Chapter 69 No.69

Bismarck refuses to pass under the yoke-the octogenarian's last struggle of ambition.

? He has his superstitions to the end; about the number 13, about the number 7; and he believes that the moon has power to make human hair grow. "It is best," he says, "not to make scoff of such matters."

? Sometimes he goes over his orders of honor, forty-e