Vienna Cor. London Newt
Is it not oat of all reason that I should be 111
just now? Botticheris a convalescent, Burob
ard is away, and I must keep to my bed. We
are getting old and sick, and dare not Mk to be
our own masters, and devote ourselves to the
cultivation of our garden or the care of our
own affair*. I cannot express how desirous I
am to get off for a few day* and rest, after
tho confusion and turmoil of my ovory day
Ufa. If I could have my own way I should
see no one for a whole year except
wife, children 7*nd grandchildren. We
ought to live for them by rights, and I am pre
vented from doing so all my life. Why, the
next thing is that some oounoeUor or other will
road me a report in the morning how some
members of mv family are after the night's
rest and then there will be so much time saved
again. The emperor is a brave old man, as we
could see in this iMt misfortune that has be
fallen him. Not one of us all bM the nerves of
the august old gentleman. I might say that as
long m work is demanded of him ha hu no
nerves at all. It is our lack that the emperer
never breaks down, that Moltke is all right,
and Kameke is up to anything. We
civilians are not much good. Something
is tho mattar with ns always, so that when
we grow old wo aro inceasantly on the
lookoat for an opportunity to get away. The
eternal wish for repose Becomes a sort of ail
ment, and I for ono cannot get rid of thia ail
ment, although I have plenty of othor suffur
ings to grumblo over. If ’my career had
stopped short of a councellor, I should have
left, my post long ngo. A* it is, I am con
demned to spend mvdays in theWilhelmstrasso,
tho street of all others that I have hated ninos
my youth. Ido not think I shall ever set foot
in tho roichstag again. I seo they got on
splondldlv without mo. Why, tho empire
machine is in flrat-cIMS working order, and
I am so glad there is no quarreling just now.
