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Updated: May 22, 2025
But of course I knew it couldn't be, because no man, and especially no Prince, ever discussed anything really important with a woman. 'Recollect, Miss Racksole, that this afternoon, here, I am not the Prince. 'You are Count Steenbock, is that it? He started. 'For you only, he said, unconsciously lowering his voice.
Fra Steenbock wrested the Knight Gustavus's ring from Catherine's finger, and whispered in her ear: "It will cost the friend of thy youth his life and fortune; the King can do everything!" And the parents led her to King Gustavus, showed him that the ring was from the maiden's hand; and the King placed his own golden ring on her finger in the other's stead.
'Certainly, Prince, Nella replied sweetly. 'You were plain Count Steenbock last spring in Paris doubtless travelling incognito 'Silence, he entreated, with a wave of the hand, and his forehead went as white as paper. IN another moment they were all three talking quite nicely, and with at any rate an appearance of being natural.
He is the perfection of health. In three months he will be married. No, I shall never be anything but a Serene Highness, the most despicable of God's creatures. 'But what about the State secret which you mentioned? Is not that a responsibility? 'Ah! he said. 'That is over. That belongs to the past. It was an accident in my dull career. I shall never be Count Steenbock again.
The mother thought so likewise, and as there chanced to come a letter the same day and hour from the young Knight Gustavus, Fra Steenbock committed it to the flames. All the letters that came afterwards and all the letters that Catherine wrote, were burnt by her mother, and doubts and evil reports were whispered to Catherine, that she was forgotten abroad by her young lover.
After the Swedish general, Steenbock, and his army were made prisoners, count Wellen concluded a treaty with the administrator of Holstein-Gottorp, by which the towns of Stetin and Wisma were sequestered into the hands of the king of Prussia; the administrator engaged to secure them, and all the rest of Swedish Pomerania, from the Poles and Muscovites; but as the governor of Pomerania refused to comply with this treaty, those allies marched into the province, subdued the island of Eugen, and obliged Stetin to surrender.
Meanwhile the czar landed with an army in Finland, which he totally reduced. Steenbock maintained himself in Tonningen until all his supplies were cut off; and then he was obliged to deliver himself and his troops prisoners of war.
The czar and king Augustus had penetrated into Pomerania; the king of Denmark had taken Staden, reduced Bremen, and laid Hamburgh under contribution; but count Steenbock, the Swedish general, defeated the Danish army in Mecklenburg, ravaged Holstein with great barbarity, and reduced the town of Altena to ashes.
Margaret answered craftily and hastily: "He demands my sister Martha's hand in marriage!" and the King gave Svanta Sture the bride the Queen had asked for him. We are now in the royal bridal chamber, whither King Gustavus led his third consort. Catherine Steenbock, also another's bride, the bride of the Knight Gustavus. It is a sad story.
'I never hoped to see you again, he said. 'Why not? 'One never sees again those whom one wishes to see. 'As for me, I was perfectly convinced that we should meet again. 'Why? 'Because I always get what I want. 'Then you wanted to see me again? 'Certainly. You interested me extremely. I have never met another man who could talk so well about sculpture as the Count Steenbock.
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