Florian
“He had resigned on account of fatigue and ill health. He wanted to end his last years in peaceful repose at his castle in the Croatian oak forest. After little more than a year and a half he flickered out like a burned-down candle. Thus did Franz Joseph’s servitors, exhausted and done in, step back one by one into obscurity; burned-down candles.
Franz Ferdinand figured out who of all the generals, ministers and courtiers of the Emperor lingered on. Only a very few, to be counted on the fingers ...of one hand. And they were all younger than Franz Joseph. Some of them had not yet been born when he ascended the throne; they had made their whole careers under his rule, become old men. He alone, Franz Joseph I, the Emperor, lived on, indefatigable, erect, fresh, brimming with the unbroken will of the suzerain.
Franz Ferdinand admired him even while he hated him. What a blessed life! At eighteen he had become Emperor. When other youths still sat on their school benches, Franz Joseph already had a boundless wealth of power in his boyish hands.MoreLess
Franz Ferdinand figured out who of all the generals, ministers and courtiers of the Emperor lingered on. Only a very few, to be counted on the fingers ...of one hand. And they were all younger than Franz Joseph. Some of them had not yet been born when he ascended the throne; they had made their whole careers under his rule, become old men. He alone, Franz Joseph I, the Emperor, lived on, indefatigable, erect, fresh, brimming with the unbroken will of the suzerain.
Franz Ferdinand admired him even while he hated him. What a blessed life! At eighteen he had become Emperor. When other youths still sat on their school benches, Franz Joseph already had a boundless wealth of power in his boyish hands.MoreLess
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