[The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Goose Girl CHAPTER III 8/27
Is that not the way? Do we ever trust any one fully without being in the end deceived? Well, dead or alive," the duke continued, his throat swelling, "ten thousand crowns to him who brings Arnsberg to me, dead or alive." "He will never come back," said Herbeck. "Not if he is wise.
He was clever.
He sent all his fortune to Paris, so I found, and what I confiscated was nothing but his estate.
But do you believe me"-- putting a hand against his heart--"something here tells me that some day fate will drag him back and give him into my hands ?" "You are very bitter." "And have I not cause? Did not my wife die of a broken heart, and did I not become a broken man? You do not know all, Herbeck, not quite all. Franz also sought the hand of the Princess Sofia.
He, too, loved her, but I won.
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