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"You will repeat this command, in my name, to the officer at the next station, and commission him to have it repeated at every station where my regiments are quartered. Every one shall give Trenck an opportunity to escape, but silently; no word must be spoken to him on the subject. It must depend upon him to make use of the most favorable moment.
He tried to cut out a small piece and to ascertain the thickness of the wall; this was short work the door opened inside, and it was easy to cut around and remove the lock. It was made of simple oak boards. Once convinced of this, Trenck prudently sought his mattress in order to obtain rest and strength. It was impossible to commence his labor then.
He awakened Trenck, and asked him how he had amused himself, during the long hours of solitude. "I looked through all your house, and then entered the stables and gladdened my heart by the sight of your beautiful horses." "Thunder and lightning! You have then seen my horses," cried Halber, thoroughly provoked. "Did no wish arise in your heart to mount one and seek your liberty?"
The reader will be so kind as to recollect that, as I have before said, it was this Colonel Jaschinsky who on the 12th of February, the same year, at Berlin, prevailed on me to write to the Austrian Trenck, my cousin; that he received the letter open, and undertook to send it according to its address; also that, in this letter, I in jest had asked him to send me some Hungarian horses, and, should they come, had promised one to Jaschinsky.
For nine years Trenck had languished in prison for nine years Amelia's only thought, only desire, was to enable him to escape. Her life was consecrated to this one object. She thought not of the gold she had sacrificed she had offered up not only her entire private fortune, but had made debts which her income was utterly inadequate to meet.
The pandour chieftain Trenck soon became so rich, that he excited the envy of the noblest and wealthiest men in the kingdom, so rich that he was able to lend large sums of money to the powerful and influential Baron Lowenwalde. You see, baron, it only needs a determined will to become rich." "Oh! the foolish man," said Weingarten, shrugging his shoulders.
Enemies naturally desire to destroy each other. Trenck would succeed if we did not warn the king, and enable him to anticipate his enemy." "How can this be done? Will the king really go to Konigsberg to be present at the Austrian festivities?" "It has been spoken of."
She said to me, 'At eleven o'clock I will expect you and the Baron von Trenck in my room. That is certainly explicit as it appears to me, and needs no explanation. Lend me your arm." With a heavy sigh, Trenck gave the required assistance, and then sprang lightly into the room. "Give me your hand, and follow cautiously," said Pollnitz.
"Woe to him upon whom his anger falls to-day!" A storm-cloud did indeed rest upon the brow of the king; his eye looked fierce and dangerous. The regiment stood in line, the king drew up in front; suddenly he paused, his face grew black his eye had found an object for destruction. "Lieutenant Trenck," said he, in a loud and threatening tone, "you have this moment arrived, you are again too late.
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