The high altitude in Dreiberg had affected his heart.
However, in case there was no other available post, they would kindly appoint his successor at once.

Carmichael never faltered where his courage was concerned, and it needed a fine quality of moral courage to write this letter and enclose it in the diplomatic pouch which went into the mails that night.

It took courage indeed to face the matter squarely and resolutely, when there was the urging desire to linger on and on, indefinitely.

That she was not going to marry the king of Jugendheit did not alter his affairs in the least.

It was all hopeless, absurd, and impossible.