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"Van Swieten," said she, then, "what do you mean by saying that 'in this sense' I was not guilty of Josepha's death." "I think, your majesty," replied the emperor, "that I can explain those words. He means to say that had you yielded to his frequent petitions to make use of inoculation as a safeguard against the violence of the small-pox, our dear Josepha might have survived her attack.
He knows something, if not all." Then he called hastily to his trusty servant, and almost dragged him to a window. "See you yon man?" he cried. "Haste! follow him! But let him not see you. He is young, but old in craft. Keep him in sight all day. Let me know whither he goes, and what he does." It was night when the servant returned. "Well? well?" cried Van Swieten eagerly.
The scholars burst into a loud laugh, and as soon as the youth had reached them, Paul Van Swieten snarled in a nasal tone: "How did deserting suit you? How are affairs in Spain, master Glipper?"
The empress, who had already crossed her anteroom, looked back with a countenance beaming with noble energy. "I will do my duty," replied she. "I will do what Christian feeling prompts. I will go to Josepha." "No, your majesty, no," cried Van Swieten, again laying hands upon his sovereign. "You owe it to your people and your children not to expose yourself to danger." The empress smiled sadly.
Suddenly she uttered a cry, and opened her arms. "He comes! he comes!" cried she; and her dying eyes unclosed with a ray of joy. Yes, he came he, whom she had so longed to see. When Van Swieten told him that the empress had gone to Josepha's room, he started from his seat, and hurried through the corridor with such wild speed that the physician had been unable to follow him.
At his first wife's bedside Joseph had watched day and night; but Josepha's he did not approach. In vain had she sent each day, through Van Swieten, a petition to see him, if only once; Joseph returned, for all answer, that his duty to his mother and sisters forbade the risk. And there lay the woman whose princely station mocked her misery; there she lay unpitied and unloved.
But I up and told him nay; 'twas neither demoiselle nor dame that penned yon lie, but Ghysbrecht Van Swieten, and those foul knaves, Cornelis and Sybrandt; these changed the true letter for one of their own; I told him as how I saw the whole villainy done through a chink; and now, if I have not been and told you!" "Oh, cruel! cruel! But he lives. The fear of fears is gone. Thank God!"
Chambers speaks of bloody sweat occurring periodically in a woman of twenty-seven; the intervals, however, were occasionally but a week or a fortnight, and the exudation was not confined to any one locality. Van Swieten quotes the history of a case of suppression of the menstrual function in which there were convulsive contractions of the body, followed by paralysis of the right arm.
"He is a very great man," said he to himself, "and he is right. But for him, Austria would fall to the rank of a second power. What if he does know it and boast of it? He is a truthful and candid man. Voild tout." And he sat down to write to Van Swieten in Berlin to beware of saying any thing prejudicial to the interests of the Porte. He had just concluded his letter when Kaunitz returned.
He touched the keys vigorously, and sang once more, "God save the Emperor Francis!" and carried away by the melody so simple and yet so beautiful, the two women and the old footman sang with him the tender and artless words. "And now," said Haydn, eagerly, "now, I will write down the melody on the spot, and then you shall run with it to Councillor von Swieten. He must add a few verses to it.
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