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A keystone of empire, Francis Joseph of Austria
A keystone of empire, Francis Joseph of Austria
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Section 3attention, for this brave veteran of eighty-two now saw in the lad of seventeen his own youth rising up before him, as well as the ardent hope of the Imperial House he had served so long and loyally. With a deep inclination he grasped the Archduke's hand, and would have raised it to his withered lips, but, freeing himself, the young man threw his arms about the bent old form and embraced his commanding officer as had he been his own father, while the palest nicker of a smile passed over the imperturbable face of the aide-de-camp in attendance as he watched the conflicting emotions of his chief. Neither the Archduke nor the Field-Marshal spoke again until, walking side by side, they had reached the latter's quarters. Radetzky often declared afterwards that his had not at that period been a bed of roses, for he had the unprecedented and uncomfortable honor of numbering among his officers and generals not only the Archdukes Albrecht and Wilhelm, sons of the victor of Aspern, who had joined him at the beginning of the campaign, but alas! now also the apple of Archduchess Sophia's eye Archduchess Sophia who was feared throughout Austria her first-born, fashioned by her strong, clever hands to occupy the Dual Throne, and whose death she would never forgive. As for the young Archduke himself, he from the first moment took to active military life as a duck takes to water, and the highest-trained, longest-inured soldier of Radetzky's army did not endure privation with more content and more fortitude than he. On May 6th he received his baptism of fire at Santa Lucia, and bore himself throughout that fiercely fought battle in the splendid manner so fitly celebrated by the lines of Wernhart"Die Feuerprobe"of which I here give a copy for those who admire war-poetry. o B J OJ O Die Tro...
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Section 3attention, for this brave veteran of eighty-two now saw in the lad of seventeen his own youth rising up before him, as well as the ardent hope of the Imperial House he had served so long and loyally. With a deep inclination he grasped the Archduke's hand, and would have raised it to his withered lips, but, freeing himself, the young man threw his arms about the bent old form and embraced his commanding officer as had he been his own father, while the palest nicker of a smile passed over the imperturbable face of the aide-de-camp in attendance as he watched the conflicting emotions of his chief. Neither the Archduke nor the Field-Marshal spoke again until, walking side by side, they had reached the latter's quarters. Radetzky often declared afterwards that his had not at that period been a bed of roses, for he had the unprecedented and uncomfortable honor of numbering among his officers and generals not only the Archdukes Albrecht and Wilhelm, sons of the victor of Aspern, who had joined him at the beginning of the campaign, but alas! now also the apple of Archduchess Sophia's eye Archduchess Sophia who was feared throughout Austria her first-born, fashioned by her strong, clever hands to occupy the Dual Throne, and whose death she would never forgive. As for the young Archduke himself, he from the first moment took to active military life as a duck takes to water, and the highest-trained, longest-inured soldier of Radetzky's army did not endure privation with more content and more fortitude than he. On May 6th he received his baptism of fire at Santa Lucia, and bore himself throughout that fiercely fought battle in the splendid manner so fitly celebrated by the lines of Wernhart"Die Feuerprobe"of which I here give a copy for those who admire war-poetry. o B J OJ O Die Tro...