. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. e answer in Paris, as well as the returnof the King to Berlin, before I set out, for certainty is now a ne- 328 EEC ALL TO BERLIN. cessity, or I shall send in my resignation. At this moment I amnot in a state to decide; I will first take a walk, and perhaps Ishall get an idea what to do. I wonder my letters have notreached you regularly. The longest interval I have ever allow-ed was four days between my last letter, from Luchon and thelast but one from Bayonne, because we were riding every dayfrom morning till night, eating or sleeping, and paper
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. e answer in Paris, as well as the returnof the King to Berlin, before I set out, for certainty is now a ne- 328 EEC ALL TO BERLIN. cessity, or I shall send in my resignation. At this moment I amnot in a state to decide; I will first take a walk, and perhaps Ishall get an idea what to do. I wonder my letters have notreached you regularly. The longest interval I have ever allow-ed was four days between my last letter, from Luchon and thelast but one from Bayonne, because we were riding every dayfrom morning till night, eating or sleeping, and paper was notalways at hand. Yesterday was a rainy day, fitted for railwaytravelling, bringing us from Montrejeau to this place—new andbad, a flat country with vines and meadows. I am now writingto and . If possible, I shall remain in Paris. With these letters the Apprentice and Journeyman years ofBismarck are at an end; the next few days conducted him fromAvignon to Berlin, to prove his Mastership. look tlje liftl). MINISTER-PRESIDENT AND The Crisis of 1862.—Bismarck Premier.—The Party of Progress.—The Liberals.—The§H Conservatives. — Bismarcks Determination.— Voila mon Medecin .—Anecdotes. —Attitude of the Government.—Refusal of theBudget. — Prudence of the Minister-Presi-dent.—Official Presentation of Letters of Re-call at Saint Cloud. Twin-born with the active, restless lifeand labor so typical of our modern days,with the rapid course of political events,we note the natural sisterhood of swift 332 THE CEISIS. forgetfulness. Most of us would have some difficulty in formingany thing like a clear picture of the decidedly involved situationin which Prussia stood in the autumn of 1862. It is beside ourpurpose to attempt any definition of this situation here, withouttaking into consideration the difficulties surrounding the solutionof such a problem at that time; we must, therefore, content our-selves with cursory hints and indications. The Liberal Min
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