Now comes a very strongly military leaf. It bears the signatures Schwarzenberg, Benedek, FML., Fürstenberg, G. d. C., v. Wrangel, Field Marshal.[7] Alongside Wrangel’s name somebody (the insertion is not in Elvira’s hand) has inscribed the following brief dialogue reproducing the famous general’s wooing. It is well known that in spite of all his victories he never succeeded in conquering the dative and the accusative, and when he wanted to apply to the father of his intended for her hand the conversation in all probability developed itself thus: “Will you call me your son-in-law?” “I’m sorry, but I have none.” “Beg pardon—I meant to say, may I call you my father-in-law?” “Oh, you are married? I did not know that.”[8] There is furthermore inserted upon that military album-leaf a document which, as the knot that fastens it informs us, was given to my cousin by her “dear godfather Huyn.” It is a large folio page of official paper, with the following not uninteresting contents: K. K. Landesgeneralkommando in Verona. II. Sektion Nr. 1064 No. 24 To his Excellency, Royal and Imperial Chamberlain, Colonel, and Sub-Chief of Quartermaster General’s Staff, &c., &c., Johann Count Huyn The nature of the remodeling required for the defective embrasures in the Molinary and Hlavaty works must be determined by commission. As chairman of this commission is appointed Lieutenant Field Marshal Baron Stwrtnik, Director of Field Artillery of the 2d Army; and as members of it Your Excellency, Lieutenant Colonel von Swiatkiewicz of the General Staff, and Major Khünel of the 7th Regiment of Artillery. The time and place for the meeting of the commission are to be fixed by its chairman. Radetzky Verona, October 27, 1856 No. 34 Received at the Royal and Imperial Quartermaster General’s Staff Division of the 2d Army Verona, October 29, 1856 Benedek, FML. Despite remodeled cannon, despite the installation of the _k. k. Generalquartiermeisterstabsabteilung der 2. Armee_ in Verona, three years later this same Verona was to be Austrian no longer, and what befell this same Benedek ten years later on Bohemian battlefields we know. Confidence in the necessity and utility of remodeling cannon—just now it is howitzers—remains unshaken in military circles. Elvira and I, of course, felt the due reverential respect for these signatures of generals, and for the complicated technical expressions and complicated arrangements which meant our country’s fame and safety.