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diff --git a/40567-h/40567-h.htm b/40567-h/40567-h.htm index c143f0c..f407712 100644 --- a/40567-h/40567-h.htm +++ b/40567-h/40567-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Mercenary, by W. J. Eccott. @@ -112,46 +112,7 @@ table {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;} </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mercenary, by W. J. Eccott - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Mercenary - A Tale of The Thirty Years' War - -Author: W. J. Eccott - -Release Date: August 23, 2012 [EBook #40567] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MERCENARY *** - - - - -Produced by Sandra Eder, sp1nd and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40567 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 381px;"> <img src="images/front_cover.jpg" width="381" height="600" alt="" /> @@ -239,7 +200,7 @@ Edinburgh and London<br /> <tr><td class="r">CHAP.</td><td></td><td class="r">PAGE</td></tr> <tr><td class="r">I.</td><td>IN SEARCH OF BOOTY</td><td class="r"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="r">II.</td><td>NIGEL COLLECTS HIS DUES</td><td class="r"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr> -<tr><td class="r">III.</td><td>TILLY, COUNT OF TZERCLAËS</td><td class="r"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="r">III.</td><td>TILLY, COUNT OF TZERCLAËS</td><td class="r"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="r">IV.</td><td>ON THE ROAD TO ERFURT</td><td class="r"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="r">V.</td><td>TWO OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH</td><td class="r"><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="r">VI.</td><td>AT THE CASTLE OF HRADSCHIN</td><td class="r"><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> @@ -646,7 +607,7 @@ of the prisoners!"</p> <p>"Now, madame! Yours!"</p> -<p>"Ottilie of Thüringen!" She had risen to make the +<p>"Ottilie of Thüringen!" She had risen to make the reply, and again their eyes met in silent combat.</p> <p>"It would be as well, your Highness, if you carried @@ -654,7 +615,7 @@ your friend to another room! What is her name and condition?"</p> <p>"Elspeth Reinheit, daughter of Andreas Reinheit, -farmer, of Eisenach in Thüringen!"</p> +farmer, of Eisenach in Thüringen!"</p> <p>Then she motioned to the young pastor, who came forward with an air of defiance which sat ill upon him, @@ -724,7 +685,7 @@ with him from the beginning of the episode, "you can search the house for yourselves. Touch nothing of that which belongs to the ladies who were here; nor load yourselves with that which is heavy to carry and of no -certain worth. Say to the Lady Ottilie of Thüringen that +certain worth. Say to the Lady Ottilie of Thüringen that I crave her presence here in a quarter of an hour. The other two of you remain on guard without."</p> @@ -757,10 +718,10 @@ is for princesses."</p> in these countries are bewildering. What would you be called?"</p> -<p>"In Thüringen I am styled plainly, madame!"</p> +<p>"In Thüringen I am styled plainly, madame!"</p> <p>"Madame, be it then! Are you the daughter of the -Landgrave of Thüringen?"</p> +Landgrave of Thüringen?"</p> <p>"In what way does that concern one of Tilly's captains of musketeers? I go where I choose, and own no man @@ -878,9 +839,9 @@ less brave than Tilly, but a genius for organising armies, a good Catholic, but no fanatic. It was like a shrill summons to Nigel to hear that Wallenstein might take the field again. But how could this proud damsel of -Thüringen know? Who was she?</p> +Thüringen know? Who was she?</p> -<p>To be the daughter of the Landgrave of Thüringen was +<p>To be the daughter of the Landgrave of Thüringen was to be almost the daughter of a prince. She had not admitted it, but that she came of very noble birth he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span> was sure. She must be steeped in Lutheranism to be in @@ -914,7 +875,7 @@ look round and followed.</p> beyond the ramparts and the fosses.</p> <p>When Nigel had with infinite trouble found them -privacy and housing for the night, the lady of Thüringen +privacy and housing for the night, the lady of Thüringen responded graciously enough to his "good night!" adding, "I am glad my dagger failed me, Sir Captain. You are too courteous to die by a woman's hand."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> @@ -924,13 +885,13 @@ too courteous to die by a woman's hand."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="p <h2><a name="CHAPTER_III" id="CHAPTER_III">CHAPTER III.</a></h2> -<h3>TILLY, COUNT OF TZERCLAËS.</h3> +<h3>TILLY, COUNT OF TZERCLAËS.</h3> <p><span class="sc">"So</span>, sir, you would leave me for Wallenstein!" said the dry, wiry old man with the short grey beard resting on a charger of ruff, looking keenly out of a pair of very sharp -eyes, which were the eyes of General Tilly, Count of Tzerclaës. +eyes, which were the eyes of General Tilly, Count of Tzerclaës. "What in thunder made you think Wallenstein was in favour again?"</p> @@ -957,7 +918,7 @@ I brought you."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]< <p>"Who was she, captain?"</p> -<p>"She gave herself out to be the Lady Ottilie of Thüringen! +<p>"She gave herself out to be the Lady Ottilie of Thüringen! She is of a surety highly-born. But I didn't know what to make of her. She is not given to much speech, and what there is is tart in flavour. Would she by chance @@ -996,7 +957,7 @@ with a movement that gave him a quizzical air, and a slightly amused look crept into his face. He rose and bowed politely—</p> -<p>"The Lady Ottilie of Thüringen?"</p> +<p>"The Lady Ottilie of Thüringen?"</p> <p>A look flashed from her eyes to Count Tilly's as she bowed in return.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> @@ -1009,7 +970,7 @@ that of a lady I once met at the court of Vienna," said Count Tilly, as if it were a matter of no moment.