. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. flowers, and jew-els, bow slowly and then rise again ; it is as if the evening breezepassed gently over the meadow, the flowers all bending up anddown, hither and thither. King William is entering, conducted by the stately royal man bows with chivalrous politeness, now tothis lady, now to that; he pronounces kind words, which arereally more kind and fewer in number than is usually the he shakes hands with one general, there he nods to anothergentleman—the path by which the King has passed is markedby proud and hap
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. flowers, and jew-els, bow slowly and then rise again ; it is as if the evening breezepassed gently over the meadow, the flowers all bending up anddown, hither and thither. King William is entering, conducted by the stately royal man bows with chivalrous politeness, now tothis lady, now to that; he pronounces kind words, which arereally more kind and fewer in number than is usually the he shakes hands with one general, there he nods to anothergentleman—the path by which the King has passed is markedby proud and happy faces. Those who feel disposed to jeer, cannot in the least know how a Prussian feels when the Kings handtouches his own, and the Kings eye looks so grandly and mildlyinto his. But to enjoy a really heart-warming sight, King William andBismarck must be seen together. The great hero, Prince Eu-gene, or Eugenio von Savoye, as he wrote it in Italian, German,and French, once said of the three Emperors whom he had 28 434 ENTRANCE OE THE served-— Leopold was my father, Joseph my friend, Carl is mysovereign! In Bismarcks conduct towards the King may beseen the reverence for a father, the attachment of a friend, andthe fullest respect for a sovereign. An unique spectacle, this! Now the Queen passes through the brilliant throng, dressedwith royal simplicity ; she speaks with several of the members ofthe Eeichstag. When the sailing boat passes through the wavesof the sea, when the swan glides over the shining mirror, a silverline marks the passage they have taken. Such a line denotesthe path which the Queen had followed through the throng. The whole Eoyal House is present. The tall stately man yonder, with the brave handsome counte-nance, who looks still taller in his light blue dragoon uniformwith the yellow collar, in which he is not often seen, is the CrownPrince. He is enframed in animated conversation with a foreiarndiplomatist, in a golden full dress, and is evidently
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