12/40 Do you fancy the Emperor guards my daughter so ill that you, single-handed, can take her from beneath his hand ?" "Your Highness, I shall choose some tried friends to help me." "There is no single chance of success. I ask you to forget it and to pass your Christmas here as my very good friend. The sight is longer in age, Mr.Warner, than in youth, and I see far enough now to know that the days of Don Quixote are dead. Here is a matter where all Europe is ranged and alert on one side or the other. You cannot practise secrecy. |