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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Yes, Count Lehrbach's valet, in a drunken spree, betrayed his master's secret, so I learned the fine business, and could warn the envoys, could warn Lehrbach to take stronger precautions. It was my first trial, and it was well paid." "The poor envoys paid for it with their lives," she cried, shuddering. "That was their own fault. Why didn't they listen to my warning?
Truly, these anxious men actually went so far as to caution me against you." "And did not your excellency make any reply to them?" asked Count Lehrbach, laughing. "Parbleu, you ask me whether I have made a reply to them or not?" said Thugut. "I have always replied to those warning voices: 'I need not break Count Lehrbach's neck; he will attend to that himself.
We will let him move in early in the morning, but, in the course of the day, the emperor will do well to send him his dismissal, for Count Lehrbach is unworthy of being his majesty's minister of state. His hand is stained with the blood which was shed at Rastadt, and a minister's hand must be clean." "But whom shall we appoint minister in Lehrbach's place?"
"The first of these conditions is that Austria and France make peace without letting England participate in the negotiations." "And the second condition is beaming already on Count Lehrbach's forehead," said Thugut, calmly.
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