802 Ten Years of my Life. 



Knowing that the Queen on her way to Berlin would pass 

 Bonn, I was of course at tiie -station, where Professor Busch 

 accompanied me. Her Majesty was cheered enthusiastically 

 on her arrival. I showed her my certificate, and she was very 

 gracious, giving me her hand, and saying that we shoul'i meet 

 again soon. 



NeiSyt morning I was already, at seven o'clock a.m., in the 

 hospital, where other ladies also arrived, and we all dressed 

 wounds and assisted in the operation-room. 



At eleven o'clock I went with Mrs. von Loe to the Aula of 

 the University, where the Professors had invited the students 

 to a meeting. We two were the only ladies present in this 

 great gathering ; but I am glad that I was tliere, for I shall 

 never forget that scene. Several Professors addressed the 

 students in short speeches. Professor Busch, who was ex- 

 tremely popular with them, suggested th^ idea of forming a 

 corps to assist the wounded on the battle-field. His speech 

 and proposition were received with enthusiastic applause and 

 cheering by the hundreds of fine youths who are the flower of 

 the nation, and who were all ready to go. 



In the afternoon Professor Busch brought me the very wel- 

 come intelligence that he had been appointed Surgeon-General 

 of the 8th, the Rhenish, Army Corps, for now I was sure of 

 having the best opportunity of nursing my husband in case of 

 his being wounded. 



When I returned to Coblentz, in the evening of July 21, 1 

 found, with Felix, Corvin, who had arrived from London, and 

 stayed with us in our spare room. They had refused him a 

 through ticket to Cologne in London, believing that the French 

 would make the passage impossible. He was going with the 

 army as a w^ar correspondent for the ' New Free Press of 

 Vienna/ the ' Garten laube,' and some American and English 

 pa])ers. 



Next day my cousin. Princess Minna Salm-Salm, arrived 

 with her eldest son, Florentine, a boy of about seventeen, who 

 was still in the college, but entering the battalion of my hus- 

 band, the King having made him a lieutenant. Mrs. von Cor- 

 vin arrived at the same time from Hamburg. She had at- 

 tended there in the hospitals, and intended going to the field 

 also. 



It was then a busy, thrilling time, and there was no house, 



