"I have seen you through a veil; I have not understood you." "If it concerned only me," she said, "willingly would I have suffered in silence, never would I have raised my voice against my sovereign.

But your sons must be thought of, Claes.

If you continue to dissipate your property, no matter how glorious the object you have in view the world will take little account of it, it will only blame you and yours.

But surely, it is enough for a man of your noble nature that his wife has shown him a danger he did not perceive.

We will talk of this no more," she cried, with a smile and a glance of coquetry.