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In profoundly respectful Memoranda it has implored the Pope to act inconsistently, by administering the affairs of his States upon the principles of lay governments. Should the Pope turn a deaf ear, the diplomatists have no right to complain, because they recognize his character, as an independent sovereign.
His proposal to punish France by partitioning the country and thus placing it on a par with Germany, was far more practical in its tendency. This honest veteran had in fact a deeper insight into affairs than the most wary diplomatists. In 1815, the same persons, as in 1814, met in Paris, and similar interests were agitated.
With mischief-makers like Champernoun in every city, and with such diplomatists at Ostend as Croft and Ropers and Valentine Dale, was it wonderful that the King and the Duke of Parma found time to mature their plans for the destruction of both countries? Lord Willoughby, too, was extremely dissatisfied with his own position. He received no commission from the Queen for several months.
The Pope granted us the Motu Proprio of Portici, and the Romans gained nothing by it. Shall our diplomatists repeat in 1859 this same part of dupes?
About this time M. de Saa surprised me by giving me a letter from my fair Portuguese, which confirmed the sad fate of poor Clairmont. Pauline said she was married to Count Al . I was astonished to hear M. de Saa observe that he had known all about Pauline from the moment she arrived in London. That is the hobby of all diplomatists; they like people to believe that they are omniscient.
"What have we to do with business? Leave business to the diplomatists and their clerks. Why should lips so charming and beautiful pronounce this cold and dismal word?" "If I spoke of business, I meant revenge," said Victoria, fervently. "Give me the papers, Bonnier the papers that are to ruin Thugut!" Bonnier took her head between his hands and looked at her with flaming eyes.
Raikes rejoins in a style that would be signified by 'ahem! in language, and an arrangement of the shirt collar before the looking-glass, in action. There was peace in Mr. Goren's shop. Badgered Ministers, bankrupt merchants, diplomatists with a headache any of our modern grandees under difficulties, might have envied that peace over which Mr. Goren presided: and he was an enviable man.
"You are quite sure," she persisted, "you are quite sure that he could not have a mission of any sort? that there isn't any meeting of diplomatists here in which he might be interested?" Mr. Draconmeyer smiled with the air of one listening to a child's prattle. "If I were not sure that you are in earnest !" he began. "However, I will just answer your question. Nothing of the sort is possible.
What were its causes? The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on.
They had at their absolute command all the resources of the greatest kingdom in Europe; and he was merely the servant of a commonwealth, of which the whole territory was inferior in extent to Normandy or Guienne. A succession of generals and diplomatists of eminent ability had been opposed to him. A powerful faction in his native country had pertinaciously crossed his designs.
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