I have never yet seen any proofs.

You have never yet produced them.

Show me something which absolutely convicts them, and I'll surrender." "On your honor ?" "My word." The grand duke struck the bell on the chancellor's desk.
"My secretary, and tell him to bring me the packet marked A.He will understand." The two men waited without speaking, each busy with thought.

The duke had been in his youth, and was still, a handsome man, splendidly set up, healthy and vigorous, keen mentally, and whatever stubbornness he possessed nicely balanced by common sense.

He might have been guilty in his youth of a few human peccadillos, but the kingly and princely excesses which at that time were making the east side of the Rhine the scandal of the world had in no wise sullied his name.