In fact, it was this: The revolution of Louis Napoleon of 1851 had resulted in the confiscation of many estates in France, all her own included.
As though by concert among the monarchies of Europe, the heavy hand of confiscation fell, in this nation and in that.

The thrones of the Old World are not supported by revolutionists; nor are revolutionists supported by the occupants of thrones.

Her Hungarian lands had followed those which she had owned in France.
The rents of her estates no longer could be collected.

Her revenues were absolutely gone.

Moreover, she herself was an exile.
[Illustration: She herself was an exile.] Thus, then, had her high-blown hopes come to an end.