps are of their nature peu communicatives.
But alas! the world of the air seemed as empty of her as the world below, and Souci was beginning to despair, and to think that he must go and search the world that lay in the sea. He was floating sadly along, not paying any heed to where he was going, when he saw in the distance a beautiful, bright sort of bird coming towards him.
Won't I send you to a mad-house, and have you put in a strait-jacket, till you know how to behave yourself! You infernal little wretch, you!" A sudden thought struck Sans Souci to move him by his affection for herself. "Uncle, look around you! The house is burning! if you do not rouse yourself and save your poor little 'wretch, she must perish in the flames!"
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