. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. COUNTESS VON BISMAKCK-SCHONUAUSEN. FOREBODINGS. 181. It is not necessary to say that Bismarck, in the happiness ofhis youthful marriage, had not forgotten his native land ; that hestill pursued the course of political events with keen appreciation,and could not omit to join in its most serious he sat in his libra-ry amidst his books andmaps, roved as a solitarysportsman through his pre-serves in field or wood,turned to agricultural pur-suits with the eye of a pro-prietor, or visited his neigh-bors in Jerichow or Katten-winke
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. COUNTESS VON BISMAKCK-SCHONUAUSEN. FOREBODINGS. 181. It is not necessary to say that Bismarck, in the happiness ofhis youthful marriage, had not forgotten his native land ; that hestill pursued the course of political events with keen appreciation,and could not omit to join in its most serious he sat in his libra-ry amidst his books andmaps, roved as a solitarysportsman through his pre-serves in field or wood,turned to agricultural pur-suits with the eye of a pro-prietor, or visited his neigh-bors in Jerichow or Katten-winkel, he felt an intuitiveperception of some great anddecisive event about tocome. Men so politicallyeminent as Bismarck even then was—although he had not, as yet, evinced it in public—bearwithin them a certain foreshadowing of coming events not to beunder-estimated. When the first news arrived of the revolution of February inParis, Bismarck knew for a fact that the signal for a strugglewith the Prussian Monarchy had there been given ; he perceivedthat the wave of revolution would pass over the
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