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There seems no authority for the statement that the Bismarcks had sprung from a noble Bohemian family.
It is to this visit that a well-known anecdote refers; having landed at Hull one Sunday morning, he was walking along the streets whistling, when a chance acquaintance of the voyage asked him to desist. Disgusted, he left the town. The story, as generally told, says that he went to Edinburgh; we can have no doubt that Scarborough was meant.
Life of Herr v. Thadden-Triglaff, by Eleanor, Princess of Reuss.
This trait is confirmed by Busch, who in his record of the conversations of Bismarck observes that with one or two exceptions he seldom had a good word to say for his colleagues.