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The only question is to inspire it with courage and constantly to fan its enthusiasm. That will be the only task of the police to-morrow." "And they will fulfil that task with the utmost cheerfulness. I shall to-morrow " "As far as you are concerned," said Thugut, interrupting him, "it seems to me you will be unfortunately prevented from participating in the patriotic festival to-morrow.
"But we don't want to be ruined!" shouted the crowd "we don't want to be led to the shambles like sheep. No, no; we want peace peace with France. Prime Minister Thugut shall give us peace with France!" "You had better go and inform the proud minister himself of what you want," said the speaker with a sneer.
"You are the aulic councillor, Johannes Muller?" asked Thugut, after a short pause, in a somewhat harsh voice. "Yes, I am Johannes Muller," said the latter, and the smile had already returned to his lips. "I thank your excellency for this salutary question." "What do you mean by that, sir?" asked Thugut, wonderingly. "Why do you call my question salutary?"
"Pardon me, your excellency; I admire your heroic equanimity, but I am unable to imitate it. It is an utter impossibility for me to sit here calmly and passively, while a gang of criminals is bold enough to break into your house!" "I beg your pardon, count; these people did not break into my house, but I voluntarily opened the door to admit them," said Baron Thugut, coolly.
Go, now, and return soon to tell me all about it." "And now," said Thugut, when he was alone, "I will see what the French ambassador has written to me."
I accompany the prince to Vienna because he wants to get there instructions from Baron Thugut and learn what is to be done at Rastadt." "Ah, at Rastadt at the peace congress," exclaimed Gentz. "The emperor has requested the states of the empire to send plenipotentiaries to Rastadt to negotiate there with France a just and equitable peace.
The ambassador, who cannot remain any longer in a country where the most sacred laws are disregarded and solemn treaties trampled under foot, therefore asks Baron Thugut to send him his passports in order that he may repair to France with all the attaches of the embassy, unless Baron Thugut should announce at once that the Austrian government has taken no part whatever in the insults heaped upon the French Republic; that it disavows them, on the contrary, in the most formal manner, and that it orders the ringleaders and their accomplices to be arrested and punished in the most summary manner.
"You are worthy of being much more, dearest, for you are a demon of love; but my wife ought only to be a matron of chastity." "Oh, how tiresome!" sighed Victoria. "Yes, how tiresome!" repeated Thugut. "And our own heavenly liaison, the last romantic dream of my life, would it not also be broken off if you were to become my wife?
His father, a clever man, brought up in the old diplomatic school of Thugut and Kaunitz, had early accustomed him to the task of making other Governments believe, by means of agents, what might lead them into error and tend to the advantage of his own Government.
"Ah, a regular battle, then, has taken place!" shouted Thugut, in great glee. "A siege in grand style! Wonder why Hubschle has not come back yet? But stop! I hear him already. He raps! I am coming, sir! I am opening the door already!" And Thugut hastened to touch the frame of the painting and to open the door. It was true, Hubschle, the private secretary, was there, but he did not come alone.
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