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As the winter settled over Europe -- here with gloom and fog, there with bright keen frosts and dazzling snow -- the feeling of anxiety respecting affairs in the East slowly subsided. The general conviction was that Russia would not move against her hereditary Muslim enemy until the winter was over; for even hatred, sturdy weed though it may be, is killed by cold.
Theodore Trist, fresh from those mysterious Oriental lands which are so much more romantic from a distance, gave no opinion upon the matter, because he was a practical businessman, and fully aware of the market value of his observations.