Though it seems young by comparison with men of a great age like me, yet it's some way through life for all that; and the mere fools and fiddlers are beginning to grow weary and to look old.

Yes, sir, by six-and-thirty, if a man be a follower of God's laws, he should have made himself a home and a good name to live by; he should have got a wife and a blessing on his marriage; and his works, as the Word says, should begin to follow him.' 'Ah, well, the Prince is married,' cried Fritz, with a coarse burst of laughter.
'That seems to entertain you, sir,' said Otto.
'Ay,' said the young boor.

'Did you not know that?
I thought all Europe knew it!' And he added a pantomime of a nature to explain his accusation to the dullest.
'Ah, sir,' said Mr.Gottesheim, 'it is very plain that you are not from hereabouts! But the truth is, that the whole princely family and Court are rips and rascals, not one to mend another.

They live, sir, in idleness and--what most commonly follows it--corruption.

The Princess has a lover--a Baron, as he calls himself, from East Prussia; and the Prince is so little of a man, sir, that he holds the candle.