The stress of organizing and founding these great works is practically over.

As they are not only self-supporting, but largely productive, all anxiety in the way of national expenditure is minimized.
And, more than all, I am able to give my unhampered attention to those matters of even more than national importance on which the ultimate development, if not the immediate strength, of our country must depend.
I am well into the subject of a great Balkan Federation.

This, it turns out, has for long been the dream of Teuta's life, as also that of the present Archimandrite of Plazac, her father, who, since I last touched this journal, having taken on himself a Holy Life, was, by will of the Church, the Monks, and the People, appointed to that great office on the retirement of Petrof Vlastimir.
Such a Federation had long been in the air.

For myself, I had seen its inevitableness from the first.

The modern aggressions of the Dual Nation, interpreted by her past history with regard to Italy, pointed towards the necessity of such a protective measure.