This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...for such a step, Francis Joseph had far too great an idea as to his own importance even to think of giving Catherine this proof of the affection with which he professed she had always inspired him. He" never forgot that he was a Habsburg, and the head of that illustrious House, and though he had given consent to many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...for such a step, Francis Joseph had far too great an idea as to his own importance even to think of giving Catherine this proof of the affection with which he professed she had always inspired him. He" never forgot that he was a Habsburg, and the head of that illustrious House, and though he had given consent to many members of his family to contract morganatic unions, the possibility of his following their example never crossed his mind for a single instant. It is very much to be questioned whether Frau Schratt would ever have consented to become the wife of the Sovereign to whom more than twenty years of friendship had bound her with such strong fetters that no marriage ceremony could have made them tighter. She was a very independent woman, and was far too clever not to realise that such a change in her position was far more likely to prove a burden to her than to add anything to her prestige. She liked her liberty, and the fact of her clinging to it gave her a far stronger hold on the mind, and on what existed of heart, of the selfish Francis Joseph than she could have obtained by accepting what he would have persisted to the end of his days in calling the greatest sacrifice he had ever been compelled to make. Her influence over him was principally built upon the circumstance that she could tell him continually that, whilst he had never done anything for her except giving her plenty of money--which she could easily have done without--she had given up her whole life to him and to his welfare, and had thus shown that she cared for him more than for anything or anybody else in the world. A Int. nf amusing nnppdnfos rirpiilafp in Vienna COn CgrnJDg Frau Schratt, more or less true, and justifying the French proverb that it is only very rich people who f...
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