Auban looked over the journals of the day. There were many columns
of description of the only social event of the previous day thought
worth extended mention. The visitors from Hungary were lauded to
the skies. There did not lack many references to the similarity
between the present struggles of the Hungarian people and those of
our own earlier days. A vast amount of rampant Americanism was
crowded into all these matters.
[Illustration: She looked over the journals of the day.]
Joined to this, there was considerable mention of the reappearance
in Washington society of the beautiful Countess, Josephine St.
Auban, now discovered to have been originally a member of this
Hungarian commission, and recently journeying in the western states
of the republic. This beautiful countess was now invested with a
romantic history. She was a friend and protegee of the old General
Zewlinski, a foreign noblewoman half American by birth, of rank,
wealth and distinction, who had taken a leading part in the cause
of Hungary in her struggle with the oppressing monarchies.
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