"What is it?
I have already forgotten it, reverend sir." "Katharina von Landsknechtsschild." The vice-palatine's pointed mustaches essayed to give utterance to the name.
"Lantz-k-nek-hisz-sild--that's asking a great deal from a body at one time!" he concluded, in disgust at his ill success.
"And yet, it is a good old Hungarian family name.

The last Diet recognized her ancestors as belonging to the nobility." This remark was made by a third gentleman.

He was sitting on the left of the vice-palatine, and was clad in snuff-colored clothes.

His face was covered with small-pox marks; he had tangled yellow hair and inflamed eyelids.
"Are you acquainted with the family, doctor ?" asked the vice-palatine.
"Of course I am," replied the doctor.

"Baron Landsknechtsschild inherited this estate from his mother, who was a Markoczy.