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Updated: May 27, 2025
Shall I open it, your excellency?" "One moment! I first want to turn back the painting. So! Now open the door, Hubschle!" The private secretary hastened with tottering steps to the door and unlocked it. Thugut's second private secretary entered. He held a sealed letter in his band. "Well, Heinle, what's the matter?" asked Thugut, quietly.
"A dispatch to the emperor!" he said, handing it to Heinle. "Let a mounted messenger take it immediately to his majesty." This dispatch contained the reply to the emperor's laconic note, and it was almost more laconic than the latter, for it contained only the following words: "Sire, within an hour order will be reestablished."
"We will see how long it will remain! Ah, Heinle is rapping again at the other door. What is it, Heinle?" "Another dispatch from the French ambassador," said Heinle, merely pushing his arm with the letter through the door. "And you have made the same reply?" "The same reply." "Good! Return to your post." The arm disappeared again.
To-day, too, he had worked in his cabinet until evening, and he had only just now dismissed his two private secretaries, Heinle and Hubschle. This was the hour at which Thugut was in the habit of repairing either to the emperor or to his gardens in the Wahringer Street. His valet de chambre, therefore, awaited him in the dressing-room, and his carriage was in readiness below in the court- yard.
He then rang the bell so violently and loudly, that Heinle and the other servants rushed immediately into the room. "Open every door call every footman!" commanded Thugut. "Admit every one who wants to see me. Two mounted messengers shall hold themselves in readiness to forward dispatches.
Why, you are a genuine postillon d' amour! Do you bring me another letter?" "A third dispatch from General Bernadotte," exclaimed Heinle, outside, pushing his arm with the dispatch again through the door. Thugut took it and rapidly opened it. "It seems matters are growing more pressing," he said, smilingly. "Let us read it!"
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