The frown vanished from his face, and he spoke in his usual bantering tone.
"By the way," said he, "perhaps we're letting our feelings run away with us.

Have you more of a mind now to be King of Ruritania?
If so, I'm ready to be the most faithful of your subjects." "You honor me, Count." "Provided, of course, that I'm one of the most favored and the richest.
Come, come, the fool is dead now; he lived like a fool and he died like a fool.

The place is empty.

A dead man has no rights and suffers no wrongs.

Damn it, that's good law, isn't it?
Take his place and his wife.
You can pay my price then.