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Summer Sojourn in Switzerland -- My Husband's Researches in the History of the Geneva Convention, and in International Law -- Seclusion and Mourning -- Visit to Vienna -- Frederick Enters a New Army, the Army of Peace -- Visit to Berlin -- On Our Way We Visit the Battlefield of Sadowa on All Souls' Day -- The Emperor as a Mourner -- Aunt Cornelia: Her Grief and the Consolations of Religion -- The Army Chaplain -- A Military-Theological Discussion -- We Are Summoned to Aunt Mary's Deathbed -- Retired Life at Vienna -- Minister "To-Be-Sure" -- Political Talks -- Universal Liability to Serve.
We passed the remainder of the summer in the neighbourhood of Geneva. Dr. Bresser's powers of persuasion had at last succeeded in moving us to fly from the infected country. I at first strove against leaving so quickly the graves of my family, and, as I have said, I was filled with such a resignation to death that I had become wholly apathetic, and held every attempt at flight to be useless; but in spite of all this Bresser was certain to conquer when he represented to me that it was my maternal duty to carry little Rudolf out of the way of danger as well as I could.