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He
wrote
off
to
Chutney
at
the
Club
to
say
that
the
Service
was
highly
appreciated
in
Germany
,
that
he
was
going
to
show
his
friend
,
the
Count
de
Schlusselback
,
how
to
stick
a
pig
in
the
Indian
fashion
,
and
that
his
august
friends
,
the
Duke
and
Duchess
,
were
everything
that
was
kind
and
civil
.
Emmy
,
too
,
was
presented
to
the
august
family
,
and
as
mourning
is
not
admitted
in
Court
on
certain
days
,
she
appeared
in
a
pink
crape
dress
with
a
diamond
ornament
in
the
corsage
,
presented
to
her
by
her
brother
,
and
she
looked
so
pretty
in
this
costume
that
the
Duke
and
Court
(
putting
out
of
the
question
the
Major
,
who
had
scarcely
ever
seen
her
before
in
an
evening
dress
,
and
vowed
that
she
did
not
look
five-and-twenty
)
all
admired
her
excessively
.
In
this
dress
she
walked
a
Polonaise
with
Major
Dobbin
at
a
Court
ball
,
in
which
easy
dance
Mr.
Jos
had
the
honour
of
leading
out
the
Countess
of
Schlusselback
,
an
old
lady
with
a
hump
back
,
but
with
sixteen
good
quarters
of
nobility
and
related
to
half
the
royal
houses
of
Germany
.
Pumpernickel
stands
in
the
midst
of
a
happy
valley
through
which
sparkles
--
to
mingle
with
the
Rhine
somewhere
,
but
I
have
not
the
map
at
hand
to
say
exactly
at
what
point
--
the
fertilizing
stream
of
the
Pump
.
In
some
places
the
river
is
big
enough
to
support
a
ferry-boat
,
in
others
to
turn
a
mill
;
in
Pumpernickel
itself
,
the
last
Transparency
but
three
,
the
great
and
renowned
Victor
Aurelius
XIV
built
a
magnificent
bridge
,
on
which
his
own
statue
rises
,
surrounded
by
water-nymphs
and
emblems
of
victory
,
peace
,
and
plenty
;
he
has
his
foot
on
the
neck
of
a
prostrate
Turk
--
history
says
he
engaged
and
ran
a
Janissary
through
the
body
at
the
relief
of
Vienna
by
Sobieski
--
but
,
quite
undisturbed
by
the
agonies
of
that
prostrate
Mahometan
,
who
writhes
at
his
feet
in
the
most
ghastly
manner
,
the
Prince
smiles
blandly
and
points
with
his
truncheon
in
the
direction
of
the
Aurelius
Platz
,
where
he
began
to
erect
a
new
palace
that
would
have
been
the
wonder
of
his
age
had
the
great-souled
Prince
but
had
funds
to
complete
it
.
But
the
completion
of
Monplaisir
(
Monblaisir
the
honest
German
folks
call
it
)
was
stopped
for
lack
of
ready
money
,
and
it
and
its
park
and
garden
are
now
in
rather
a
faded
condition
,
and
not
more
than
ten
times
big
enough
to
accommodate
the
Court
of
the
reigning
Sovereign
.
The
gardens
were
arranged
to
emulate
those
of
Versailles
,
and
amidst
the
terraces
and
groves
there
are
some
huge
allegorical
waterworks
still
,
which
spout
and
froth
stupendously
upon
fete-days
,
and
frighten
one
with
their
enormous
aquatic
insurrections
.
There
is
the
Trophonius
'
cave
in
which
,
by
some
artifice
,
the
leaden
Tritons
are
made
not
only
to
spout
water
,
but
to
play
the
most
dreadful
groans
out
of
their
lead
conchs
--
there
is
the
nymphbath
and
the
Niagara
cataract
,
which
the
people
of
the
neighbourhood
admire
beyond
expression
,
when
they
come
to
the
yearly
fair
at
the
opening
of
the
Chamber
,
or
to
the
fetes
with
which
the
happy
little
nation
still
celebrates
the
birthdays
and
marriage-days
of
its
princely
governors
.
Then
from
all
the
towns
of
the
Duchy
,
which
stretches
for
nearly
ten
mile
--
from
Bolkum
,
which
lies
on
its
western
frontier
bidding
defiance
to
Prussia
,
from
Grogwitz
,
where
the
Prince
has
a
hunting-lodge
,
and
where
his
dominions
are
separated
by
the
Pump
River
from
those
of
the
neighbouring
Prince
of
Potzenthal
;
from
all
the
little
villages
,
which
besides
these
three
great
cities
,
dot
over
the
happy
principality
--
from
the
farms
and
the
mills
along
the
Pump
come
troops
of
people
in
red
petticoats
and
velvet
head-dresses
,
or
with
three-cornered
hats
and
pipes
in
their
mouths
,
who
flock
to
the
Residenz
and
share
in
the
pleasures
of
the
fair
and
the
festivities
there
.
Then
the
theatre
is
open
for
nothing
,
then
the
waters
of
Monblaisir
begin
to
play
(
it
is
lucky
that
there
is
company
to
behold
them
,
for
one
would
be
afraid
to
see
them
alone
)
--
then
there
come
mountebanks
and
riding
troops
(
the
way
in
which
his
Transparency
was
fascinated
by
one
of
the
horse-riders
is
well
known
,
and
it
is
believed
that
La
Petite
Vivandiere
,
as
she
was
called
,
was
a
spy
in
the
French
interest
)
,
and
the
delighted
people
are
permitted
to
march
through
room
after
room
of
the
Grand
Ducal
palace
and
admire
the
slippery
floor
,
the
rich
hangings
,
and
the
spittoons
at
the
doors
of
all
the
innumerable
chambers
.
There
is
one
Pavilion
at
Monblaisir
which
Aurelius
Victor
XV
had
arranged
--
a
great
Prince
but
too
fond
of
pleasure
--
and
which
I
am
told
is
a
perfect
wonder
of
licentious
elegance
.
It
is
painted
with
the
story
of
Bacchus
and
Ariadne
,
and
the
table
works
in
and
out
of
the
room
by
means
of
a
windlass
,
so
that
the
company
was
served
without
any
intervention
of
domestics
.
But
the
place
was
shut
up
by
Barbara
,
Aurelius
XV
's
widow
,
a
severe
and
devout
Princess
of
the
House
of
Bolkum
and
Regent
of
the
Duchy
during
her
son
's
glorious
minority
,
and
after
the
death
of
her
husband
,
cut
off
in
the
pride
of
his
pleasures
.
The
theatre
of
Pumpernickel
is
known
and
famous
in
that
quarter
of
Germany
.
