"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister has arrived!"
With the attendant's announcement, the young emperor, seated at the desk near the window, finally put the quill pen dipped in ink back into the holder, turned his chair to face Prime Minister Felix Schwarzenberg.
Looking at the somewhat weary-looking young "cherubic" emperor before him, Felix Schwarzenberg bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty!"
The young emperor showed a serious expression, gesturing formally at the sofa beside him, "Prime Minister Felix, please have a seat."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Felix Schwarzenberg sat on the hard-backed sofa.
"Prime Minister Felix, is there something you wished to discuss with me?" The 19-year-old Franz Joseph, still unable to shed the vigor of youth and disliking political rhetoric, asked Felix Schwarzenberg directly.
"It's like this..." Prime Minister Felix Schwarzenberg first explained Bach's plan for the division of Hungary to Franz Joseph.
