Your Grace is misinformed.

My father is not a friend to the Swiss; neither does he hate them, though perhaps he has better cause to do so than has Your Grace.

Your quarrel with the Swiss is over a few cart-loads of sheepskins.

These same Swiss took from my father our ancient homestead, the old Castle of Hapsburg, and the surrounding territory of Aargau." "I have heard of the spoliation, and have often wondered at your father's meek submission," said the duke, with an almost imperceptible sneer.

Like Richard the Lion-hearted, of England, butchery was this duke's trade, and he despised a man who did not practise it on all possible occasions.