Besides, nothing moves the heart more quickly than the grief of a proud, stern man.

Herr Casper's confession did not make him dearer to the knight, but it induced him to drop the irritating tone which he had assumed, and in an altered voice he begged him not to give up his cause as lost without resistance.

For his daughter's sake old Herr Ortlieb must lend his aid.

Els, with whom he had just spoken, would cling firmly to Wolff, and try to induce her father to do all that was possible for her lover's house.

He would endeavour to settle with his own creditors himself.