This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II FROM MIRAMAR TO MEYERLING All now recognise the tragic life of the Emperor, all the more tragic because it lasted so long. How strange it seems to recall the fair and nimble lover who muffled his footsteps at dead of night to creep into an alcove. Strange and painful. I cannot bear to think ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II FROM MIRAMAR TO MEYERLING All now recognise the tragic life of the Emperor, all the more tragic because it lasted so long. How strange it seems to recall the fair and nimble lover who muffled his footsteps at dead of night to creep into an alcove. Strange and painful. I cannot bear to think of (Edipus in the garb of Paris. If his face was sad and solemn, let me pretend that it had been always so. But there was in the early years of Francis Joseph one fact among others which is very intimately related to the mysterious death of Archduke Rudolph. Without this fact nothing can be explained, and I am going to explain the death of Rudolph. Let us travel then from Miramar to Meyerling. But the way lies through Vienna and we must pause a while at the Hofburg. The Hofburg is the imperial castle, an enormous magniloquent edifice, proud of many epochs and in many styles, the Olympus of the Hapsburgs. What other dwellings can boast of a similar succession of occupants? Nor is there any clash of all those epochs and all those styles. A great hall full of thrones and baldaquins still proclaims loudly the Spanish magnificence of Charles V., while a graceful little boudoir with mirrors and twisted cornices reflects the gilded, somewhat tawdry graces of Marie Antoinette of Austria and her most unhappy spouse. There are stones that tell you nothing until you compel them to speak; but the imperial castle of Vienna has a soul of its own for every one of its thousand halls. As a boy I used to admire in one of the courts a monument of Francis II. because even after his death he still remained surrounded by his four wives, Elisabeth, Maria Theresa, Marie Louise and Augusta Caroline; and they had been turned into symbols, compelled that is to...
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