These Rousseaus and Voltaires have a certain amount of education, but they lack daring.

If a man like Hillars, who had not only brains but daring, should get mixed up in one of these embroglios, some blood would be spilled before the trouble became adjusted.

Still, Hillars, with all his love of adventure, was not ordinarily reckless.

Yet, if he met the Princess, she would find a willing tool in him for her slightest caprice.
Whatever happened the brunt would fall upon him.

My opinion, formed from various stories I had heard of the Princess, was not very flattering to her.