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"Like Prince Louis of Baden?" asked Von Starhemberg, smiling. "Yes, like Prince Louis of Baden," said the margrave, emphatically. "He is quite as brave and skilful as the duke; but he is modest, is willing to listen to advice, and to be guided by the experience of good counsellors.
"But I do not love you, I tell you; and it is useless to say another word on the subject." "Nay," said the count, taking her hand, "it is not useless. I beseech you, do not deny my suit." At this moment the door opened, and a servant came in with a golden tray, on which lay a letter. "From her majesty the empress," said the servant, handing it to Count Starhemberg.
Count Starhemberg rang the bell, and ordered a servant to bear a request to his niece to join him in the drawing-room. "The countess would have the honor of joining her uncle immediately," was the answer. "This promises well," said the old count, looking relieved. "She generally practises her music at this hour; and I am surprised that "
I cannot consent to have the army crippled by division; we must put forth all our strength, if we are to lay siege to Belgrade, and to this one end let our warlike preparations be directed." "Your majesty's will is law," replied Count von Starhemberg. "It only remains for you to name the one to whom the chief command of the Austrian forces is to be intrusted."
We are driving before us a host of camels, mules, and Turkish prisoners." Count Starhemberg received the King of Poland in the magnificent tent of the Grand Vizier and greeted him as a deliverer.
"Do you think his majesty will bestow the chief command upon his brother-in-law?" asked General Count Portia. "Yes," replied Count Kinsky, with a shrug. "The emperor is so inordinately fond of the Duke of Lorraine that he fancies him endowed with military genius." "General," whispered the Margrave of Baden to Count Starhemberg, "I wish to say something to you in private.
But, amid this "abomination of desolation," they still lifted their eyes to heaven for help, and still clung to hope of rescue. Count Starhemberg, as usual, had ascended the tower of St. Stephen's; while in the city below every form was prostrate in prayer.
"Your majesty," interrupted Count Starhemberg, vehemently, "leave to me the defence of Vienna, and I swear that, sooner than deliver your capital to the Turks, I will perish under its ruins." "And I," added the margrave. "solemnly adjure your majesty not to confide the chief command of your forces to the Duke of Lorraine, for it is evident that he does not desire so perilous an appointment.
He was picked up insensible, and carried home; but Rudiger Ton Starhemberg had no time to be sick: so three days after he rose from his bed, and, with his head bound up, mounted his horse, and returned to his post. His short absence had been productive of much evil in Vienna. It had dispirited the timid and emboldened the insubordinate.
"And that, of course, signifies that there is nothing good to be told," added Von Starhemberg. "If the Duke of Lorraine had met with any success, he would not have failed to send a courier with the tidings." "Unhappily, since he has had command of the army, he has had many more reverses to communicate than victories," replied the margrave, with a sigh.
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