"However, there it is, and dead he is, and there's an end of it.

What's your business, play-actor ?" At the repetition of this last word, to her so mysterious, the girl outside pressed her eyes more eagerly to the chink and strained her ears to listen more sedulously.

And what did the count mean by the "other one" and "a heavenly crown"?
"Why not call me king ?" asked Rudolf.
"They call you that in Strelsau ?" "Those that know I'm here." "And they are-- ?" "Some few score." "And thus," said Rupert, waving an arm towards the window, "the town is quiet and the flags fly ?" "You've been waiting to see them lowered ?" "A man likes to have some notice taken of what he has done," Rupert complained.

"However, I can get them lowered when I will." "By telling your news?
Would that be good for yourself ?" "Forgive me--not that way.

Since the king has two lives, it is but in nature that he should have two deaths." "And when he has undergone the second ?" "I shall live at peace, my friend, on a certain source of income that I possess." He tapped his breast-pocket with a slight, defiant laugh.