If they are here on private concerns which in no wise touch Ehrenstein, it would be foolhardy to declare war.

Your highness is always letting your personal wounds blur your eyesight.

Some day you will find that Jugendheit is innocent." "God hasten the day and hour!" "Yes, let us hope that the mystery of it all will be cleared up.

You are just and patient in everything but this." Herbeck idled with his quill.
The little finger of his right hand was badly scarred, the mutilation of a fencing-bout in his student days.
"What do you advise ?" wearily.

It seemed to the duke that Herbeck of late never agreed with him.
"My advice is to wait.