Auban. "We have so missed you."
"I have been visiting some of the more remote parts of this
country," replied she in even tones.
"So, then, you have not forgotten our mission from Hungary! Well,
now we shall surely have the invitation for our Kossuth to come?
Is it not true?"
"Assuredly, my dear General. You will find this country eager to
meet him. But alas! I fear that Kossuth himself will find problems
also in this country."
"Our own problem--our cause, dear Countess?"
"Pardon, General, really it is also the cause of this country. We
think that in Hungary democracy is in peril. It is not less so
here."
"But, my dear child, you would not cast doubt upon our plans,--you
have not become lukewarm to our cause so soon, my dear?"
"No, no, General. But Europe does not understand America. America
does not understand herself. I ask only that the great men of that
country shall see the great problems of this. There we could win
freedom by sword and gun.
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