What was he doing in that place?
The money had been wrongly squandered, but that was largely by his own neglect.

And he now proposed to embarrass the finances of this country which he had been too idle to govern.

And he now proposed to squander the money once again, and this time for a private, if a generous end.

And the man whom he had reproved for stealing corn he was now to set stealing treasure.

And then there was Madame von Rosen, upon whom he looked down with some of that ill-favoured contempt of the chaste male for the imperfect woman.