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A Diplomatic Adventure, by S. Weir Mitchell 1 A Diplomatic Adventure, by S. Weir Mitchell The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Diplomatic Adventure, by S. Weir Mitchell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: A Diplomatic Adventure Author: S. Weir Mitchell Release Date: December 2, 2009 [EBook #30585] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DIPLOMATIC ADVENTURE ***. | A Diplomatic Adventure by S. Weir Mitchell 1 A Diplomatic Adventure by S. Weir Mitchell The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Diplomatic Adventure by S. Weir Mitchell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A Diplomatic Adventure Author S. Weir Mitchell Release Date December 2 2009 EBook 30585 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DIPLOMATIC ADVENTURE Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive A Diplomatic Adventure by S. Weir Mitchell A DIPLOMATIC ADVENTURE 2 BY S. WEIR MITCHELL . . NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1906 Copyright 1906 by THE CENTURY CO. Published April 1906 THE DE VINNE PRESS Illustration She was in an agony of alarm. A DIPLOMATIC ADVENTURE I No man has ever been able to write the history of the greater years of a nation so as to include the minor incidents of interest. They pass unnoted although in some cases they may have had values influential in determining the course of events. It chanced that I myself was an actor in one of these lesser incidents when second secretary to our legation in France during the summer of 1862. I may possibly overestimate the ultimate importance of my adventure for Mr. Adams our minister of the court of St. James seems to have failed to record it or at least there is no allusion to it in his biography. In the perplexing tangle of the diplomacy of the darker days of our civil war many strange stories must have passed unrecorded but surely none of those remembered and written were more singular than the occurrences which disturbed the quiet of my uneventful official life in the autumn of 1862. At this time I had been in the legation