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d character, its good and its bad side; her extreme p

known as the "White and Blue," and one of his duties was to get up at 4 in the morning and measure corn for horses. At one time the captain lived in Berlin, but he soon tired of the capital

cken, married at the age of sixteen; her h

Louise's case it might well read "ambition." She wished to see Otto von Bismarck, her younge

ry, frequently his earliest friends used to say, "Bis

lexible resolution, the will to rulers

nerves and schooled her sharp ey

been growing of late; Karl was too soft with Otto. She was angered to think th

l hadn't it in his heart to correct the child, but instead began making excuses for Otto's conduct. This aroused

spoiled by the foolishness of his soft father-not at all! She would sen

acting with all the aggressiveness for which in l

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