The softness of heart you show in this trouble seems in some strange way associated with the strength of heart which you have proved in dangers, the least of which none of us would have encountered willingly, and which, forced on us, would have unnerved us all.

I am glad to prove to you that to some extent I depart from my national character and approach, however, distantly, to yours.

I can feel for a friend's sorrow, and I can face what you seem to consider a real danger.

But you had a purpose in asking this audience.

My ears are open--your lips are unsealed." "Prince," I replied, "what you have said opens the way to that I wished to ask.