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"Knightley!" "Thanks," said Knightley with a smile. Tessin reached out to take Knightley's hands, then instantly stopped, glanced from Knightley to Scrope and drew back. "Knightley!" cried the Major in a voice of welcome, rising in his seat. Then he too glanced expectantly at Scrope and sat down again.
"No, nothing has changed," he said a third time, and again his eyes began to travel wistfully from face to face. Tessin abruptly turned his back; Shackleton blinked his eyes at the ceiling with altogether too profound an unconcern; Scrope reached out for the wine, and spilt it as he filled his glass; Wyley busily drew diagrams with a wet finger on the table. All these details Knightley remarked.
"See to it, Tessin! Ensign Barbour of the Tangier Foot was killed to-day. He was quartered in the Main-Guard. Take Knightley to his quarters and see what you can do. By the way, Knightley, there's a question I should have put to you before. By what road did you come in?" "Down Teviot Hill past the Henrietta Fort.
They had got an organisation now that was working out most satisfactorily. Had I seen a sector? I had seen the sector of Soissons. Yes, but that was not now an offensive sector. I must see an offensive sector; see the whole method. Lieutenant de Tessin must see that that was arranged.... Neither he nor his two colleagues spoke of the Germans with either hostility or humanity.
"That's for the King's Battalion," said Knightley with a smile. "Yes," said Tessin, and picking up his sword from a corner he slung the bandolier across his shoulder. The bell rang out again; this time the number of the strokes was twenty. "That's for my Lord Dunbarton's Regiment," said Knightley. "Yes," said two of the remaining officers.
"Speak, sister; name the point which Count Tessin dares to contest with you." "Oh, the count is a man and a scholar, and has full right to differ," said Ulrica, graciously. "The question was a comparison of Queen Elizabeth of England and Queen Christina of Sweden.
The princess immediately assumed so scornful an expression, that even Pollnitz scarcely found courage to present Count Tessin. "Ah! you come from Sweden," said Amelia, immediately after the presentation. "Sweden is a dark and gloomy country, and you have indeed done well to save yourself, by taking refuge in our gay and sunny clime." The count was evidently wounded.
But during the nine years that it took to bore the great tunnel, what juvenile activity there was here, what feverish eagerness in this village, crowded, inundated, overflowed by workmen from Italy, from Tessin, from Germany and France! One would have thought that out of that dark hole, dug out in the mountain, they were bringing nuggets of gold.
"Your royal highness calls this a refuge," said he; "you must, then, think those to be pitied who dwell in my fatherland?" "I do not feel it necessary to confide my views on that subject to Count Tessin," said Amelia, with a short, rude laugh. "Yes, sister, it is necessary," said Ulrica, with a magical smile, "you must justify yourself to the count, for you have cast contempt upon his country."
Still by the enchanted standard towers the other; still the enchanted standard waves aloft, with its brave ensign of the solitary "Fighting Man" girded by the gems that had flashed in the crown of Odin. "Thine be the honour of lowering that haughty flag," cried William, turning to one of his favourite and most famous knights, Robert de Tessin.
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