No one had heart for new ventures.
Hundreds of ties, woven out of mutual interest, and having endured for years, were snapped at once.

Each individual existence became more insecure, isolated, and poor.

On all sides were anxious faces and furrowed brows.

The country was out of health; money, the vital blood of business, circulated slowly from one part of the great body to the other--the rich fearing to lose, the poor becoming unable to win.

The future was overcast all at once, like the summer sky by a heavy storm.
That word of terror, "Revolution in Poland!" was not without serious effects in Germany.