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'The Prince will not attend the council, replied Seraphina, with a momentary blush. 'The despatches, Herr Cancellarius? There is one for Gerolstein? A secretary brought a paper. 'Here, madam, said Greisengesang. 'Shall I read it? 'We are all familiar with its terms, replied Gondremark. 'Your Highness approves? 'Unhesitatingly, said Seraphina.
Thither, upon the thought, she furiously drove, passing Gondremark at the entrance to the palace avenue, but feigning not to observe him; and as Kleinbrunn was seven good miles away, and in the bottom of a narrow dell, she passed the night without any rumour of the outbreak reaching her; and the glow of the conflagration was concealed by intervening hills.
"Colonel Gordon," said the Prince, "oblige me so far, and set me right with Herr von Hohenstockwitz." "Gentlemen," said the Colonel, "you are both arrested on the same warrant in the name of the Princess Seraphina, acting regent, countersigned by Prime Minister Freiherr von Gondremark, and dated the day before yesterday, the twelfth. I reveal to you the secrets of the prison-house," he added.
"What, do you call it that?" cried another, laughing. "Ay that's what they call it," returned the Grünewalder; and he broke into a song, which the rest, as people well acquainted with the words and air, instantly took up in chorus. Her Serene Highness Amalia Seraphina, Princess of Grünewald, was the heroine, Gondremark the hero of this ballad. Shame hissed in Otto's ears.
"My Princess," he said, "must now dismiss her servant. I have much to arrange against the hour of council." "Go," she said, and rose. And as Gondremark tripped out of a private door, she touched a bell, and gave the order to admit the Prince. With what a world of excellent intentions Otto entered his wife's cabinet! how fatherly, how tender! how morally affecting were the words he had prepared!
'To-day of all days? 'The marplot, madam, has the instinct of his nature, returned Gondremark. 'But you exaggerate the peril. Think, madam, how far we have prospered, and against what odds! Shall a Featherhead? but no! And he blew upon his fingers lightly with a laugh. 'Featherhead, she replied, 'is still the Prince of Grunewald.
"The Prince will not attend the council," replied Seraphina, with a momentary blush. "The despatches, Herr Cancellarius? There is one for Gerolstein?" A secretary brought a paper. "Here, madam," said Greisengesang. "Shall I read it?" "We are all familiar with its terms," replied Gondremark. "Your Highness approves?" "Unhesitatingly," said Seraphina.
"Are you true to me? are you false? Look in your heart and answer: it is your heart I want to know." "It has come," thought Gondremark. "You, madam!" he cried, starting back with fear, you would have said, and yet a timid joy. "You! yourself, you bid me look into my heart?"
'It may then be held as read, concluded the Baron. 'Will your Highness sign? The Princess did so; Gondremark, Eisenthal, and one of the non- combatants followed suit; and the paper was then passed across the table to the librarian. He proceeded leisurely to read. 'We have no time to spare, Herr Doctor, cried the Baron brutally.
But the body politic is seriously diseased; republicanism, socialism, many disintegrating ideas are abroad; circle within circle, a really formidable organisation has grown up about your Highness's throne." "I have heard of it, Herr von Gondremark," put in the Prince; "but I have reason to be aware that yours is the more authoritative information."
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