Aus. A gloomy business, truly.
Prus. ’t has wrought upon me.
(Re-enter Napoleon)
Lou. My lords, believe me grateful for your help
In this most wretched business.
(Enter Secretary)
Sec. A dispatch, sire, from Mexico.
Lou. We ’ll hear it.
All here should share this news with me.
Sec. ’T is short,
Your majesty.
Lou. The sooner read. We wait.
Sec. (Reads) ‘By order of Juarez, the Austrian duke, Ferdinand Maximilian, has been shot.’