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After much talk we decided that the best plan would be that I should dispatch a cipher telegram next morning from a French port to tell them to send the four second-rate boats to cruise off the North of Ireland and West of Scotland. Then when I had done this I should move down Channel with Stephan and operate at the mouth, while the other two boats could work in the Irish Sea.
At a small village named Lijeva Rijeka we made a long halt to allow the doctor to transact some official business. We ate up what meat we had left, and had great fun with the village big-wigs. Strangers are beings of rare occurrence in the mountains, and we always came in for much "courteous curiosity." Dr. S. and Stephan enjoyed answering inquiries as to who we were immensely.
A parchment document, which extended to twice the length of a man, was now unrolled, and proved to be a patent of Stephan Urosh, the father of Stephan Dushan, endowing the great convent of Dechani, in Albania. Another curiosity in the collection is the first banner of Kara Georg, which the Servians consider as a national relic.
Stephan Arkadyevitch had gone to Petersburg to perform the most natural and essential official duty so familiar to everyone in the government service, though incomprehensible to outsiders that duty, but for which one could hardly be in government service, of reminding the ministry of his existence and having, for the due performance of this rite, taken all the available cash from home, was gaily and agreeably spending his days at the races and in the summer villas.
They showed us the queen's tomb, split from top to bottom. The priests naturally claim a miracle; but Pavlovitch said, "I tink dey verry clever, dey done dat wi' gunpowder." The Tzar Stephan had wished to build the church of gold and precious stones, but a soothsayer said
That is his intention, if the gods permit. Joint-King of Bohemia, to be Kaiser of the Holy Romish Reich. Friedrich's envoy protested; as did Kur-Pfalz's, with still more vehemence, and then withdrew to Hanau: the other Seven voted September 13th 1745: and it was done. A new Kaiser, Franz Stephan, or Franz I., with our blessing on him, if that can avail much. But I fear it cannot.
"Stephen or Stephan, his Russian name and I, were born in Russia, where father superintended an immense tract of oil wells for Mr. Heron. Heron felt it his duty to look after our future. He had just married at that time. You must know Mrs. Heron well enough to understand that she wouldn't like to have two half-grown-up children thrust upon her.
The curse of modern life is the multiplication of books. Very true, and yet I find that Wedekind is "literary," that he could exclaim with Stephan Mallarmé: "La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres." Regarding the modern stage he is also positive.
Sabin. 10th Ward A. G. Hopkinson, I. U. Masters. 11th Ward Thos. Dixon, Daniel Stephan. Mayor Edward S. Flint. President of the Council Henry S. Stevens.
S. and Stephan slept somewhere else. After the heat of the valley, we found the air very keen up here; Kolašin lies over 3,000 feet, and is the highest town of any size in Montenegro. On the following morning we visited the Governor Martinović formally in his house.
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