Some Experiences in Hungary

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Excerpt from Some Experiences in Hungary: August 1914 to January 1915The fateful month of August, 1914, found me installed as companion to the two daughters of a Hungarian magnate who resided in the vicinity of Pressburg. I had been treated precisely as one of the family, nor did the unexpected outbreak of war with Great Britain make any difference in their attitude towards an "enemy alien." Lord Byron used to say that he had an infallible method of ascertaining the social status of strangers presented to him. Gentlemen looked him straight in the face, while others instinctively glanced at his deformed foot! Judged by similar standards, the Hungarians with whom I came into contact after the declaration of war were immeasurably superior in point of good breeding to their German oppressors. The whole family at K, from the Prince and Princess down to the humblest domestic in their employ, endeavoured to make me forget the extreme unpleasantness of my position, and although I never made any secret of my opinions, they discussed the vicissitudes of the war with pathetic frankness in my presence. I had further opportunities of gauging the sentiments of the heterogeneous nationalities which own allegiance to the House of Habsburg when a stream of wounded soldiers poured into K - after the first Russian invasion of Galicia.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.