</p> <p>"Indeed!" she said unmovedly. "At the present -moment I am seeking a safe-conduct to Thüringen, for +moment I am seeking a safe-conduct to Thüringen, for myself and two persons in whom I am interested."</p> <p>"To what part?"</p> @@ -1040,7 +1001,7 @@ start at once?"</p> your party as far as Erfurt. After that you must make your own plans!"</p> -<p>The Lady Ottilie von Thüringen did not look overjoyed +<p>The Lady Ottilie von Thüringen did not look overjoyed at the news. She stole a glance at the captain, who on his side evinced no rejoicing, and then at the general. One might have supposed that she suspected some design @@ -1116,8 +1077,8 @@ fact provided thirty thousand for the war of '26. Nigel Charteris had marched with him as a mere subaltern to the crushing defeat of Mansfeld at Dessau on the Elbe, had joined in the resistless pursuit through Silesia, -through Mähren into Hungary, where Mansfeld was -striving to unite with Bethlem Gabor of Siebenbürgen, +through Mähren into Hungary, where Mansfeld was +striving to unite with Bethlem Gabor of Siebenbürgen, most turbulent of Electors. Nigel had seen the army of thirty thousand grow into seventy thousand, and the Emperor able to dictate in the affairs of Europe. There @@ -1150,7 +1111,7 @@ of Elspeth Reinheit; the other, an older, slightly-wizened woman of dark complexion, with a certain air about her of one accustomed to the chambers of great ladies, of one above the common herd of waiting women, and as plainly -the attendant of Ottilie of Thüringen. The two had probably +the attendant of Ottilie of Thüringen. The two had probably been hidden in some garret of the house in Magdeburg, and followed their mistresses, having no other goal to make for, to the outskirts of the camp. The Saxon girl @@ -1199,7 +1160,7 @@ an old horse out of breath.</p> and the sun rises early over the German lands in May, and shines hotly towards noon on the great plain. There was little or no shelter, but horses and men, even the -pastor, though he came from the pine forests of Thüringen, +pastor, though he came from the pine forests of Thüringen, thought little of the heat and the dust. To the men it was a holiday jaunt after the military turmoils of the past two months. To the pastor it was a return to his @@ -1211,7 +1172,7 @@ he would inflame the whole forest with it! The fires, the murders, the even blacker horrors of the sack of Magdeburg, should be caught up into the trumpet of his prophecy and belched forth in his own sonorous, if -not altogether silvery voice, till every valley of Thüringen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +not altogether silvery voice, till every valley of Thüringen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> and every hamlet in the hills rang with the fame and the shame of the Edict. He conceived himself as a brand plucked from a literal burning. As he rode, innumerable @@ -1261,7 +1222,7 @@ beside her and said a few words, but soon dropped behind again. She could make nothing of him. He did not even ask after her wound.</p> -<p>And "dark Ottilie" of Thüringen? The beauty of the +<p>And "dark Ottilie" of Thüringen? The beauty of the morning set her pulses thrilling, and chanted in her ears a song of freedom. She knew well that she was not free, that she was playing the rebel against all orthodoxy of @@ -1298,7 +1259,7 @@ and said—</p> you are not too fatigued, we shall go on to Sangershausen." Then he looked across to Elspeth and a look of friendliness came into his eyes. "How is your wound to-day, -Fräulein?"</p> +Fräulein?"</p> <p>"Better! Much better, captain!" Elspeth had another access of blushes.</p> @@ -1413,7 +1374,7 @@ her integrity.</p> <p>No doubt Pastor Rad would have been still more surprised had he known that the highly-born sympathiser—he was not sure enough of her spiritual leanings to call -her adherent,—Ottilie of Thüringen, was at this moment +her adherent,—Ottilie of Thüringen, was at this moment questioning Elspeth on that very matter.</p> <p>"Dearest Elspeth, you have met yonder captain before @@ -1518,7 +1479,7 @@ enough to take in all the troopers as well as their horses: a fortunate thing, since, at the late hour it was, to have made any endeavour to quarter them on the inhabitants would have been a possible cause of tumult. They were -already sufficiently near to Thüringen, a Protestant state +already sufficiently near to Thüringen, a Protestant state in the main, for Protestant feeling to be uppermost. Some news of the vengeance executed on Protestant Magdeburg would have preceded the travellers even at this remote @@ -1620,7 +1581,7 @@ women with broad foreheads and blue-grey or dark-brown eyes, looking boldly out upon a world that dared not asperse them.</p> -<p>In Ottilie von Thüringen he had recognised at a glance +<p>In Ottilie von Thüringen he had recognised at a glance one of their peers, with less of their frankness, with more of their pride of race, a woman of rare beauty, mysterious, tangible yet intangible. For the first time in his prime of @@ -1709,7 +1670,7 @@ ago?"</p> not point me to the Prediger Strasse?"</p> <p>"It is useless to pretend! You are she who calls herself -Ottilie of Thüringen! And you are of the Holy +Ottilie of Thüringen! And you are of the Holy Catholic faith! I am Nigel Charteris!"</p> <p>"Had the night been lighter," she said in a tone of @@ -1784,7 +1745,7 @@ there in the back windows of the houses that abutted on the water. Their gaze could only penetrate a little way along the dark space between the houses. A few stars reflected themselves in the water at their feet. The Lady -Ottilie of Thüringen was in a restless mood, in that mood +Ottilie of Thüringen was in a restless mood, in that mood when a woman wants everything and nothing, when she is eager to reveal and careful to hide everything but her eagerness. To an older man perhaps there would have @@ -1836,10 +1797,10 @@ Waldstein, if I guess rightly?" Nigel asked.