"What a yarn for the papers!" his love of sensation being always close to the surface.

"Your father, you say, took four million crowns; what became of the fifth ?" "The duke was permitted to secure that." "A kind of court plaster for his wounds, eh?
Why don't you get that other million and run the kingdom yourself?
It's a great opportunity." Maurice laughed.
"Her Royal Highness must not be forgotten.

My father thought much of her." "But really I do not see why you are putting yourself to all this trouble.

The king will pay off the indebtedness; the kingdom is said to be rich, or Austria wouldn't meddle with it." "The king, on the twentieth of this month, will be some three millions short." "And since he can not pay he is bankrupt.

Ah, I see the plan.