Arnsberg, nothing that I can do will restore these wasted years.

But I offer you the portfolio." "I am only a broken man, your Highness; too old." "It is my will." Arnsberg bent his head in submission.
"As for you," said the duke to the Gipsy, "go, and if you ever step this side the frontier again you will be shot out of hand." He stopped again in front of Grumbach.

"I promised to have you shot in the morning.

That promise holds.

But a train leaves for Paris a little after midnight.