United States or Austria ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Count Deym, who at that time was Austrian Ambassador in London, told a friend of mine that my picture in these respects could not have been more accurate had I known Hungary for a lifetime. Of its merits as a study of human nature, and an essay on the philosophy of life, it is not my province to speak. I merely indicate the conclusion to which, as an attempt at philosophic analysis, it leads.
Somehow, she struck my imagination more than any of these others more than Count Deym, more than Mr. Balfour, more than the lovely Lady Thisbe Crowborough. 'I might have had a ducal vehicle all to myself, and should have liked that; but it seemed more correct that I should use my bicycle. On the other hand, I didn't want to ride with all these people a stranger in their midst.
The cotillon was led by Count Deym and Count Bergen, and they led it to perfection; there was not a hitch anywhere. Every one was animated and gay; certainly the music was inspiring enough to have made an Egyptian mummy get out of his sarcophagus and caper about. When at last he made up his mind to start nothing short of an earthquake could have stopped him.
Word Of The Day