description: I own that I was to blame, that I was hasty, cross-grained and aggressive ; and I shall never cease to regret it. But I had some reason, at the time it seemed to me that I had good reason, to be short-tempered. And if Perceval Ellis had recornized this and made allowances for my position—however, it is too late now to consider what might have happened in other circumstances and had we been different men. It was at Wittenberg on the Elbe, where we arrived on a close, thunderous afternoon, the sky low and black above us, that the trouble came to a head. We had left Iglau on the 18th of July, our departure hastened by the Armistice which laid Austria, the last independent power in Germany, at the feet of Napoleon. The hopes which Aspern had raised had been crushed on the heights of Wagram ; and for us Metternich had become inaccessible.
title: The Traveller in the Fur Cloak
titlecomplete: The Traveller in the Fur Cloak
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.