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CHAP. VII.

Here the busy preparations for the recruiting of the army, the Court of the Emperor, and the multitude of strangers resident there at that time, could not fail of attracting attention, and inspiring ardor in the bosoms of two brave men who wished to distinguish themselves in a cause against their common enemy. Count M. was introduced to the Emperor, Charles the Sixth, who, having just received an account of the death