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"Oh," said Landgraf Ludwig, "if that is all the castle needs, it can soon have them." "How soon?" said the Emperor, mockingly. "In the space of three days," answered his brother-in-law. "That could only be possible with the aid of the devil," said Barbarossa, "otherwise it could not be done." "Wait and see for yourself," said the Landgraf.
Conrad, younger brother of the Landgraf of Thuringen, which Prince lived chiefly in the Wartburg, romantic old Hill-Castle, now a Weimar-Eisenach property and show-place, then an abode of very earnest people, was probably a child-in-arms, in that same Wartburg, while Richard Coeur-de-Lion was getting home from Palestine and into troubles by the road: this will date Conrad for us.
A spectacle of pity to Landgraf Wilhelm, to King Friedrich, and serious on-lookers; and perhaps not of pity only, but of "pity and fear" to some of them! sullen Austria taking its sweet revenges, in this fashion.
No Prince stood up as beseemed: or only one, and he not a great one; Landgraf Wilhelm of Hessen, who, and his brave Widow after him, seemed always to know what hour it was.
There is a curious correspondence preserved in the Bodleian library, consisting of autograph letters which passed between Buchels, the elector's librarian at Dusseldorf, and Zamboni, the resident at the court of Great Britain for the Landgraf of Hessen Darmstadt. In appearance the correspondence is innocent enough: Zamboni has manuscripts for sale on behalf of persons abroad.
The Emperor was much astonished, and called out: "Many thanks, brother-in-law, for your lesson; stronger walls I have never seen, nor better fitted together." "Rough stones they may some of them be," said the Landgraf, "yet I can rely on them, as you see."
Talent such as yours is a responsibility; you must meet that responsibility." The dictionary of the English language was an inexhaustible quarry, from which the Canon had hewn and fashioned for himself a great reputation. "You must gom and blay to me at Schlachsenberg," said the kindly-faced Landgraf, whom the world adored and thwarted in about equal proportions.
On the morrow, July 15th, Carteret, instead of signing, as expected, has to purpose a fortnight's delay till he consult in England! Absolutely would not and could not sign, till a Courier to England went and returned. To Landgraf Wilhelm's, to Klinggraf's and the Kaiser's very great surprise, disappointment and suspicion.
Protestant neighbors, Landgraf Moritz of Hessen-Cassel at their head, intervene in tremulous haste, in the Cleve-Julich affair: "Peace, O friends! Some bargain; peaceable joint-possession; any temporary bargain, till we see! Can two Protestants fall to slashing one another, in such an aspect of the Reich and its Jesuitries?"
Was Monseigneur aware that this Elbingerode, with a patch of territory round it, is Hanoverian ground; one of those distracted patches or ragged outskirts frequent in the German map? Prussia is not yet, and Hessen-Cassel has ceased to be. Undoubtedly Hanoverian! Apparently the Landgraf and Monseigneur had not thought of that. But Munchhausen of Hanover, spies informing him, had.
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