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Honourable men ought, particularly at present, to unite for mutual consolation. Generous ideas and exalted sentiments become every day so rare that we ought to be too happy when we encounter them. I should be delighted if my society could prove agreeable to you, as also to M. Stapfer, to whom I beg you will convey my warmest thanks.
"You are wearing black. Is it Max?" The great, innocent blue eyes filled with tears. "Yes, it is Max." "Poor child!" A shiver passed over the girl. "And poor Max! When was it?" "Five months ago." "Five months ago? You can't mean that! Five months ago! Why wasn't I told?" "I hadn't your address." "Max had it." "I looked through all his papers and found nothing." "Herr Stapfer, my lawyer, had it."
After many searchings of heart, the new authorities decided to try their fortunes alone a response which must have been expected at Paris, where Stapfer had for months been urging the removal of the French forces. For the first time since the year 1798 Switzerland was therefore free to declare her will.
But he vas not avare that I knew from Herr Stapfer that you vere depr-riving yourself for me." "Oh, Hilda," cried Mrs. Carroll, in quick censure of the non-restitution that might have averted a life-time's self-reproach from Friedrich, "How could you keep it!"
Stapfer soon found that the real cause of delay was the non-completion of the cession of Valais, which Bonaparte urgently desired for the construction of a military road across the Simplon Pass; and as the Swiss refused this demand, matters remained at a standstill.
They had every reason for hope: the party then in power at Berne was that which favoured a centralized democracy, and their plenipotentiary in Paris, a thorough republican named Stapfer, had been led to hope that Switzerland would now be allowed to carve out its own destiny. What, then, was his surprise to find the First Consul increasingly enamoured of federalism.
"The whole of Europe would not make him give up a favourite scheme," wrote Stapfer on April 10th; "the possession of Valais is one of the matters closest to his heart."
Friedrich passed his hand over his face. "I can't understand it. You say Stapfer was in love with Hilda?" "And she made use of him, just as she did of Moller and von Hatfeldt and everybody else who came near her. She overreached herself about von Hillern, though." "It seems treachery to listen to you, von Sternburg." "Treachery! Why, my dear boy "
Napoleon had apparently viewed the late proceedings in Switzerland with mingled feelings of irritation and amused contempt. "Well, there you are once more in a Revolution" was his hasty comment to Stapfer at a diplomatic reception shortly after Easter; "try and get tired of all that."
He was certainly prepared for the events of September: many times he had quizzingly asked Stapfer how the constitution was faring, and he must have received with quiet amusement the solemn reply that there could be no doubt as to its brilliant success.
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