It turned out a gold mine, and then two streams of defamation were let loose; one from the covetous commercial standpoint and the other from the humanitarian.
Between them, seeking to drive him out, they depicted him as a monster of cruelty and depravity.
A King must be an anchorite to escape calumny, and Leopold was not an anchorite.

I asked him why I never saw him in the Casino.

"Play," he answered, "does not interest me.

Besides, I do not enjoy being talked about.

Nor do I think the game they play there quite fair." "In what way do you consider it unfair, your Majesty ?" I asked.
"In the zero," he replied.