Nevertheless you played again, and commenced your vicious life anew.

Notwithstanding which, I did not send you to prison as I threatened, and as you deserved, because I remembered that you had been a brave soldier, and did me a good service at the battle of Leuthen.

For this reason I now also grant your request, that, as you have no son, your name and coat-of-arms may descend to your son-in-law.
The name of Werrig-Leuthen is well worthy to be preserved, and be an example to succeeding generations.

I give my permission for Ludwig Ebenstreit, banker, to marry your daughter and only child, and--'" Marie uttered a cry of horror, and sprang from her seat.

"Mother!--" "Be still! I commanded you not to interrupt me, but listen, with becoming respect, to the end, to the words' of his majesty." And, with a louder voice, occasionally casting a severe, commanding glance at her daughter, she read on: "'And call himself in future Ludwig Werrig von Leuthen.