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and the feet bound with heavy chains. The figure had raised itself
the grating in the wall, behind which the grim-bearded face of a
angrily to the prisoner. Beneath this stood some verses in German.
describes one of these cups and the fate which befell it. One of
into the hands of the Emperor Joseph the Second, who kept it in his
of Frederick the Great, Trenck afterward recovered in Paris. Some of
some are in the museum in Berlin.] "Oh fearful! most fearful!"
breast. She cared not that the strange jeweller saw her tears and
had no more to lose. The assembled world might hear and see her
might perhaps be increased to punish her through him! She must not
chains, he still lived; so long as he lived, she must conquer the
proud resolve. She would be calm and self-possessed; perhaps this
her. She half turned her head toward him; he appeared not to be
in his casket.
"Can you tell me who engraved this cup?"
"Certainly, your royal highness. A poor prisoner, who has been
Magdeburg, engraved it. He is called Frederick von.
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