But the others obviously held it so important that they sent home a report on it.

Someone must have written about it to Berlin, as a question from the late King arrived; he did not smoke himself and probably did not find the affair to his taste.

It required much consideration at the smaller Courts, and for quite half a year only the two great Powers smoked.

Then Schrenk, the Bavarian envoy, began to maintain the dignity of his position by smoking.

The Saxon Nostitz would doubtless have liked to begin too, but I suppose he had not yet received permission from his Minister.