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Last Hours with the Beloved One -- Public Feeling in the Prospect of War -- The Parting -- Employments of the Women at Home -- Anxieties Over the News from the Seat of War -- Ill-Success of Austria -- Friends in Trouble -- The Patriotic Aid Association -- Visit to a Friend -- Dreadful News.
For a week I had been prepared for the catastrophe, and yet its occurrence gave me a bitter blow. I threw myself sobbing on the sofa, and hid my face in the cushion when Arno brought me the news.