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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...they accepted beforehand all his stipulations. Yet yesterday I received a letter from him showing that all his efforts had been in vain, and that these gentlemen behaved towards him like men without honour. You know how moderate the Duke is in his language, and therefore you will believe that the case ...
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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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...they accepted beforehand all his stipulations. Yet yesterday I received a letter from him showing that all his efforts had been in vain, and that these gentlemen behaved towards him like men without honour. You know how moderate the Duke is in his language, and therefore you will believe that the case must have been a very hard one, indeed, if he speaks in that way. At the same time, everyone feels that he is the only man that could help our poor country out of the chaos. I have received from Monsieur Thiers several telegrams within these last days. He not only offers, with his usual courtesy, to place himself at my and my husband's disposal, but assures me that, should the Duke come to power, the Republic would be immediately acknowledged by France, and he believed by other Powers too." And while narrating me this underhand escapade of the shrewd little ruler of France, she handed me her almost microscopical note bearing the address: "Excelentisimo Senor Duque de la Torre," written in so fine and small a handwriting as only a Spanish lady is capable of. Yet notwithstanding my being armed with this little but highly effective pass, I had to give up all hopes of discovering the whereabouts of the Marshal when I reached Madrid. His most intimate friends seemed to have no idea where he could be. "If anyone knows anything positive," said one of them, "it can only be the old Countess de Montijo. But he is not with her, for her house was ransacked yesterday by an armed band." A few days later everyone knew that, with the aid of the English Minister, Mr. Layard, and of an English razor that shaved off the Marshal's moustachios, he had safely escaped to France. But in the first turmoil the fact was not generally...
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