The gossip's week . COUNT DALBERG AND HIS COUNT DALBERG AND HIS SON. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed! r t. ° ° Jeremiah. Oh, father, what a hell of witchcraft liesIn the small orb of one particular tear ! Passionate Pilgrim. Is there no Dalberg here? called out the em-peror. It is an old usage that, at the crowning of thekaiser, he who is the representative of that ancienthouse should be thus summoned. There was a Dalberg there, and he answeredboldly; and there was another Dalberg, the son ofthat same lofty one who, while the herald blew aproud blast and a
The gossip's week . COUNT DALBERG AND HIS COUNT DALBERG AND HIS SON. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed! r t. ° ° Jeremiah. Oh, father, what a hell of witchcraft liesIn the small orb of one particular tear ! Passionate Pilgrim. Is there no Dalberg here? called out the em-peror. It is an old usage that, at the crowning of thekaiser, he who is the representative of that ancienthouse should be thus summoned. There was a Dalberg there, and he answeredboldly; and there was another Dalberg, the son ofthat same lofty one who, while the herald blew aproud blast and a hundred imperial banners floatedin the air, sat by the bed-side of a woman whowas dying, and wiped the cold dew from her fore-head, and held her hand within his, and prayed 288 COUNT DALBERG AND HIS SON. aloud. The bells tolled ; he thought they were death-bells, but they rang out for joy that an emperor was crowned. The accession of a new ruler always brings joy with it; even those whose happiness it can no wayinfluence rejoice. The streets
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