. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. ever, was the limit of the powers of the Bis-marcks. The Electoral Prince had taken his measures only toowell. There now ensued very active and weighty negotiationsas to the compensation to be given for Burgstall. This was noteasily to be found, and these negotiations prove, as also their finalresult, that the Bismarcks agreed to the. surrender of Burgstallout of respect to the Prince, and from an apprehension of settingthemselves in actual hostility to the authorities as the result ofany further refusal. The representatives of the elder race—Hen
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. ever, was the limit of the powers of the Bis-marcks. The Electoral Prince had taken his measures only toowell. There now ensued very active and weighty negotiationsas to the compensation to be given for Burgstall. This was noteasily to be found, and these negotiations prove, as also their finalresult, that the Bismarcks agreed to the. surrender of Burgstallout of respect to the Prince, and from an apprehension of settingthemselves in actual hostility to the authorities as the result ofany further refusal. The representatives of the elder race—Henry and Frederick—first assented, and took for their shares in Burgstall the Abbeyof Crevese, a foundation of Benedictine nuns. The income ofthis property, with all its appurtenances, did not amount by farto those enjoyed by the brothers in Burgstall; but no better es-tate could be found, and the Prince therefore commanded thepayment of considerable sums in satisfaction—not, however, ex-ceeding the moderate amount of two thousand THE PERMUTATION COMPLETED. 55 The ladies of the house of Bismarck seemed even more discon-solate at the loss of Burgstall than the men. To terminate theirlamentations, the Prince allowed each of them the sum of onehundred gulden. The representatives of the younger branch—Jobst and Georgevon Bismarck—were still more unfortunate. They hesitated
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