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Identifier: lifeofbismarckpr00hese (find matches)
Title: The life of Bismarck, private and political;
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Hesekiel, George, 1818-1874. (from old catalog) MacKenzie, Kenneth Robert Henderson, (from old catalog) tr
Subjects: Bismarck, Otto, fürst von, 1815-1898. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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onshine,and the rosy twilight, torches flitting through the forest—thewhole might have figured unchanged as a great scene of effect ina romantic opera. Next to me sat the venerable Archbishop ofGran, the Primate of Hungary, in a black silk talar with a redcape; on the other a very charming and elegant cavalry general.You see that the picture was a variegated one, rich in contrasts.Then we drove home in the moonshine by torchlight. TellFrau von V. that her brother was a most delightful man, as Icould not but expect from her two sisters whom I already knew.I had just received a telegraphic dispatch from Berlin; it con-tained only four letters—Nein (No!). A word full of signifi-cance. I was told to-day of the storm of the castle three yearsago by the insurgents ; at this the brave General Hentzi and thewhole garrison, after a wonderfully courageous resistance, werecut down. The black stains upon my floor are partly the resultof fire, and where I am writing bursting grenades were then
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^ §11Warn PiiP £ T-,,f ^;;-; bismarcks only sister. (Frau von Arnim.) JOURNEY INTO HUNGARY. 241 dancing, and the fight went on over smoking ruins. It has onlybeen restored a few weeks ago, before the arrival of the Emperor.It is very quiet and peaceful up here now. I hear nothing butthe ticking of a clock, and the sound of distant carriage-wheelsbelow. May angels watch over thee—a bearskin-capped grena-dier does so with me—I can see six inches of his bayonet at acouple of arms length from me above the window-sill, and thereflection of a foot. He stands on the terrace by the Danube,and is probably thinking of his Nanny. Szolnok, 27th June, 1852.In your atlases you will find a map of Hungary, and on this ariver Theiss, and, if you follow up the source towards Szegedin, aplace named Szolnok. Yesterday I went by railway from Pesthto Alberti-Josa, where a Prince W. lies in garrison. He is mar-ried to a Princess M. I paid him a visit in order to inform of the state of his health. This

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