Afterward honoured with the title of captain." Full of honest amazement at such strength of memory, Wolf endeavoured to express his admiration; but the imperial general interrupted him with another question, "And the daughter?
Does her appearance harmonize with her voice ?" "I think so," replied Wolf in an embarrassed tone.
"Wonderfully beautiful and very aristocratic," said the baron, completing the sentence, and raising the tips of his slender fingers to his lips.
But this gesture seemed to displease his master, for he turned from him, and, looking the young Ratisbon knight keenly in the face, asked suspiciously, "She is full of caprices--I am probably right there also--and consequently refuses to sing ?" "Pardon me, your Majesty," replied Wolf eagerly.

"If I understand her feelings, she had hoped to earn your Majesty's approval, and when she received no other summons, nay, when your Majesty for the second time countermanded your wish to hear the boy choir, she feared that her art had found no favour in your Majesty's trained ears, and, wounded and disheartened--" "Nonsense!" the Emperor broke in wrathfully.

"The contrary is true.
The Queen of Hungary was commissioned to assure the supposed boy of my approval.

Tell her this, Sir Wolf Hartschwert, and do so at once.

Tell her--" "She rode to the forest with some friends," Wolf timidly ventured to interpose to save himself other orders impossible to execute.