If there be justice in God we shall conquer.

But there will be joy no more for such as you or me, nor hope, nor any peace.
We live only for those who come after.

Our duty remains, all else is dead.

You did well to go, and I do well to stay.
"By all these piteous relations you shall know the importance of the request I now set forth.
"My cousin by marriage of the House of Vaufontaine has lost all his sons.

With the death of the Prince of Vaufontaine, there is in France no direct heir to the house, nor can it, by the law, revert to my house or my heirs.