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Updated: June 9, 2025
WALLENSTEIEN. My courier? BUTLER. For some hours. WALLENSTEIN. And I not know it? BUTLER. The sentinels detain him In custody. Damnation! BUTLER. And his letter Was broken open, and is circulated Through the whole camp. WALLENSTEIN. You know what it contains? BUTLER. Question me not. TERZKY. Illo! Alas for us. WALLENSTEIN. Hide nothing from me I can bear the worst. Prague then is lost. It is.
At the same moment, he heard, from the adjoining building, the shrieks of the Countesses Terzky and Kinsky, who had just learnt the violent fate of their husbands. Ere he had time to reflect on these terrible events, Deveroux, with the other murderers, was in his chamber. The Duke was in his shirt, as he had leaped out of bed, and leaning on a table near the window.
TERZKY. It is as if the earth had swallowed him. He had scarce left thee, when I went to seek him. I wished some words with him but he was gone. How, when, and where, could no one tell me. Nay, I half believe it was the devil himself; A human creature could not so at once Have vanished. Is it true that thou wilt send Octavio? TERZKY. How, Octavio! Whither send him?
ILLO. No other, They said, had right to issue orders but Lieutenant-General Piccolomini. What? How is that? ILLO. He takes that office on him by commission, Under sign-manual from the emperor. TERZKY. From the emperor hearest thou, duke? ILLO. At his incitement The generals made that stealthy flight TERZKY. Duke, hearest thou?
A few hours more, and you will find a father, Will see yourself surrounded by new friends, And I henceforth shall be but as a stranger, Lost in the many "Speak with my Aunt Terzky!" With hurrying voice she interrupted me. She faltered. What since has happened You know. And is it your excess of modesty Or are you so incurious, that you do not Ask me too of my secret? MAX. Of your secret?
There are none but friends here, are there? Take him off with you, force him off, I entreat you, Butler! Field-marshal! a word with you. A thousand for one. Fill; fill it once more up to the brim. To this gallant man's health! Slow and sure, my noble brother! Hast parsed it all yet? Some words yet to go through? Ha? What am I to do? TERZKY, and at the same time ISOLANI. Sign your name.
For nine days, did the two armies remain within musket-shot of each other, when Count Terzky, from the camp of the Imperialists, appeared with a trumpeter in that of the allies, inviting General Arnheim to a conference. The purport was, that Wallenstein, notwithstanding his superiority, was willing to agree to a cessation of arms for six weeks.
Dessert was placed on the table; Leslie gave the signal, and in an instant the hall was filled with armed men, who placed themselves behind the chairs of Wallenstein's trusted officers with shouts of "Long live Ferdinand!" The three officers instantly sprang to their feet, but Terzky and Kinsky were slain before they had time to draw their swords.
The whole corps of the Pappenheimers is Drawn out: the younger Piccolomini, Their colonel, they require: for they affirm, That he is in the palace here, a prisoner; And if thou dost not instantly deliver him, They will find means to free him with the sword. TERZKY. What shall we make of this? WALLENSTEIN. Said I not so? O my prophetic heart! he is still here.
All is in the glow, And must be beaten while 'tis malleable. TERZKY. Do you go thither, Illo? I must stay And wait here for the Countess Terzky. Know That we, too, are not idle. Break one string, A second is in readiness. ILLO. Yes! yes! I saw your lady smile with such sly meaning. What's in the wind? TERZKY. A secret. Hush! she comes. The COUNTESS steps out from a closet.
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