</p> <p>"Sir!" She flashed upon him, turning towards the pathway. "Go you and seek your Wallenstein! What -think you that Ottilie von Thüringen can have in +think you that Ottilie von Thüringen can have in common with that cold seeker after power, with him who would use the Habsburgs for a stepping-stone, and -play the Cæsar?"</p> +play the Cæsar?"</p> <p>Nigel was silent. He was confident that he had struck the keynote of her meditation, but refrained from placing @@ -1912,7 +1873,7 @@ fodder.</p> of Lutheran spirit. Erfurt, for all it had nursed Luther out of monkhood into flat heresy, was still Catholic. Rudolfstadt was towards the outskirts of the -Thüringer Wald and a mere hamlet, though it bore a +Thüringer Wald and a mere hamlet, though it bore a kingly name. The other villages that lay between it and Plauen were inconsiderable, and Nigel did not let his men linger when traversing them. It was quite @@ -2106,7 +2067,7 @@ looked upward and the ruddy light from a neighbouring torch fell upon her face for a mere instant, but it was long enough. Nigel drew his cloak about him with a shiver. The woman appeared to have the eyes and mouth of -Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> +Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> <p>He was sure it was not she. She had started for Gotha. He had seen her in the coach, and at the head of @@ -3095,7 +3056,7 @@ Wallenstein.</p> <p>Nigel leaped up, spurred by his astonishment, even in opposition to the awe which the moment enjoined upon -him, exclaiming "Ottilie von Thüringen!"</p> +him, exclaiming "Ottilie von Thüringen!"</p> <p>And Wallenstein, as if Nigel had not been there, still in his seat, but filled with amaze, exclaimed under his @@ -3168,7 +3129,7 @@ excess of courtesy bade him pack up his belongings.</p> <p>"And your companions?"</p> -<p>"They rest in Eger, being bound for Gräslitz. I know +<p>"They rest in Eger, being bound for Gräslitz. I know them not. We did but join company for protection."</p> <p>"At what inn did they rest?"</p> @@ -3195,7 +3156,7 @@ of last night, he could make nothing of it. His tendency was to disbelieve, only his respect for Wallen<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span>stein's powers of thought diminished his disbelief to something approaching mere doubt. The one thing that stood -out was the vision of Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> +out was the vision of Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> <p>Surely it was her "wraith." And if it had by chance been that of some familiar friend in Scotland, or of some @@ -3762,7 +3723,7 @@ are equal with your own in the right to be elected to the empire."</p> <p>"There are six electors! There are three archbishops—Mainz, -Köln, Trier—two are Protestants, the Palatine, +Köln, Trier—two are Protestants, the Palatine, the Saxon,... you cannot mean the Wittelsbacher!" The disgust that she felt showed itself unmistakably.</p> @@ -3920,7 +3881,7 @@ his way in any of the armies of Europe, but he was not by nature a mercenary. Dismissal would be the heaviest punishment of all. And then his thoughts, tired of dwelling on these painful themes, flew away to Erfurt and -to Ottilie von Thüringen, that mysterious high-born lady<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> +to Ottilie von Thüringen, that mysterious high-born lady<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span> whose history was entwined with his own and Wallenstein's.</p> <p>He had laughed scornfully as he rode to Vienna, thinking @@ -3982,7 +3943,7 @@ time.</p> <p>The servant led away Sergeant Blick, not unwilling, to the buttery.</p> -<p>The pages conducted Nigel to his <em>salle à manger</em>, and +<p>The pages conducted Nigel to his <em>salle à manger</em>, and furnished not only the needful flagon of Tokay, but a substantial breakfast of smoked ham and sausages, a cold capon and dried fish. By the time he had finished he @@ -4028,7 +3989,7 @@ She walks here a little while most mornings."</p> Stephanie came, and Nigel and the pages awaited her approach. She came with no hurried pace, and as she came Nigel grew pale and red by turns, for here, if any -one, was Ottilie von Thüringen, gloriously apparelled, her +one, was Ottilie von Thüringen, gloriously apparelled, her hair framing her face in a multitude of curling locks of raven hues, rows of pearls about her neck, suspending against the whiteness of her throat a jewelled dragon.</p> @@ -4107,7 +4068,7 @@ perfect.</p> <p>"Your Highness is surely my good angel," he said gratefully, forgetting for the moment the old Ottilie von -Thüringen in the new and glorious Archduchess Stephanie. +Thüringen in the new and glorious Archduchess Stephanie. "This that Wallenstein has sent me will justify my coming hither. Without it I had been dubbed, and rightly, a blundering knave, for your Highness should know I @@ -4151,7 +4112,7 @@ bent upon his errand, he could not have told why.</p> officer of the household announced in a loud voice—</p> <p>"Sire! The noble and high-born Captain Nigel -Charteris with despatches from Tilly, Count of Tzerclaës!"</p> +Charteris with despatches from Tilly, Count of Tzerclaës!"</p> <p>Nigel advanced, preceded by the gentleman-in-waiting, bowed three times as he did so, following the example @@ -4186,7 +4147,7 @@ officers of the council who sat at the table.</p> <p>Nigel could not help noticing the slenderness of his hands and the length of the tapering fingers, which were beyond the common measure of men's hands, and reminded -him of the hands of Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> +him of the hands of Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> <p>From the Emperor his gaze fell upon a familiar figure that of a man who sat back from the table, as if to give @@ -4723,7 +4684,7 @@ alone.