The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries V
Chapter 37
_To the above enter_ TERZKY
COUNTESS (_meeting him_).
What meant that cry? What was it?
TERZKY.
All is lost!
COUNTESS.
What! they regarded not his countenance?
TERZKY.
'Twas all in vain.
DUCHESS.
They shouted Vivat!--
TERZKY.
To the Emperor.
COUNTESS.
The traitors!
TERZIBY.
Nay! he was not permitted Even to address them. Soon as he began, With deafening noise of warlike instruments They drown'd his words. But here he comes.