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"There's a split, I believe. And I want to hear whether it's true that the Czar's abdicated." "I believe you'd rather he hadn't, Alexei Petrovitch," Markovitch broke in fiercely. He laughed at us all and said, "Whose interests am I studying? My own?... Holy Russia's?... Yours?... When will you learn, Nicholas my friend, that I am a spectator, not a participator?"
He had some time before wished to take a trip to Paris, but Louis XIV. was old, melancholy, and vanquished, and had declined the czar's visit. The Regent could not do the same thing, when, being at the Hague in 1717, Peter I. repeated the expression of his desire. Marshal Cosse was sent to meet him, and the honors due to the king himself were everywhere paid to him on the road.
For a full minute we stood facing each other thus, both silent, and then he turned and led the way in the direction of the official cabinet. "Prince," I said, just before we entered, "you have no cause to quarrel with me. Remember that in the interview that is to come." He stopped short, and turned and faced me before the door of the czar's cabinet. "Are you quite sure of that?" he demanded.
But the Germans protected themselves with such a well-directed and furious curtain of artillery fire that the czar's troops could make no further progress in spite of exceedingly heavy losses. Again Witoniez and Kiselin were the center of desperate fighting which gradually spread to the forest near Ostrow, north of Kiselin, and to the region near the villages of Dubeschovo and Gulevitchie.
They told each other of the quaint ways of this or the other; they joked loudly over 'Billy' this being a nickname discovered for the German Emperor and what he would be saying of the Czar's trip; they questioned each other, and answered each other concerning the places they were going to see, with great interest, displaying admirable knowledge.
The Mosquito fleet had been employed for many weeks in destroying almost immeasurable quantities of provisions and stores, effectually crippling the resources of the Czar's armies. Private property had invariably been spared, so that the inhabitants of the country did not exhibit any ill-feeling towards the English.
But then, who were these new invaders, and by what out-of-the-way path across the steppe had they been able to join the highroad to Irkutsk? With what new enemies was the Czar's courier now to meet? He did not communicate his apprehensions either to Nicholas or Nadia, not wishing to make them uneasy. Besides, he had resolved to continue his way, as long as no insurmountable obstacle stopped him.
Hover, oh all ye angels, round his banners! ARCHBISHOP. Can it be so? The traitor, canst thou trust MARFA. He is my son. Yes! by these signs alone I recognize him. By thy Czar's alarm I recognize him. Yes! He lives! He comes! Down, tyrant, from thy throne, and shake with fear!
"The next move was the Czar's. 'Fraternal sentiments of the Russian people for the Slavs in Servia, he says, led him to order partial mobilization, following Austria's invasion of Servia. Instantly Germany protested, and within forty-eight hours sent an ultimatum demanding that Russia cease her preparations.
Ignatieff's effort to gain over Austria therefore failed; and it was doubtless Lord Beaconsfield's confidence in the certainty of Hapsburg support in case of war that prompted his defiance alike of Russia and of the Liberal party at home. The Czar's Government also was well aware of the peril of arousing a European war.
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