[The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER XV 20/23
By fortune a most exalted sculptor in Berlin has him ready,--and many horses pulled him to here, to Lovely View, by post-haste; sthat we know.
But we are in extremity of puzzlement.
For where is the statue to ride him? where--am I plain to you, sirs ?--is sthe Marshal Furst von Eppenwelzen, our great ancestor? Yet the Markgrafin says, "It is right, wait!" She nods, she smiles.
Our Court is all at de lake-palace odder side sthe tower, and it is bets of gems, of feathers, of lace, not to be numbered! The Markgrafin says--sthere to-day you see him, Albrecht Wohlgemuth Furst von Eppenwelzen! But no sculptor can have cast him in bronze--not copied him and cast him in a time of seven days! And we say sthis:--Has she given a secret order to a sculptor--you understand me, sirs, commission--where, how, has he sthe likeness copied? Or did he come to our speisesaal of our lake-palace disguised? Oh! but to see, to copy, to model, to cast in bronze, to travel betwixt Berlin and Sarkeld in a time of seven days? No! so-oh! we guess, we guess, we are in exhaustion.
And to-day is like an eagle we have sent an arrow to shoot and know not if he will come down.
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