I break with your serene highness!'" They began to walk toward the carriage.

"Well," said Robert Acton, "it 's a curious story! How did you make his acquaintance ?" "I was staying with an old lady--an old Countess--in Dresden.

She had been a friend of my father's.

My father was dead; I was very much alone.
My brother was wandering about the world in a theatrical troupe." "Your brother ought to have stayed with you," Acton observed, "and kept you from putting your trust in princes." The Baroness was silent a moment, and then, "He did what he could," she said.

"He sent me money.