This puts the minx entirely in my power; _le tour est joue_; she will now go steady in harness, or I will know the reason why.

Come.
HEINRICH.' 'Command yourself, madam,' said the Countess, watching with some alarm the white face of Seraphina.

'It is in vain for you to fight with Gondremark; he has more strings than mere court favour, and could bring you down to-morrow with a word.

I would not have betrayed him otherwise; but Heinrich is a man, and plays with all of you like marionnettes.

And now at least you see for what you sacrificed my Prince.