On no account would he come to Vienna, in spite of the efforts made by his advisers to persuade him to do so.
From certain remarks the Emperor let fall I gathered that the reason of this persistent refusal was anxiety concerning the health of the children.

He himself was so entirely free from pretensions that it cannot have been a question of his own comfort that prevented his coming.
The Emperor's desire to restore the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand to a post of command was for me a source of much unpleasantness.

The Archduke is said to have been to blame for the Luck failure.

I cannot judge whether wrongly--as the Emperor maintained--or rightly; but the fact remains that the public no longer had confidence in him.

Quite accidentally I learnt that his reinstatement was imminent.