Ten years near the German frontier Author:Maurice Francis Egan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE KAISER AND THE KING OF ENGLAND It was pleasant to renew old memories among diplomatists and ex-diplomatists in Copenhagen. I remembered the... more » old days in Washington, when Sir Edward Thornton's house was far up-town, when the rows between the Chileans and Peruvians—I forget to which party the amiable Ibaiiez belonged—convulsed the coteries that gathered at Mrs. Dahlgren's, when Bodisco and Aristarchi Bey and Baron de Santa Ana were more than names, and the Hegermann Lindencronesl were the handsomest couple in Washington. So it was agreeable to find some colleagues with whom one had reminiscences in common. Then there were the Americans married to members of the corps. Lady Johnston, wife of Sir Alan; Madame de Riano, married to one of the most well-balanced and efficient diplomatists in Europe. These ladies made the way of my wife and my daughters very easy. An envoy arriving at a new post has one consolation, not an unmitigatedly agreeable one. He is sure of knowing what his colleagues think of him. And for a while they weigh him very carefully. The American can seldom shirk the direct question: "Is this your first post?" It required great strength of mind not to say: "I had a special mission to the Indian Reservalions, and I have always been, more or less, you know " 1 Madame Hegermann Lindencrone is the author of "In the Court of Memory" and "The Sunn7 Side of Diplomatic Life." "Ah, I see! Calcutta, Bombay !" "Not exactly—Red Lake, you know—the Reservations, wards of our Government." "Oh, red Indians! I was not aware that you had diplomatic relations with the old red Indian princes. But this is your first post in Europe?" You can not avoid that. However, the longer one is at a post, the more he enjoys it. In the course of nearly eleven years...« less