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The policy of Russia had two grand objects, both of them wholly inconsistent with the policy of England; and therefore rendering the ambassador's zeal wholly useless. The King of Prussia favoured both, and therefore commanded the highest influence with the empress. It was thus the impossible task of the unfortunate diplomatist, to convince a haughty and self-sufficient woman against her will.
In consequence, Lord Kirkaldy, an accurate and elegant scholar in European tongues, besides speaking them with the cosmopolitan ease of an ambassador's son, was horrified, not only at Mark's pronunciation, but at his attempts at letter-writing and translation, made with all the good will in the world, but fit for nothing but to furnish the good stories which the kind uncle refrained from telling any one but his wife.
This letter of Prince Louis had been read at the Comtesse du Barry's; the levity of the ambassador's correspondence wounded the feelings and the dignity of the Dauphiness at Versailles, while at Vienna the representations which he made to Maria Theresa against the young Princess terminated in rendering the motives of his incessant complaints suspected by the Empress.
The Count's little baggage was not difficult to remove, and, that very evening, he was installed in the finest apartment of the Ambassador's house. The Marquis was overjoyed at having restored to the illustrious house of Moncade the heir of its greatness, and of its magnificent domains.
I made a Court toilet, took a coach, and went to call on the ambassador. His excellency was not at home, so I left my card and the letter. It was a feast-day, and I went to high mass, not so much, I confess, to seek for God as for my charmer, but she was not there. After service I walked around the town, and on my return found an officer who asked me to dinner at the ambassador's.
Beyond the fact that she was Russian, and a friend of the Dalmatian Ambassador's wife herself a Slav Paul was still ignorant. Indeed, for all he knew, she might be some poor relation lack of fortune was the only possible reason he could ascribe for her being unmarried. Beautiful and attractive women, of good family if they were rich did not wander over the Continent long without husbands.
"I have found out that they do not belong to the Venetian ambassador's household. "You are right, and I hope you will pardon my small fiction." "It was an impromptu effort to avoid telling me who they are, but they are known." "Then I congratulate the curious." "The one I addressed deserves to excite general curiosity; but if I were in your place I should make her use a little powder."
The Ambassador's manner changed. "No, I do not think," he said, "I do not think that is a good thing at all. They must not do that. You must not let them." "But why not?" "I say to all Japanese men and women who live a long time in foreign countries or who marry foreign people, 'Do not go back to Japan, Japan is like a little pot and the foreign world is like a big garden.
"Now, Count, as we will have about ten minutes longer together, I am quite sure that the Secretary will not object to your joining me with one of the Ambassador's extremely good cigars," and he winked at his friend Jones. He walked over to the table as if to get the box, but the moment his back was turned the Count jumped and started for the door like a flash.
The French Ambassador's departure was not attended by any hostile demonstration, but his Excellency before leaving had been justly offended by a harangue made by the Chief Burgomaster of Vienna to the crowd assembled before the steps of the town hall, in which he assured the people that Paris was in the throes of a revolution, and that the President of the Republic had been assassinated.
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