Now there were maps of Europe after 1871 when the German Federation had been formed.
Now the brown of Germany sprawled everywhere from Russia to France with the acquisitions from the Treaty of Prague in a slightly lighter shade.
‘Brown is the right colour for Germany,’ Tilda thought. ‘It is a dull heavy country. At the same time rather sinister!’
There was something hard and autocratic about the Prussians but, although she had not seen a lot of the Bavarians, she found them different in every way.
They were a smiling people as she imagined that the Obernians would be.
It had been arranged before she left England on the extensive itinerary compiled for her by her father and mother that she should stay at the Linderhof for two nights before she crossed the border into Obernia.
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