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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.
Should Frederick unhappily defeat us, not only Germany, but all Europe will cry out against the greed and injustice of ambitious Austria." "I do not wish to expose myself to this contingency," replied the empress. "I must have peace with God, the world, and my conscience, and you must come to my assistance, Thugut." An ironical smile played over Thugut's face.
She added, however, she feared lest, even if the memorial should convince herself of the inexpediency of Baron Thugut's policy, it might be difficult if not impossible to induce the emperor to take a similar view of the matter his majesty reposing implicit confidence in his prime minister and being perfectly satisfied of your excellency's fidelity, honesty, and incorruptibility.
The prudent men among them will be warned by his fate, and hereafter hold their tongues; the stupid and audacious fellows, however, will raise an outcry about the occurrence, and thus give us a chance to get hold of them likewise. Only after Thugut's overthrow in 1801 was he allowed to return to Austria and Vienna.
Baron Thugut's prediction had been verified, therefore; the police minister had really been taken so sick that he had to keep his bed, and that he had requested Baron Thugut by letter to take charge of his department for a few days. But the prime minister himself had suddenly become quite unwell, and was unable to leave his room!
"Just listen how the fellows are roaring my name, as if it were the refrain of some rollicking beer-song!" "Why, it is a regular riot!" exclaimed the police minister, angrily. "Your excellency will permit me to withdraw " He left the window hastily, and took his hat, but Thugut's vigorous hand kept him back. "Where are you going, count?" said he, smiling. "To the governor of Vienna," said Saurau.
The emperor desires you to be kind enough to call every day upon me in order to consider with me the affairs of the day, and there, accidentally of course, you will meet his majesty, who wants to obtain the advice of your experience and wisdom. You will remain minister, but incognito." A flash of joy burst forth from Thugut's eyes, but he quickly suppressed it again.
Amidst the disasters of 1797 he seemed the only man able to retrieve the past, and to be shut out from command by Thugut's insane jealousy of his "transcendent abilities."
"A very patriotic festival, and the inauguration of the banner particularly will be a glorious affair!" exclaimed Count Saurau. "What a pity that my sickness should prevent me from attending it!" He saluted the prime minister once more and withdrew. When the door had closed behind him the smile disappeared from Thugut's features, and a gloomy cloud settled on his brow.
The imperial court, stupefied by the late discomfiture in Italy, instead of regarding the proposals of the wily Frenchman as a confession of embarrassment, and of assailing him with redoubled vigor, acceded to them, and, on the 18th of April, Count Cobenzl, Thugut's successor, concluded the preliminaries of peace at Leoben, by which the French, besides being liberated from their dangerous position, were recognized as victors.
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