12/24 But about these Lochinvar did not disturb his head greatly. Instead he discovered a cook--"I paid the fellow twenty-four Pauls a day"-- whose manner of roasting a turkey was most extraordinary. He cultivated the English doctor of the city and through him procured invitations to the balls given by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The King of Bavaria attended one of these balls, and something very terrible happened. It was _lese-majeste_ in its most virulent form. |