And let us live in perpetual amity on that footing.

And, note only furthermore, when our Line fails, the whole of these fine Duchies shall be yours: if your Line fail, ours." That was the plain bargain, done solemnly in 1624, and again more solemnly and brought to parchment with signature in 1666, as Friedrich Wilhelm knows too well.

And now the very case is about to occur; this old man, childless at seventy, is the last of the Neuburgs.

May not one reasonably pretend that a bargain should be kept?
"Tush," answers old Karl Philip always: "Bargain ?" And will not hear reason against himself on the subject; not even when the Kaiser asks him,--as the Kaiser really did, after that Wusterhausen Treaty, but could get only negatives.

Karl Philip has no romantic ideas of justice, or of old parchments tying up a man.