He did not disguise his chagrin; he had, he said, not been treated with the consideration which he deserved.

He had never been accustomed to hide his feelings or to disguise his opinions.

Nothing that his successors did seemed to him good.

They made a treaty with England for the arrangement of conflicting questions in Africa; men looked to Bismarck to hear what he would say before they formed their opinion; "I would never have signed the treaty," he declared.

He quickly drifted into formal opposition to the Government; he even made arrangements with one of the Hamburg papers that it should represent his opinions.