"Will you not dine with me ?" he asked.
"Thanks.

But I have the Servian minister on my hands to-night.

A propos, tell the Colonel that I decline Belgrade.

I prefer to die at home." And he vanished.
Von Wallenstein reviewed the statements of both his visitors.
"I shall watch Monseigneur the archbishop." Then he added, with a half-smile: "God save us if the Marshal's sword were half so sharp as his tongue! It was careless of me to forget that I had shut him up in the cabinet." Meanwhile Beauvais walked slowly toward his quarters, with his saber caught up under his arm.

Once he turned and gazed at the palace, whose windows began to flash with light.
"Yes, they are puppets and jackals, and I am the lion.