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Pag <p><span class="sc">That</span> evening Nigel was not left to eat his meal in the -little <em>salle à manger</em> adjoining his bedchamber, but was +little <em>salle à manger</em> adjoining his bedchamber, but was invited by the officers of the guard to join them, a compliment that was worth the paying, seeing that the officers of the guard were drawn from the oldest families @@ -4908,7 +4869,7 @@ as pleasant as the issue was successful."</p> <p>As Nigel had bent to kiss the long slender fingers that were so like the Emperor's, he seemed to see again those -of Ottilie von Thüringen binding up the wound of Elspeth +of Ottilie von Thüringen binding up the wound of Elspeth Reinheit. He answered her—</p> <p>"The journey was not so perilous, your Highness, as @@ -5015,11 +4976,11 @@ a poisonous and rebellious nature."</p> <p>"Such as, sire?" a staid and solemn-faced minister of state inquired.</p> -<p>"Ambition, my Lord! It brought Cæsar to the ground, -and Cæsar was a greater man. When Wallenstein, then +<p>"Ambition, my Lord! It brought Cæsar to the ground, +and Cæsar was a greater man. When Wallenstein, then a rich Bohemian landlord, discovered that he had the genius of organising an army, he began to think he had -discovered in himself another Cæsar. He thought that +discovered in himself another Cæsar. He thought that to command a great army, to find its food and pay, was absolute power. He forgot that that consent of the Emperor, which alone had made it possible, was the real @@ -5097,7 +5058,7 @@ between them."</p> <p>"With a few reinforcements, Tilly and Pappenheim should be able to stay his march," said Maximilian.</p> -<p>To which Wallenstein said nothing. His <em>rôle</em> was the +<p>To which Wallenstein said nothing. His <em>rôle</em> was the disinterested friend, the wealthy noble to whom war was of no moment.</p> @@ -5360,7 +5321,7 @@ the dogs in Germany bayed at you and the Emperor sent an embassy—it was that in fact—to beg you to lay down the power, the stupendous power, you wielded. Then, oh the direful days they were! I hoped, I feared. I dreaded -and longed to hear that, like Cæsar of old, you were crossing +and longed to hear that, like Cæsar of old, you were crossing the Rubicon and were marching on the capital."</p> <p>Wallenstein heaved a mighty sigh.</p> @@ -5493,7 +5454,7 @@ of the Emperor, who, owing to a very real lameness, acquired in his subaltern days, had been obliged to confine his military excursions within the narrow limits of Vienna or Ratisbon. But he had stored up a profound knowledge -of Cæsar's 'Commentaries,' and was very well acquainted +of Cæsar's 'Commentaries,' and was very well acquainted with the theory of war as it was then understood.</p> <p>It was the Emperor, usually in consort with the experienced @@ -5508,7 +5469,7 @@ and officers.</p> <p>Before this sage professional committee Nigel was summoned.</p> -<p>"You have learned the manège, colonel?" was the +<p>"You have learned the manège, colonel?" was the abrupt inquiry of the oldest officer.</p> <p>"What is the complete equipment of a trooper?" was @@ -5616,7 +5577,7 @@ awaiting the settlement of his destiny. There were at least two scars on his face, which were an abiding proof that he had faced both pike and sword, and his complexion, originally fair (he was a North German from -Münster), had been tanned and weather-beaten. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span> +Münster), had been tanned and weather-beaten. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span> light-blue eyes, somewhat hard in the glint, were full of resolution and vigour, if the cheeks and the mouth did smack somewhat of the beer-can, as did the great girth of @@ -5669,7 +5630,7 @@ round his neck, something, in his opinion, stolen from some dangerously high place.</p> <p>Again he asked himself, "Who is Ottilie von -Thüringen?"</p> +Thüringen?"</p> <p>"By Saint Andrew!" he exclaimed as some one entered.</p> @@ -5722,7 +5683,7 @@ free companions for a few weeks, maybe months, and then join Tilly!"</p> <p>"Listen!" said Nigel. "We have to cross Southern -Bohemia, the Upper Palatinate, enter Würzburg, then +Bohemia, the Upper Palatinate, enter Würzburg, then Hesse Cassel, to frighten the Landgrave, ride eastward to the Elbe, and find Gustavus. Having satisfied ourselves of the direction of his march, we are to hang on to the @@ -5736,7 +5697,7 @@ the trees," said Hildebrand.</p> <p>"Make us the most serviceable regiment of cavalry in the whole army," Nigel consoled. "You'll be as thin as -a pikestaff and as hard! No Tokay in the Thüringerwald!"</p> +a pikestaff and as hard! No Tokay in the Thüringerwald!"</p> <p>"The beer might be worse!" rejoined Hildebrand. "I've tasted it."</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span></p> @@ -5917,7 +5878,7 @@ her red full lips parted in a smile.</p> <p>Her beauty, intensified by the moonlight, and suffused with something more of air and sky, her ever astonishing -resemblance to the strange Ottilie von Thüringen, together +resemblance to the strange Ottilie von Thüringen, together took Nigel by storm. The shock of it thrilled him. No Wallenstein of forty-eight, wrapped securely in the husk of his own fortunes, but a living man with all the ripe @@ -6058,7 +6019,7 @@ Magdeburg.</p> <hr class="tb" /> -<p>"I wonder whether it was my cousin Ottilie von Thüringen," +<p>"I wonder whether it was my cousin Ottilie von Thüringen," she said. "She is suspected of strong sympathies for the Lutherans."</p> @@ -6372,7 +6333,7 @@ as the chain of Bishoprics was called by the untaught lewd of the Protestants. The next stage was Fulda, the seat of the Abbot of St Boniface, across the Bavarian border, and before him lay on one side the westernmost<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span> -strip of the Thüringian forest, and on the other the State +strip of the Thüringian forest, and on the other the State of Hesse Cassel.</p> <p>Now and again in Bavaria Nigel heard news of the @@ -6394,7 +6355,7 @@ rough triangle. Fulda itself was in the south of the domain and near the Bavarian border. For forty years or more the Abbots of Fulda had kept Lutheranism at bay with as much zeal as the Emperor himself, while Hesse -Cassel and Thüringia, the neighbouring states, had as +Cassel and Thüringia, the neighbouring states, had as sedulously fostered the heresy.