My poor husband has had hardly a wink of sleep since the event, and the Premier is ill in bed through the worry." "Because of the loss of life ?" asked Jennie innocently.
"Oh, no, no! the loss of life wouldn't matter; it is the loss of the money that is the serious thing, and how they are going to replace it or account for its disappearance I am sure I don't know.

The deficiency is something over two hundred million florins.

Was it not awful ?" "Was the building shattered to such an extent ?" inquired Jennie, who did not stop to think that such a sum would replace any edifice in Vienna, even if it had been wiped off the face of the earth.
"The Treasury was damaged, of course, but the cost of repairs will not be great.

No, my child, it is a much more disturbing affair than the destruction of any state house in the Empire.

What has made the Premier ill, and what is worrying my poor husband into an untimely grave, is nothing less than the loss of the war chest." "The war chest!" echoed Jennie, "what is that ?" "My dear, every great nation has a war chest.