I tell you, Luis, with all due respect for his Majesty as a general and a statesman, in a skirmish of intrigue this woman will outwit you all.

The schemes her aged brain invents have neither fault nor flaw.

The wheels work upon one another as they do in the Emperor's best Nuremberg clock.

I want to watch their turning before I go, for, be it known to you, early tomorrow morning--the saints be praised!--I start for Brussels." "Oh!" exclaimed Quijada with an expression of sincere regret; but the Queen gravely said: "There can be no further delay, Luis.

It may sound improbable that there is something which draws me back to the Netherlands more strongly than the desire for freedom of movement, a pleasant ride through the forest, and the excitement of the chase, which lends spice to the insipidity of my life, yet you may believe it." "Business matters ?" asked the nobleman anxiously.
The Queen nodded assent, and then eagerly continued: "And important ones which his Majesty himself solemnly enjoined upon me to hasten my departure.