Vol. XXI. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link book Vol. XXI. (of XXI.) 9/63 "We deliver to your Majesty the written Specification you were graciously pleased to command of us. It contains only the indispensablest things that the Circles are in need of. Moreover, it regards only the STANDE [richer Nobility], who pay contribution; the Gentry [ADEL], and other poor people, who have been utterly plundered out by the Russians, are not included in it:--the Gentry too have suffered very much by the War and the Plundering." KING. "What EDELLEUTE that are members of STANDE have you [ER] got in your Circle ?" NUSSLER (names them; and, as finis of the list, adds):... "I myself, too, your Majesty, I have suffered more than anybody: I absolutely could not furnish those 4,000 bushels of meal ordered of me by the Russians; upon which they--" KING. |