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And don't you remember what words you put into Cousin Lizzie's mouth, and how you made neighbor Flink ridicule her? Ah, I am afraid you will pay dearly for this" piece of boldness." "It is not quite so bad as your calling Tottleben a notorious adventurer; for the princes are not here, but Tottleben is before the gates of Berlin, and will revenge himself."
General Tottleben had turned away, as if afraid to encounter the pallid, terrified countenance of his slave. "If you do not execute my command," said he, finally, "I will have your only son hung, as he deserves to be. If you betray to any one soever a word of my order, I will have your wife whipped to death. Now think of it." Ivan shook as if in an ague. His teeth chattered together.
"Never have I signed my name with a happier heart than I will have when I sign it to this affidavit, which will procure for us both the heart-felt blessings of so many children." He stepped to the general's writing-table, and, following his direction, seated himself and wrote. Tottleben in the mean while walked up and down pensively, his arms folded.
"In three hours the wedding-torches shall be lighted, and in order to make it the pleasanter, we will have the wails of the people of Berlin as a musical accompaniment." "In three hours, then," said Count de Lacy, bowing low; "I hasten to announce it to my officers. I am burning with impatience to witness this rare spectacle." Count de Lacy departed, and General Tottleben was again alone.
For Tottleben has himself been in difficulties; indeed, was never long out of them, during the long stormy life he had. Weissenfels dying, Tottleben became a soldier of Polish Majesty's; acceptable soldier, but disagreed with Bruhl, for which nobody will like him worse.
They halted not far from the place where Pfannenstiel lay, and he crept carefully nearer. He then ascertained from their conversation that this was only a small division of the army, which had advanced by forced marches from Frankfort, and was commanded by General Tottleben." "By Tottleben!" cried Kretschmer in dismay.
"Lacy, who, after hovering about in these vicinities for four days, had now actually come up, so soon as Eugen and Hulsen withdrew, was deeply disgusted at the Terms of Capitulation; angry to find that Tottleben had concluded without him; and, in fact, flew into open rage at the arrangements Tottleben had made for himself and for others.
"If no one else dares to tell him the truth, I will do it; and with argument and entreaty compel him to be humane, and to respect the property of others. Come, sir, let us go to General Tottleben!" "No, sir. I am not going with you," said Bachmann, laughing. "I am not a man to tremble on the eve of battle, and yet I fear to meet Tottleben's angry looks.
My orders are very strict, and I have already yielded too much. It is written in these dispatches that the arms must be given up." "The arms?" said Gotzkowsky, hastily. "Yes, but not all arms. Take some of them we have three hundred inferior rifles take them, sir, and fulfil the letter of your orders, and save our honor." General von Tottleben did not answer immediately.
Yet it was now this same money which brought misfortune to them, and was the cause of their suffering and mortal anxiety; for General Tottleben had threatened that if the Jews could not pay the tax imposed on them, he would take the mint farmers with him as hostages, and destroy their factories.
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