</p> <p>Nigel and his men readily gained entry to the town, and @@ -6522,7 +6483,7 @@ Gustavus."</p> his look and tone which suggested to Nigel that it was news to him, and unwelcome news.</p> -<p>"Moreover, my neighbours of Thüringia are in a +<p>"Moreover, my neighbours of Thüringia are in a ferment and have raised up at least a regiment to march into Saxony."</p> @@ -6537,7 +6498,7 @@ Swedes.' But he cannot. He is too headstrong, and too sure of John George. And John George has his people to consider. Do you think Magdeburg has softened <em>them</em>? Has not every village had its separate tale, and, as for -Thüringia, there is a preacher called Pastor Rad, who has<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span> +Thüringia, there is a preacher called Pastor Rad, who has<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span> painted the fall of Magdeburg from one end of the forest to the other in the colours of Sodom and Gomorrah. Beware how you and your troops ride through the forest. @@ -6591,9 +6552,9 @@ himself?"</p> <p>"I know not! All they do they do in secret. But 'tis said they both watch the stars for signs."</p> -<p>"As Cæsar watched the entrails of the sacrifice for +<p>"As Cæsar watched the entrails of the sacrifice for signs!" said the Abbot with a laugh. "But I wager that -Don Cæsar could always find the auspices propitious, if +Don Cæsar could always find the auspices propitious, if his own plans were ripe."</p> <p>This caustic comment did not seem to please Count von @@ -6769,7 +6730,7 @@ have no instructions to make war."</p> <p>"'Tis just as well!" said the Landgrave with a grim smile on his thick lips. "We have that about us that would stop you. You will go hence, if you so choose, -across the river into Thüringia, and make what way you +across the river into Thüringia, and make what way you can. I am not ruler there. But further passage through Hesse you cannot have."</p> @@ -6796,7 +6757,7 @@ knew a man.</p> turn about and make for the river bank. The advance-guard was bidden to stop wherever the river should be fordable. Then they planned to cross into -Thüringia and march north by the way of Erfurt, and +Thüringia and march north by the way of Erfurt, and thence to the camp of Gustavus.</p> <p>The <em>contretemps</em> at Hersfeld was a surprise to both of @@ -7156,7 +7117,7 @@ being restored at present to the parental homestead.</p> <p>"Have you no more powerful friends who could give you refuge till Pastor Rad grows tired of his folly?"</p> -<p>"There is the Lady Ottilie of Thüringen!" said Elspeth. +<p>"There is the Lady Ottilie of Thüringen!" said Elspeth. "I know not where we may find her just now. She comes and goes like the forest deer. She is sometimes at the Wartburg! If she were there, the Landgravine @@ -7199,7 +7160,7 @@ trustworthy troopers should make their way on foot with Elspeth through the Annathal to the Wartburg. By this forest path they would be under cover all the way. Their task accomplished, Nigel and his party could -rejoin the regiment. In the present state of Thüringia, +rejoin the regiment. In the present state of Thüringia, stirred from end to end as it evidently had been, Nigel was bent on keeping as much as possible to the open road, and not allowing his force to be entangled in any @@ -7220,7 +7181,7 @@ and young as she was, into safe keeping, for Nigel had never played philanderer. He was also involuntarily full of the tumult, at once a wonder to himself and a pleasure, that came over him at the thought of Ottilie -von Thüringen.</p> +von Thüringen.</p> <p>Elspeth in her ingenuous way was only too glad to leave the soldiers in the rear, in order to savour the @@ -7272,7 +7233,7 @@ place <em>I</em> shall never cease to wish to see <em>you</em> again."</p> <p>Nigel smiled as he answered—</p> -<p>"You must have a long patience, Fräulein Elspeth, for +<p>"You must have a long patience, Fräulein Elspeth, for I may never come this way again."</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p> <p>Elspeth was on the verge of tears.</p> @@ -7317,7 +7278,7 @@ Blick. Elspeth answered—</p> Wartburg."</p> <p>"Then they must never come through!" said Nigel. -"Fräulein Elspeth, lead these men through to the other +"Fräulein Elspeth, lead these men through to the other end! Blick, stay here with me."</p> <p>Then Nigel peered out from the mouth of the rocky<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span> @@ -7624,7 +7585,7 @@ out, tall beyond her fellows, and cries aloud—</p> <p>"Elspeth! Little Elspeth Reinheit! In what a plight!"</p> -<p>It was Ottilie von Thüringen.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p> +<p>It was Ottilie von Thüringen.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p> @@ -7634,7 +7595,7 @@ plight!"</p> <h3>A CLASH OF HEARTS.</h3> -<p><span class="sc">But</span> for the dark eyes of Ottilie von Thüringen Nigel +<p><span class="sc">But</span> for the dark eyes of Ottilie von Thüringen Nigel Charteris would have led his reluctant horse down to the camp. He had leisure to make this reflection as he sat at meat some degrees below the Landgrave, who, though @@ -7648,7 +7609,7 @@ Elspeth to make a hearty supper, not omitting a goblet of mead, which aided Elspeth's tongue to recover its native fluency.</p> -<p>It was true that the dark eyes of Ottilie von Thüringen +<p>It was true that the dark eyes of Ottilie von Thüringen had sparkled with delight and surprise at the sight of Nigel. Nigel was a Scot, and therefore set the sparkle down to the credit of his account. But Nigel was a Scot, @@ -7784,7 +7745,7 @@ craving admittance with the implements of his art, and his expert fingers made the colonel's face as fresh and dapper as razor and soap could do.