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He informed his master that the police minister, Count Saurau, wished to see him. Baron Thugut ordered him to be admitted at once, and went to meet him as soon as he heard him come in. "You anticipate my wishes, my dear count," he said. "I was just going to send for you." "Your excellency knows that I am always ready to obey your calls," replied Count Saurau, politely.
The prime minister, Baron von Thugut, was in his cabinet, in eager consultation with the new police minister, Count von Saurau, who had given him an account of the safe removal of the imperial state treasure which, like the emperor and the empress, had set out for Hungary. "All right! all right!" said Thugut, with a sinister chuckle.
"I beg you, my dear count," said Thugut, turning to Count Saurau, "let me have my way in this matter, and treat these men in a spirit of hospitality. I have opened them the doors of my palace and admitted them into my presence, and it would be ungenerous not to let them depart again.
Count Saurau shrugged his shoulders. "I confess I am unable to divine " "Then you have not read the papers this morning?" asked Thugut, scornfully. "You have no idea of the infamous attack which an aristocratic newspaper scribbler has dared to make upon me, nay, upon the emperor himself?" "I confess that I do not understand what your excellency means," said Count Saurau, anxiously.
"I shall write immediately to his majesty the emperor and request him to permit me to withdraw from the service of the state without delay." Count Colloredo sighed mournfully; Count Saurau smiled, and Count Lehrbach laughed in Thugut's face with the mien of a hyena. "And do you know who will be your successor?" asked the latter.
Thugut took apparently no notice whatever of what was going on; his breakfast entirely absorbed him, and he devoted his whole attention to a large piece of the turkey, which he seemed to relish greatly. Count Saurau merely feigned to eat, and looked steadfastly at his plate, as he did not want the rioters to read in his eyes the furious wrath that filled his breast.
In order to save Vienna, there was but one course left to the archduke: he had to make proposals of peace." "Did he really do so?" asked Count Saurau, breathlessly. "He did. He sent two of our friends Count Meerveldt, and the Marquis de Gallo to Bonaparte's headquarters at Leoben, for the purpose of opening negotiations with him."
"Your excellency will permit me to render myself at once worthy of the praise you have kindly bestowed upon me," said the police minister, after a short pause. "I believe we have discovered another conspiracy here. True, it is only an embryo as yet, but it may grow into something if we give it the necessary time." "What is it, Saurau?" said Thugut, joyfully "tell me at once what it is!
"By the eternal, you are a great statesman, a sagacious ruler!" exclaimed Count Saurau, with the gushing enthusiasm of sincere admiration. "Men grow wise by listening to you, and happy and powerful by obeying you! I am entirely devoted to you full of affection and veneration and do not want to be any thing but your attentive and grateful pupil." "Be my friend," said Thugut.
He dares to call me 'his little count! His little count! Ah, I shall prove to this ship-builder's son one day that little Count Saurau is, after all, a greater man than our overbearing and conceited prime minister. But patience, patience! My day will come. And on that day I shall hurl little Thugut from his eminent position!"
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