But he loves her Highness, and the Carnavians are not fickle." The prelate and the statesman had different ideas in regard to the peasant girl.

To the prelate a woman was an unknown quantity, and he frowned.

The statesman, who had once been young, knew a deal about woman, and he smiled.
"Sometimes, my friends," said the king, "I can see beyond the human glance.

I hear the crumbling of walls.

But for that lonely child I could die in peace.