This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... only understand the views of our Government as they were described in the Protocol. You could not read in their hearts the secret intention of acting contrary to them. If you had expressed a suspicion of such an intention (for which perhaps there was some ground), what would they have said? As to the complaint of your having stipulated for the fulfilment of the terms agreed upon by the allies with respect to Greece, I cannot conceive anything more unfounded. It surely was natural that you should do so; nay, more, it might perhaps have been a much more just cause of reproach if you had not. And, after all, how is it possible for any man in his senses to feel injured by your stipulating that the terms which you had agreed upon with him to propose should be taken as the basis of an arrangement the details of which were left to be settled with his concurrence? LXXXVII Matuscevitz is taking this letter, my dear Alexander, and this fact will almost dispense with the need of writing it. If he still bears me in mind when he gets to Petersburg he will be able to tell you more about me than I can convey in a 1 See Correspondence of Princess Lieven and Earl Grey, i. 335. 1 The Scotch are noted for their dissimulaifoTT, (Note by Princess Lieven.) letter. He has been spending the last ten months here, and throughout his stay, from his arrival to his departure, we have treated him with the fullest confidence and friendliness. He owed his reception to the recommendations he brought with him, but it is to himself alone that he owes the maintenance of such good will. His attitude has been irreproachable towards my husband, who cannot speak too highly in his praise, although the temptations of amour-propre cannot have been wanting. The public here have..