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Rh if they understood Pneumatic Science, &c., His Grace was with his left arm on the corner of my bed, and the party generally, politely attentive ; but one of them attracted my notice from his seeming to become a little restless, going out of the cell, and not attending to what I was stating. The assassins said, ‘That’s the victim.’ A few days after, I learned that this person was the Russian Count Pahlin ; the assassins chuckling, often asked me if I remembered the Russian with arms too short for his person, and an impediment in his speech, saying, ‘It will he all over with the Mollys.’ Every thing was then quiet, but it was not long before Prussia began to be agitated, and this brought on the war which beat it and the Russians out of the field, and left the Count Pahlin dead upon it.”

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