Affairs had a gloomy look; but war was averted for a while by the Convention of Gastein, by which the possession of Schleswig was assigned to Prussia, and Holstein to Austria; and further, in consideration of two and a half millions of dollars, the Emperor Francis Joseph ceded to King William all his rights of co-proprietorship in the Duchy of Lauenburg.

Chwastowski says Pani Celina ought to go to Gastein as soon as she can bear the journey.

Gastein is such a distance from Baku that it may be too far for Kromitzki to go.

Yesterday I received news from Gastein.

I went up to her and she told me her husband had just left her to look for Miss Hilst; and then, almost in one breath, asked me how my aunt was, whether Aniela was at the races, how the ladies would manage their journey to Gastein since Pani Celina could not walk, whether I thought Naughty Boy would win the race, and what we would do if he lost, and how many people had I invited to dinner.

But she did not look at me at all, and listened or seemed to listen attentively to what Kromitzki was telling my aunt he would do if Gastein belonged to him.

Thus I rested when I drew near Gastein.

Pani Celina's cure is completed, but we still remain at Gastein because of the great heat.

There is something in Gastein very health-giving.

The clouds which have been gathering on the summits, breeding snow and rain, have descended from the heights and enveloped Gastein as in a wet blanket.

When I entered into the compact I knew what I was doing and what shape our feeling would take; but now that shape seems to be getting more intangible and undefined, and wrapped up in a mist like that which enfolds Gastein.

Pani Celina insisted upon her taking the maid, at least, who had gone with them to Gastein.

Yet Kromitzki was with her at Ploszow; they were together in Vienna, and afterward in Gastein.

I see before me Aniela, as she appeared to me at Warsaw, as I saw her at Ploszow and Gastein; and I cannot tear myself away from the past.

When with some inward trouble I inquired after her health, she said, with her usual frankness, "After my return from Gastein I felt very well; but now everything seems to go wrong, and I feel that my time is coming.

I remember what he said about it at Gastein.

In an interview with the Austrian Foreign Secretary, Count Beust (Gastein, October 1871), he broached for the first time the question of an alliance and, touching upon the eventual dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, 'obligingly remarked that one could not conceive of a great power not making of its faculty for expansion a vital question'.

While a Franco-Russian alliance was propounded by Gorchakov in an interview with a French journalist, Bismarck and Andrassy signed in Gastein the treaty which allied Austria to Germany (September 1879).

THE TREATY OF GASTEIN, 1864-1865................... ...226 CHAPTER X. OUTBREAK OF WAR WITH AUSTRIA, 1865-1866................240 CHAPTER XI.

During the summer holidays, he was in almost constant attendance on the King, who as usual had gone to Gastein for a cure.

THE TREATY OF GASTEIN.

After these decisions were arrived at, the King continued his journey to Gastein to complete his cure; there, on Austrian territory in company with Bismarck, he awaited the answer.

A change of Ministry took place, and Count Blome, one of the new Ministers, was sent to Gastein.

The arrangement made at Gastein could not be permanent; it was only a temporary expedient to put off the conflict which henceforward was inevitableinevitable, that is, if the Emperor of Austria still refused to sell Holstein to Prussia.

This step was the more remarkable because Napoleon had received the news of the Treaty of Gastein with marked displeasure, and had given public expression to his opinions.