</p> -<p>"The Lady Ottilie von Thüringen bade me tell your +<p>"The Lady Ottilie von Thüringen bade me tell your lordship that your other baggage has been brought up by your trooper and placed in the little room which is beside this one."</p> @@ -7830,7 +7791,7 @@ seeking the pine-clothed hill-tops.</p> <p>"Yes! From that cold seeker after power who would use the Habsburgs for a stepping-stone and play the -Cæsar, as you said at Erfurt. I have not forgotten your +Cæsar, as you said at Erfurt. I have not forgotten your saying, Ottilie!"</p> <p>"You are strangely familiar, sir, to a ..." she faltered.</p> @@ -7841,7 +7802,7 @@ saying, Ottilie!"</p> asked promptly.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span></p> <p>"The Archduchess Stephanie! And in truth did I not -know you to be the Lady Ottilie von Thüringen, I could +know you to be the Lady Ottilie von Thüringen, I could believe Her Highness was here."</p> <p>"Her Highness is very gracious to acknowledge me of @@ -7886,7 +7847,7 @@ the Emperor! I cannot understand it."</p> <p>"It is beyond the robber lord's understanding!" Again the scorn whipped him.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span></p> -<p>Again he flushed, and for a moment Ottilie von Thüringen +<p>Again he flushed, and for a moment Ottilie von Thüringen trembled for the outburst. It did not come. She marvelled at the strength of his will. And then she caught her breath, for her eyes saw something. Her impulse @@ -7894,11 +7855,11 @@ was to snatch at it, beyond all the pride of race that was hers. But she also quelled herself. He saw it too and drew it forth. He knew the hand. It was Wallenstein's. A sealed letter, and the superscription was to the -high-born Baroness Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> +high-born Baroness Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> <p>With perfect coolness and grace he handed it to her.</p> -<p>"Our Cæsar has strange postmen of his own!" he +<p>"Our Cæsar has strange postmen of his own!" he said.</p> <p>This time it was the Lady Ottilie who flushed, but @@ -8018,7 +7979,7 @@ to hasten his march northward to Tilly. From all directions he heard that the Landgrave of Hesse was marching to join Gustavus. And the news of the preparations of John George had reached Eisenach. The whole of -Thüringia was in ferment.</p> +Thüringia was in ferment.</p> <p>But the reason of Nigel's uncommon haste down the hill to his camp outside Eisenach was on account of that @@ -8097,7 +8058,7 @@ possess as part of her endowment.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" <p>Then she had spoken of Wallenstein, and he could recall her tones, proud, indignant: "What think you that -Ottilie von Thüringen can have in common with that +Ottilie von Thüringen can have in common with that cold seeker after power?"</p> <p>Yet she had stood by him, Nigel, full of taunts as he @@ -8148,7 +8109,7 @@ machinations.</p> <p>Still at the one end stood the lofty Archduchess, at the other her lovely and almost twin cousin, Ottilie von -Thüringen, and between Wallenstein, the cold seeker after +Thüringen, and between Wallenstein, the cold seeker after power, swaying, utilising both to further his schemes and ambition.</p> @@ -8259,7 +8220,7 @@ George of Saxony, whose territory lay next in his path, to make up his mind.</p> <p>And at this time the Emperor Ferdinand was aware -that Count Fürstenberg, his chief commander in Austrian +that Count Fürstenberg, his chief commander in Austrian Italy, had arrived by leisurely marches with twenty thousand veteran troops by way of Franconia and the upper Palatinate, to join Tilly's army, so that, like @@ -8267,7 +8228,7 @@ Gustavus, he also intended to assist John George of Saxony to make up his mind.</p> <p>To Pappenheim, Tilly being still at Erfurt, or in the -confines of Thüringia, Nigel brought word of the advance<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span> +confines of Thüringia, Nigel brought word of the advance<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span> of Gustavus. Pappenheim sent word to Tilly, and Tilly returned to concert operations.</p> @@ -8386,7 +8347,7 @@ infantry in closely massed battalions stretched for a long distance. Then came the cavalry of Tilly's left. Beyond them was a division of Pappenheim stretching away into the haze. To Nigel's right again was the division led by -Count Fürstenberg, a formidable host in itself.</p> +Count Fürstenberg, a formidable host in itself.</p> <p>"Your men look mettlesome, colonel," Tilly growled, as he rode along by Nigel's regiment, his well-known red @@ -8467,7 +8428,7 @@ right wing on his flank, so to avoid this and partly perhaps because the thing looked tempting, he took ground to the right, and ordered a rapid attack upon the Saxons, who perhaps by accident had drawn rather -towards Tilly than to Count Fürstenberg.</p> +towards Tilly than to Count Fürstenberg.</p> <p>Tilly was right in the one thing. He bore down upon the Saxons, and the Saxon army showed its rawness; @@ -8498,7 +8459,7 @@ broken and fled. Then that the artillery on the hills were in the hands of Gustavus, a fact that they soon became aware of. In face of them was the Swedish left, behind them were their own guns, and on their left flank -Gustavus, marching through the <em>débris</em> of Pappenheim's +Gustavus, marching through the <em>débris</em> of Pappenheim's host, was sweeping down upon them. The day was over. Nigel and Hildebrand rallied their tattered remnant of fifty saddles and rode after Tilly to act as his bodyguard. @@ -8919,7 +8880,7 @@ of the plans of his great adversary. Sometimes he talked as though he had done with war. These were the days when his wounds did not look like healing. Nigel knew the old war-dog well enough to ask, "Who shall succeed?" -That stiffened the Count von Tzerclaës quickly enough.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span> +That stiffened the Count von Tzerclaës quickly enough.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span> He was one of those men who do not breed successors.