But, my child, the impetuosity of your passion is beginning to make me uneasy.

How will you keep your head clear, if your heart is burning with such impetuous fire that the rising smoke must becloud your brain?
I have allowed you to give yourself the amusement of love, but you must not make a serious life question of it." "Yet I shall either perish of this love or be new-born by it," she murmured.

"But let us not talk about it.

Tell me first why you left the ball so suddenly ?" "Urgent business, my child.

The emperor sent for me to come to Schoenbrunn." "The emperor! What did he want of you ?" "There is something to be discovered, Leonore--a murderer who seeks the emperor's life." "A murderer!" she said, shuddering; "my God, suppose it should be he!" "The emperor has received an anonymous letter from Hungary, in which he is informed that, during the course of the next week, a young man will come to Schoenbrunn to murder him.[D] I suppose that this comes directly from the Emperor Francis' court at Totis.