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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XLV
10/23

He has noble instincts, this young fellow, and some sense.

He has sent for me.

If H----, and B----, and Von U----, and myself can but get his ear! "Oh, Rhineland! my own beloved Rhineland, shall I see you again?
Shall I sit once more in my own grey castle, among the vineyards, above the broad gleaming river, and hear the noises from the town come floating softly up the hillside! I wonder are there any left who will remember--" He took two short turns through the room, and then he turned and spoke to them again, looking all the time at Sam.
"I am the Baron von Landstein.

The very man we have so often talked of, and whose character we have so freely discussed.

When the French attacked us, I threw myself into the foremost ranks of my countrymen, and followed the Queen with two regiments which I had raised almost entirely myself.
"I fled away from the blood-red sun of Jena, wounded and desperate.
That sun," I thought, "has set on the ruins of Great Frederick's kingdom.


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