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Otto and Gondremark and Ratafia, and the state itself, hung light in her balances, as light as dust; her little finger laid in either scale would set all flying: and she hugged herself upon her huge preponderance, and then laughed aloud to think how giddily it might be used. The vertigo of omnipotence, the disease of Cæsars, shook her reason.
Temper, scorn, disgust, all the more acrid feelings, became her like jewels; and she now looked her best. "Pray God they quarrel," thought Gondremark. "The damned minx may fail me yet, unless they quarrel. It is time to let him in. Zz fight, dogs!" Consequent on these reflections, he bent a stiff knee, and chivalrously kissed the Princess's hand.
"The commonplace injustice of a by-word," Otto cried. "The partiality of sex. She is a demirep; what then is Gondremark? Were she a man " "It would be all one," retorted Gotthold roughly. "When I see a man, come to years of wisdom, who speaks in double-meanings and is the braggart of his vices, I spit on the other side.
"It would appear so," she said, with a flash of her occasional repugnance to the man; and then after a pause, "Herr von Gondremark," she added, "I recoil from this extremity." "I share your Highness's repugnance," answered he. "But what would you have? We are defenceless else." "I see it, but this is sudden. It is a public crime," she said, nodding at him with a sort of horror.
There will follow upon this some manifest judgment which, though I am old, I may survive to see." "Good man, you are in the wrong about Gondremark," said Fritz, showing a greatly increased animation; "but for all the rest, you speak the God's truth like a good patriot. As for the Prince, if he would take and strangle his wife, I would forgive him yet."
'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.
In the midst of this sat the great Baron Gondremark in his shirt-sleeves, his business for that day fairly at an end, and the hour arrived for relaxation. His expression, his very nature, seemed to have undergone a fundamental change. Gondremark at home appeared the very antipode of Gondremark on duty.
The Chancellor stammered. 'Your Highness will perhaps find the reason in these documents, said Gotthold, pointing with the tail of his pen. Otto thanked his cousin with a look. 'Give them to me, he said, addressing the Chancellor. But that gentleman visibly hesitated to obey. 'Baron von Gondremark, he said, 'has made the affair his own.
'For there is one thing certain: that this Gondremark has one foot in the Court backstairs, and the other in the Masons' lodges. He gives himself out, sir, for what nowadays they call a patriot: a man from East Prussia! 'Give himself out! cried Fritz. 'He is! He is to lay by his title as soon as the Republic is declared; I heard it in a speech.
Be pitiful to the poor young man; affect an interest in his hunting; be weary of politics; find in his society, as it were, a grateful repose from dry considerations. Does my Princess authorise the line of battle?" "Well, that is a trifle," answered Seraphina. "The council there is the point." "The council?" cried Gondremark. "Permit me, madam."
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