"This is my wife, Magny," said the Prince affectionately, taking the veteran's hand; and he added, turning to his Princess, "General de Magny saved my life during the Seven Years' War." '"What, you've taken her back again ?" said the old man.

"I wish you'd send me back my poor Maxime." He had quite forgotten the death of the poor Princess Olivia, and the Prince, looking very dark indeed, passed away.
'And now,' said Madame de Liliengarten, 'I have only one more gloomy story to relate to you--the death of the Princess Olivia.

It is even more horrible than the tale I have just told you.' With which preface the old lady resumed her narrative.
'The kind weak Princess's fate was hastened, if not occasioned, by the cowardice of Magny.

He found means to communicate with her from his prison, and her Highness, who was not in open disgrace yet (for the Duke, out of regard to the family, persisted in charging Magny with only robbery), made the most desperate efforts to relieve him, and to bribe the gaolers to effect his escape.

She was so wild that she lost all patience and prudence in the conduct of any schemes she may have had for Magny's liberation; for her husband was inexorable, and caused the Chevalier's prison to be too strictly guarded for escape to be possible.
She offered the State jewels in pawn to the Court banker; who of course was obliged to decline the transaction.