text:  In Prague therefore Stein remained in company with Justus Eumer the banished Elector of Hesse-Cassel Karl von Nostez and many French emigrants as it were in a secret-burning focus and hidden metropolis of anti-Gallican spirit [18] for a few years waiting not patiently but in his fashion with extreme impatience for the coming of the great day of political retribution in which he believed as firmly as in God and in the last judgment