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"Oh, don't speak to me of Austria. Perhaps I don't understand

things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war.

She is betraying us! Russia alone must save Europe. Our gracious

sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it.

That is the one thing I have faith in! Our good and wonderful

sovereign has to perform the noblest role on earth, and he is so

virtuous and noble that God will not forsake him. He will fulfill

his vocation and crush the hydra of revolution, which has become

more terrible than ever in the person of this murderer and

villain! We alone must avenge the blood of the just one.... Whom,

I ask you, can we rely on?... England with her commercial spirit

will not and cannot understand the Emperor Alexander's loftiness

of soul. She has refused to evacuate Malta. She wanted to find,

and still seeks, some secret motive in our actions. What answer

did Novosiltsev get? None.