</p> <p>But by the first days of October it was announced and @@ -9053,7 +9014,7 @@ proposed to face, and he at present tied by the leg with a mere eight or ten battalions under his banner. "And," this was an after-thought born of sheer impatience,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span> "your Highness, there is a lady who calls herself -Ottilie von Thüringen, who takes a great interest in the +Ottilie von Thüringen, who takes a great interest in the Lutheran cause."</p> <p>"Indeed!" said the Archduchess.</p> @@ -9267,7 +9228,7 @@ or more after Breitenfeld. The news which, despite a disunited Germany in arms, came with frequency to Father Lamormain through his far-reaching Jesuit agencies as well as by the military messengers, was to -the effect that Gustavus was besieging Würzburg, and +the effect that Gustavus was besieging Würzburg, and that the Elector of Saxony, John George, having recovered Leipzig, was now clearing his province of Lusatia of the Imperial troops, sent there under Rudolf von Tiefbach, @@ -9527,7 +9488,7 @@ out for Prague.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239 <p><span class="sc">The</span> best inn at Znaim was a solidly built and roomy and uncomfortable place. Znaim is on the road from -Vienna to Prague, and is actually in the Mark of Mähren, +Vienna to Prague, and is actually in the Mark of Mähren, neither in Austria nor Bohemia. Whether that was a reason why His Grace the Duke of Friedland should have affrighted, as much as overjoyed, the host of the Golden @@ -9554,7 +9515,7 @@ some one.</p> <p>And in the late afternoon, just as the Duke had called for candles, the door opened and the man-servant announced -"the Countess Ottilie von Thüringen."</p> +"the Countess Ottilie von Thüringen."</p> <p>From a hood of deep blue velvet edged with sable, a slight colour in her cheeks from the wind, the mysterious @@ -9656,7 +9617,7 @@ sorry to have lost him!"</p> <p>"Was it altogether worthy of Albrecht von Waldstein to wait the issue of a battle, and then to send congratulations -to the victor?" The voice of Ottilie von Thüringen +to the victor?" The voice of Ottilie von Thüringen conveyed sorrow. Her eyes, wide open, searched the Duke's face, which showed nothing.</p> @@ -9801,7 +9762,7 @@ in order to be able to treat on a more equal footing. But what possible price can he offer me to forego my private peace, my ease, the enjoyment of my revenues, and submit to the harassments of raising an army? I speak not yet -of a supreme command. Cæsar made war against the +of a supreme command. Cæsar made war against the Gauls because he needed money before he could gratify his ambition. I do not need money."</p> @@ -9862,7 +9823,7 @@ hands—</p> Wallenstein, worshipped his ambition and wrought as she did even to this day for his success. But no longer! She is satisfied. She could be one with the lofty spirit of -a Cæsar but not with the bargaining, bartering craft of +a Cæsar but not with the bargaining, bartering craft of merchant Wallenstein, who asks what reward he shall<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[247]</a></span> receive at the very hand that opens the gate of the Palace of Glory."</p> @@ -10006,7 +9967,7 @@ of reference to Vienna."</p> <p>"The Duke would be the fountain of honour, and every captain his sworn vassal. That is also a hard condition -and smacks of Cæsarism!" the Jesuit commented. +and smacks of Cæsarism!" the Jesuit commented. "Freedom he asks and power absolute while he exercises his functions, but for reward, what reward does he crave?"</p> @@ -10409,7 +10370,7 @@ and have a glib excuse if you are met. Good-night."</p> <p>For a brief half-hour Nigel waited, exploring the orchard close. There were two other gates, by one of which the Archduchess had beaten her retreat. No sign of any -lurking spy made itself apparent. This time Cæsar's +lurking spy made itself apparent. This time Cæsar's daughter had escaped suspicion, and the lovers had their precious hour of interlude.</p> @@ -10660,7 +10621,7 @@ engaged in the contemplation of his coming sermons to remember, so he answered truthfully enough—</p> <p>"I noticed nothing unseemly in his behaviour either -to Elspeth or to Ottilie von Thüringen!"</p> +to Elspeth or to Ottilie von Thüringen!"</p> <p>"It may be that the captain but took her to a place of safety, thinking her in danger!" said the farmer, growing @@ -10712,7 +10673,7 @@ succeed in restoring the lost lamb to the fold.</p> away up the steep path to the Wartburg.</p> <p>But the quest did not end there. For the Landgravine -told him that the Lady Ottilie von Thüringen had taken +told him that the Lady Ottilie von Thüringen had taken Elspeth away with her when she set out for Halberstadt, which was the next day, or the next day but one, after the Emperor's colonel had brought her.</p> @@ -10739,7 +10700,7 @@ towards Bohemia.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27 <p><span class="sc">The</span> Archduchess Stephanie had rightly counted on a safe journey from Halberstadt to Bohemia, however small an escort she might be accorded. For, as the Countess -Ottilie von Thüringen she claimed safe conduct whenever +Ottilie von Thüringen she claimed safe conduct whenever there was any risk of getting embroiled with small bodies of Protestant levies, and her escort was far too mindful of its own safety to risk giving any other account @@ -10752,7 +10713,7 @@ leaders, her name was sufficient to guarantee her safety through country patrolled by their troops.</p> <p>So it was the track of the Countess Ottilie von -Thüringen that Pastor Rad picked up at Erfurt. He +Thüringen that Pastor Rad picked up at Erfurt. He learned that she had an escort of twenty Imperial troopers: that she had in her train several women servants or companions, the information not being very @@ -10849,7 +10810,7 @@ him, professed not to understand his speech. He slunk into the first inn that offered a semblance of refuge and frugal fare at a modest price. Having slept as well as he was able, he set out the next morning to find the Lady -Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> +Ottilie von Thüringen.