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it, even if spoken aloud. She failed not, how- 
j ever, to interpret it in her own manner. 
“Ah, Heinrich! ah, dear baron!” she cried with, 
an agony more intense than ever; “ah! do not— 
do not—do not! I am sure you cannot be so 
cruel. Ah, dear sweet Heinrich, of whom I was 
so fond!” 
Even at that moment, Heinrich, who hated 
every thing French in general, and Louise in 
particular for her especial impertinence toward 
him and his brother Germans ii\ the service of 
the princess, could not refrain from giving a 
most dissentient grunt. 
“Dear Heinrich! dear Monsieur le Baron! do 
not be so cruel. I know what you are whisper¬ 
ing about: I know you are going to throw me 
to the wolves, that you may get off while they 
are eating me. Oh, mon Dieu! mon Dieu!” 
Adelaide endeavored to edge in a word, but 
in vain. 
“Oh! dear Monsieur le Baron, remember what 
became of the wicked prince who did the same 
' to his courier: he was torn by his own dogs 
for it. Remember the wicked woman who threw 
her children: she was boiled alive for it. Oh! 
dear Mr. Heinrich, dear Monsieur le Baron— 
oh! oh! oh!” 
[Louise in her agony remembered two stories, 
one German and one French. The German 
story is, that some Polish prince, traveling 
through a forest, was pursued by wolves; and 
that a faithful heyduck devoted himself to save 
his master's life by descending from the carriage, 
and making with his sabre a courageous fight 
against them as long as he could. He knew 
that he sacrificed himself, but he did it without 
a second thought, in order that, by delaying 
them first by whatever opposition he could offer, 
and then by the time it would take them to de¬ 
vour his body, his master might escape. His 
devotion was successful, and the grateful master, 
according to our version, provided for his 
family, and heaped his memory with honors. A 
different version is. that the selfish prince who 
consented to the sacrifice of so faithful a serv¬ 
ant, reaped his reward, by being torn to pieces 
on entering his own gate by his dogs, who did 
not know him in the absence of his attendant, 
under whose immediate care they had been 
placed. The other story is, I fear, true: it is 
that of a wretched mother, who with her three 
children were overtaken by wolves somewhere 
in the east of France, when, to save her own life, 
she flung away the children one by one to be 
eaten. The wolves pursued her to the gates of 
a neighboring town, which was opened to save 
her; but when she told her story, the populace, 
indignant at the unnatural conduct of this worse 
than Medea, stoned her to death in the market¬ 
place. As a story never loses by the telling, it 
is currently said that they put her into a caldron 
and boiled her alive.] 
We had not time to pay any attention to the 
lament of the unfortunate suivante, for the 
wolves were by this time quite close upon the 
carriage. Fast they came as a dark cloud, 
scouring with inconceivable rapidity over the 
snow. Their dreadful howls reverberated 
through the forest, waking its every echo. We 
could see their flaming eyes, their snorting 
nostrils, their mouths and tongues red and drip¬ 
ping with the fresh blood of their mangled com¬ 
panions, Another moment and they would be 
upon us. The moment came, and there they 
were. 
“Oh! ” cried Heinrich, “keep them off one 
minute—one single minute, and we are at the 
hunting-lodge. “O that the horses may hold 
out!” 
The poor animals exerted their last efforts. 
If we had been pressed too closely by the 
wolves, no other chance remained but to sacrifice 
them, and make our way as best we could to the 
lodge, while our assailants were fighting around 
the spoil. But there was no need; one wolf only 
succeeded in reaching the window of the voiture, 
and him I instantly shot with my fusil. Another 
was making the attempt; but I knocked him on 
the head with the butt end, and at least stunned 
him. Before a third could come up, the horses 
had made some desperate plunges forward, and 
the welcome lodge was gained. Heinrich jumped 
down at once, loudly calling me to follow him. 
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