Besides, he is wasting time with Cordula.

Her worldliness repels Eva, it is true, but I have heard many pleasant things about her.

Alas! she is a motherless girl, and her father is an old reveller and huntsman, who rejoices whenever she does any audacious act.

But he keeps his purse open to her, and she is kind-hearted and obliging to a degree----" "Equalled by few," interrupted Wolff, with a sneer.

"The men know how to praise her for it.