"Besides, it's English, and I pass readily for an Englishman.
I have quite got used to it." "Which is not particularly creditable; but it's probably just as well so." He drew closer to the table, and his keen old eyes snapped with the intentness of his thought.

The hands he clasped on the table were those of age, and it was pathetically evident that he folded them to hide their slight palsy.
"I hope you are quite well," said Armitage kindly.
"I am not.

I am anything but well.

I am an old man, and I have had no rest for twenty years." "It is the penalty of greatness.

It is Austria's good fortune that you have devoted yourself to the affairs of government.