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Оглавление“I am Count Wenceslas Steinbock, born at Prelia, in Livonia.
“No one is to be accused of my death; my reasons for killing
myself are, in the words of Kosciusko, Finis Polonioe! “The grand-nephew of a valiant General under Charles XII. could not beg. My weakly constitution forbids my taking military service, and I yesterday saw the last of the hundred thalers which I had brought with me from Dresden to Paris. I have left twenty-five francs in the drawer of this table to pay the rent I owe to the landlord. “My parents being dead, my death will affect nobody. I desire that my countrymen will not blame the French Government. I have never registered myself as a refugee, and I have asked for nothing; I have met none of my fellow-exiles; no one in Paris knows of my existence. “I am dying in Christian beliefs. May God forgive the last of the Steinbocks!
