26/29 I submitted because I didn't care. "The devil will soon come to his own; ach!" "My compliments to him when you see him!" I called back, not to be outdone in the matter of courtesy. "For all these months not an hour has passed in which I have not cursed the folly of that moment. She did not love me, I know, but she would have been near me. And if the King had taken away her principality, she would have needed me in a thousand ways. |