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Updated: April 30, 2025
You look exceedingly pale and exhausted, my dear count, and if I may take the liberty of giving you a friendly advice, please go to bed and send for your physician." "You are right, excellency," replied Count Saurau, smiling, "I really feel sick and exhausted.
"Your excellency," interrupted Count Saurau, with a mysterious air, "I called upon you to-day for the purpose of speaking to you about the empress, and of cautioning you against " "Cautioning me?" exclaimed Thugut, with proud disdain. "What is the matter, then?"
"Your excellency," he said, timidly, "Counts Colloredo, Saurau, and Lehrbach have just arrived, and desire to obtain an interview with your excellency." Not a muscle moved in Thugut's face to betray his surprise, and he ordered the servant in a perfectly calm voice to admit the gentlemen immediately. He then hastily walked to the door for the purpose of meeting them.
"And as far as your official position is concerned, I pray you to forget it for half an hour, and remember only that I have the honor of seeing you a rare guest at my table. Let me beg you to take some of that fowl; it is really delicious!" Count Saurau, heaving a loud sigh, took a piece of the fowl which Germain presented to him, and laid it on the silver plate that stood before him.
"And you are an excellent pointer for me. You scent such things on the spot," Count Thugut exclaimed, and broke out into a loud burst of laughter. Count Saurau laughed also, and took good care not to betray how cruelly the joke had wounded his aristocratic pride.
"Cowards!" muttered Thugut, while walking to his chair at the upper end of the table and beckoning Count Saurau to take a seat at his side. At this moment, however, the door was hastily opened, and the steward, pale and with distorted features, rushed into the room. "Excuse me, your excellency," said he, "but this time they are assuredly in earnest.
"The empress," continued Saurau, "has received the ambassadors also; she even had two interviews already with the minister of the French Republic, General Bernadotte." Thugut suddenly became quite attentive, and fixed his small, piercing eyes upon the police minister with an expression of intense suspense. "Two interviews?" he asked.
When the rioters beheld him, they turned even paler than before; now they thought that every thing was lost, and gave way to the most gloomy forebodings. Count Saurau beckoned the chief to enter; the latter had a paper in his right hand. "Your report," said the count, rather harshly. "How was it possible that this riot could occur?
"But in that case, there will be another terrible hue and cry about the infringement of the rights of the holy German empire," said Count Saurau, smiling; "Prussia will have a new opportunity of playing the defender of the German fatherland." "My dear count, never mind the bombastic nonsense in which Prussia is going to indulge we shall take good care that nothing comes of it.
"And Moreau has already crossed the Inn and is now advancing upon Vienna," said Count Lehrbach, with a sneer. "You have made some terrible mistakes in your hopes of victory, minister." "Yes, indeed, you have made some terrible mistakes, my dear little baron," said Count Saurau, laying particular stress on the last words. Thugut fixed a laughing look on him.
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