</p> <p>Having first approached some of his own belief and discovered that they knew nothing of her, not even her @@ -10996,7 +10957,7 @@ For a few instants he was at a loss. They were also deep<span class="pagenum"><a and rich and aristocratic; the words they uttered were choice rather than homely. Then something in them recalled the very woman he was seeking, Ottilie von -Thüringen.</p> +Thüringen.</p> <p>At this moment when he waited for the inspiration he expected, an untoward interruption befell. He dislodged @@ -11036,7 +10997,7 @@ of the orchard close in the gardens of the palace.</p> <p>Upon examination he proved to be reticent even to moroseness. His only explanation was that he had come to Vienna in search of a high-born lady, the Countess -Ottilie von Thüringen. The officer of the guard had +Ottilie von Thüringen. The officer of the guard had never heard of her, and till the morning had no one to consult. So Pastor Rad spent an uncomfortable night. His supper was meagre. The stone floor of the guard-room @@ -11107,7 +11068,7 @@ a member of my flock from Eisenach."</p> <p>"How did she come thither?"</p> <p>"I had learned that she set out for Prague in company -of a certain Countess Ottilie von Thüringen."</p> +of a certain Countess Ottilie von Thüringen."</p> <p>"Yes?"</p> @@ -11472,7 +11433,7 @@ seeks this Elspeth Reinheit."</p> <p>"Yes! But what has that to do with me?"</p> <p>"He is convinced that this girl was brought by a -certain mysterious Countess Ottilie von Thüringen, <em>of +certain mysterious Countess Ottilie von Thüringen, <em>of whom I have more than once heard</em>, to Prague, that she set out for Znaim, and from Znaim for Vienna."</p> @@ -11527,13 +11488,13 @@ departed for Tilly's army!"</p> <p>"I believe none of your pastor's tales! There is no Elspeth Reinheit about the palace, even in the kitchens, -no Ottilie von Thüringen that I have ever heard of in +no Ottilie von Thüringen that I have ever heard of in Vienna. As for me I have a suitor, or had one, of whom you have spoken aforetime, the Elector Maximilian. One suitor at a time is trouble enough."</p> <p>The Jesuit knew too many particulars of the doings of -Ottilie von Thüringen to be in any doubt as to her identity, +Ottilie von Thüringen to be in any doubt as to her identity, but his suspicions of Nigel were too slight to credit the whole story of the pastor, so he said—</p> @@ -12167,7 +12128,7 @@ cross.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Pag <p><span class="sc">Nigel</span> awoke to the jolting of an ox-waggon, over which was a rough covering. He was lying in his cloak on a truss of straw. Beside him sat one of his aides-de-camp, -Captain von Grätz. But just now he looked strangely +Captain von Grätz. But just now he looked strangely unlike a military man, and was reciting prayers, fingering a rosary which hung about his neck while he did so, with an earnestness that suggested that some one was on the @@ -12371,7 +12332,7 @@ might find."</p> <p>"It is naught!" said Nigel, getting up. "I have lost blood. I have a scratch in the ribs, a thrust of pike in my left shoulder, but they heal. A Jesuit is living with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[312]</a></span> -me, Captain von Grätz, salving me, preaching to me, and +me, Captain von Grätz, salving me, preaching to me, and doing military duty too."</p> <p>"Not a word to him! Father Lamormain suspects! @@ -12726,7 +12687,7 @@ that he could make no manner of guess who the lady was.</p> the groom, whom he saluted civilly enough and asked plumply who his mistress was, to which the groom replied with equal civility that she was the Countess Ottilie von -Thüringen.</p> +Thüringen.</p> <p>"Gott im Himmel!" said Sergeant Blick, and plied no more questions.</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[322]</a></span></p> @@ -13192,7 +13153,7 @@ a troop of your hussars to scour the roads!"</p> <p>"With pleasure! But I beg that you will use discretion. The name of a princess that will one day be Electress of Bavaria may not be lightly bandied. May I -suggest Captain von Grätz?"</p> +suggest Captain von Grätz?"</p> <p>"As you will, cousin!"</p> @@ -13217,7 +13178,7 @@ light of laughter, though her lip had more than usual of its proud upward curl. Her eyes danced as with her quick gaze they lit upon the three astounded faces of her suitor, her brother, and the officer they called -von Grätz.</p> +von Grätz.</p> <p>Nicholas Kraft and his wife hastened forward and bent the knee before her. To them all graciousness she said—</p> @@ -13233,7 +13194,7 @@ and delight in her beauty, fain though he was not to betray himself too much.</p> <p>The Archduke followed, but not too eagerly. Captain -von Grätz alone remained where he was, prey to a hundred +von Grätz alone remained where he was, prey to a hundred vexations, but showing nothing in his calm face.</p> <p>"So eager yet, cousin Maximilian!"</p> @@ -13630,392 +13591,11 @@ THE ADVANCED-GUARD.</p> <p>A number of printing errors have been corrected without comment (e.g. missing quotation mark, missing letter). There are some inconsistencies in how the author spelled German cities/regions in the original publication. Notations in English, German with umlauts and German without umlauts are found. The following changes have been made:<br /> -Wurzburg changed to Würzburg, Siebenburgen to Siebenbürgen, Nuremburg to Nuremberg, Furstenberg and Furstenburg to Fürstenberg.<br /> +Wurzburg changed to Würzburg, Siebenburgen to Siebenbürgen, Nuremburg to Nuremberg, Furstenberg and Furstenburg to Fürstenberg.<br /> On pg. <a href="#Page_3">3</a> portable was changed to potable.<br /> Archaic spelling retained.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mercenary, by W. J. 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