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It
languished
a
little
when
the
present
Duke
in
his
youth
insisted
upon
having
his
own
operas
played
there
,
and
it
is
said
one
day
,
in
a
fury
,
from
his
place
in
the
orchestra
,
when
he
attended
a
rehearsal
,
broke
a
bassoon
on
the
head
of
the
Chapel
Master
,
who
was
conducting
,
and
led
too
slow
;
and
during
which
time
the
Duchess
Sophia
wrote
domestic
comedies
,
which
must
have
been
very
dreary
to
witness
.
But
the
Prince
executes
his
music
in
private
now
,
and
the
Duchess
only
gives
away
her
plays
to
the
foreigners
of
distinction
who
visit
her
kind
little
Court
.
It
is
conducted
with
no
small
comfort
and
splendour
.
When
there
are
balls
,
though
there
may
be
four
hundred
people
at
supper
,
there
is
a
servant
in
scarlet
and
lace
to
attend
upon
every
four
,
and
every
one
is
served
on
silver
.
There
are
festivals
and
entertainments
going
continually
on
,
and
the
Duke
has
his
chamberlains
and
equerries
,
and
the
Duchess
her
mistress
of
the
wardrobe
and
ladies
of
honour
,
just
like
any
other
and
more
potent
potentates
.
The
Constitution
is
or
was
a
moderate
despotism
,
tempered
by
a
Chamber
that
might
or
might
not
be
elected
.
I
never
certainly
could
hear
of
its
sitting
in
my
time
at
Pumpernickel
.
The
Prime
Minister
had
lodgings
in
a
second
floor
,
and
the
Foreign
Secretary
occupied
the
comfortable
lodgings
over
Zwieback
's
Conditorey
.
The
army
consisted
of
a
magnificent
band
that
also
did
duty
on
the
stage
,
where
it
was
quite
pleasant
to
see
the
worthy
fellows
marching
in
Turkish
dresses
with
rouge
on
and
wooden
scimitars
,
or
as
Roman
warriors
with
ophicleides
and
trombones
--
to
see
them
again
,
I
say
,
at
night
,
after
one
had
listened
to
them
all
the
morning
in
the
Aurelius
Platz
,
where
they
performed
opposite
the
cafe
where
we
breakfasted
.
Besides
the
band
,
there
was
a
rich
and
numerous
staff
of
officers
,
and
,
I
believe
,
a
few
men
.
Besides
the
regular
sentries
,
three
or
four
men
,
habited
as
hussars
,
used
to
do
duty
at
the
Palace
,
but
I
never
saw
them
on
horseback
,
and
au
fait
,
what
was
the
use
of
cavalry
in
a
time
of
profound
peace
?
--
and
whither
the
deuce
should
the
hussars
ride
?
Everybody
--
everybody
that
was
noble
of
course
,
for
as
for
the
bourgeois
we
could
not
quite
be
expected
to
take
notice
of
THEM
--
visited
his
neighbour
.
H.
E.
Madame
de
Burst
received
once
a
week
,
H.
E.
Madame
de
Schnurrbart
had
her
night
--
the
theatre
was
open
twice
a
week
,
the
Court
graciously
received
once
,
so
that
a
man
's
life
might
in
fact
be
a
perfect
round
of
pleasure
in
the
unpretending
Pumpernickel
way
.
That
there
were
feuds
in
the
place
,
no
one
can
deny
.
Politics
ran
very
high
at
Pumpernickel
,
and
parties
were
very
bitter
.
There
was
the
Strumpff
faction
and
the
Lederlung
party
,
the
one
supported
by
our
envoy
and
the
other
by
the
French
Charge
d'Affaires
,
M.
de
Macabau
.
Indeed
it
sufficed
for
our
Minister
to
stand
up
for
Madame
Strumpff
,
who
was
clearly
the
greater
singer
of
the
two
,
and
had
three
more
notes
in
her
voice
than
Madame
Lederlung
her
rival
--
it
sufficed
,
I
say
,
for
our
Minister
to
advance
any
opinion
to
have
it
instantly
contradicted
by
the
French
diplomatist
.
Everybody
in
the
town
was
ranged
in
one
or
other
of
these
factions
.
The
Lederlung
was
a
prettyish
little
creature
certainly
,
and
her
voice
(
what
there
was
of
it
)
was
very
sweet
,
and
there
is
no
doubt
that
the
Strumpff
was
not
in
her
first
youth
and
beauty
,
and
certainly
too
stout
;
when
she
came
on
in
the
last
scene
of
the
Sonnambula
,
for
instance
,
in
her
night-chemise
with
a
lamp
in
her
hand
,
and
had
to
go
out
of
the
window
,
and
pass
over
the
plank
of
the
mill
,
it
was
all
she
could
do
to
squeeze
out
of
the
window
,
and
the
plank
used
to
bend
and
creak
again
under
her
weight
--
but
how
she
poured
out
the
finale
of
the
opera
!
and
with
what
a
burst
of
feeling
she
rushed
into
Elvino
's
arms
--
almost
fit
to
smother
him
!
Whereas
the
little
Lederlung
--
but
a
truce
to
this
gossip
--
the
fact
is
that
these
two
women
were
the
two
flags
of
the
French
and
the
English
party
at
Pumpernickel
,
and
the
society
was
divided
in
its
allegiance
to
those
two
great
nations
.
We
had
on
our
side
the
Home
Minister
,
the
Master
of
the
Horse
,
the
Duke
's
Private
Secretary
,
and
the
Prince
's
Tutor
;
whereas
of
the
French
party
were
the
Foreign
Minister
,
the
Commander-in-Chief
's
Lady
,
who
had
served
under
Napoleon
,
and
the
Hof-Marschall
and
his
wife
,
who
was
glad
enough
to
get
the
fashions
from
Pans
,
and
always
had
them
and
her
caps
by
M.
de
Macabau
's
courier
.
The
Secretary
of
his
Chancery
was
little
Grignac
,
a
young
fellow
,
as
malicious
as
Satan
,
and
who
made
caricatures
of
Tapeworm
in
all
the-albums
of
the
place
.
Their
headquarters
and
table
d'hote
were
established
at
the
Pariser
Hof
,
the
other
inn
of
the
town
;
and
though
,
of
course
,
these
gentlemen
were
obliged
to
be
civil
in
public
,
yet
they
cut
at
each
other
with
epigrams
that
were
as
sharp
as
razors
,
as
I
have
seen
a
couple
of
wrestlers
in
Devonshire
,
lashing
at
each
other
's
shins
and
never
showing
their
agony
upon
a
muscle
of
their
faces
.
Neither
Tapeworm
nor
Macabau
ever
sent
home
a
dispatch
to
his
government
without
a
most
savage
series
of
attacks
upon
his
rival
.
For
instance
,
on
our
side
we
would
write
,
"
The
interests
of
Great
Britain
in
this
place
,
and
throughout
the
whole
of
Germany
,
are
perilled
by
the
continuance
in
office
of
the
present
French
envoy
;
this
man
is
of
a
character
so
infamous
that
he
will
stick
at
no
falsehood
,
or
hesitate
at
no
crime
,
to
attain
his
ends
.
