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Thereupon I prevailed upon my most excellent friend, Baron Schilling, to speak to his acquaintance, State-Councillor Alquin, who is possessed of a paper-factory, on the subject.
Without calling me back to exercise the functions of State-Councillor, the title was restored to me; and the Minister of Public Instruction, M. de Vatimesnil, authorized the reopening of my course. I retain a deep impression of the Sorbonne which I then entered, and of the lectures I delivered there during two years.
Or there is Nicolai, the founder of 'The Library of the Fine Arts, to which," he added with a sly smile, "I hope yet to see you contributing. Perhaps Fräulein Reimarus will convert you that charming young lady there talking with her brother-in-law, who is a Danish state-councillor. She is the great friend of Lessing as I live, there comes Lessing himself.
But she did very well; and she amused Mrs. Rothesay all the while with her gay French songs, so that Olive was glad to have her near. The day after Christal's arrival, Miss Vanbrugh had summoned her chief state-councillor, Olive Rothesay, to talk over the matter. Then and there, Meliora unfolded all she knew and all she guessed of the girl's history.
Benjamin Constant, who had with great rapidity transformed himself from an enthusiastic royalist into an imperial state-councillor, came to the queen's parlors and regaled her guests by reading to them his romance Adolphe; and Metternich, the Austrian ambassador seemed to have no other destiny than to amuse the queen and the circle of ladies assembled around them, and to invent new social games for their entertainment.
"I like it for itself, and I like it because it may some day be of great service to me." "You see you are ambitious, Wulf, and I am not. I don't want to be a great commander or a state-councillor, and if I did want it ever so much I know I should never be one or the other. I am content to be a thane, as my father was before me, and seek no greater change than that of a stay for a month at court.
""Have you, then, so much confidence in your servant that you can intrust him with a secret you will not allow me to know?" ""Our coachman is a member of the club," said the president; "we shall be driven by a State-Councillor." ""Then we run another risk," said the general, laughing, "that of being upset."
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