Then, I presume, the question of invasion would come again.

All the time, of course, the gage would be flung down, treaties would be defied, we should be scorned as though we were a nation of weaklings.

Austria would gather in what she wanted, and there would be no one to interfere." Louise was very pale but her eyes were flashing fire.
"It is the most terrible thing which has happened in history," she said, "this decadence of your country.

Once England held the scales of justice for the world.

Now she is no longer strong enough, and there is none to take her place.