You are really very clever, you know, but--I say it with respect--how comes it that you want so much waking up ?' 'Because I know the day is not so bright as it seems, my boy.

However, you make a little mistake.

If I care for anything on earth, I do care for that old fortress of my forefathers.

I respect so little among the living that all my reverence is for my own dead.

But manoeuvring, even for my own, as you call it, is not in my line.