Coming back to the war and the causes which had brought it about, Mr. Gladstone said: “We did everything that depended on us to prevent the fallen Government from plunging into this war with Germany. “We warned them, but they would not listen. “They absolutely wanted the war, and they engaged in it, but not without having been sufficiently warned, and well informed of the condition of the enemy they were about to provoke....” The reader will remember that the same thing had already been told me in Vienna, and I again make no comments. Nor will I comment on a very characteristic trait of Mr. Gladstone’s, which struck me most forcibly. As he rose and left the apartment with me, he said: “Have you from our conversation gathered any difference between my views and those of Lord Granville?” * * * * * I will here terminate this narrative. Should circumstances permit me I will take it up again later, in order to set down the events which followed during the months of December and January until the conclusion of peace. NOTE:--The sequel contemplated by the author was never completed. PRINTED BY THE DE LA MORE PRESS LTD. 32 GEORGE STREET, HANOVER SQUARE LONDON W Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. “armistice” was mostly printed that way, so occasional occurrences of “armstice” have been changed to match the prevailing spelling. Text uses “revictualling” and “re-victualling”, “_Gare d’Orléans_” and “_Gare d’Orleans_”; both forms retained. Page 16: Closing quotation mark added after “_Vive la France!_”. Page 30: “ineffacable” was printed that way. Page 129: Paragraph ending “we must have an armistice?” did not have a closing quote, but as it is unclear whether the author or someone else was speaking, the punctuation has not been changed here. Page 178: “_Hic Rhodos, hic salta!_” was printed that way, rather than as “Rhodus”. End of Project Gutenberg's A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870, by Frederic Reitlinger