"Our people," cried Karl Mueller, "is still too lazy because it is too wealthy.

Let us learn, as the Russians did, to go round and burn, and then find ourselves dagger and poison, as the Spaniards did.

Against those two peoples Napoleon's troops could effect nothing." And while gloom and doubt hung over Germany, a cheering ray shot forth once more from the south-west.

At the close of June came the news that Wellington had utterly routed the French at Vittoria.
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