11/28 I am no longer a vintner, I am a king!" And he said this in a manner truly royal. "This boy has marrow in his bones, after all!" "As you will find, dear uncle, the day after the coronation. You will, of course, go down to them with me ?" "As I am your uncle! But the incarceration will not be long," Ludwig grumbled. "There are ten thousand troops on the other side of the passes, and they have been there ever since I learned that you had gone a-wooing." "Ten thousand? "I shall not begin my reign with war. |