The duke, as I have already told you, was very rich.

Hymbercourt once told me that he had two hundred and fifty thousand gold crowns in his coffers at Luxembourg.
That was probably more than the combined treasuries of any two kings in Europe could show.

Max and I were short of money, and the sum that the duke offered seemed enormous.

Neither Max nor his father, Duke Frederick, had ever possessed as much money at one time.
While we were leisurely walking across the courtyard toward the Postern, three ladies and two gentlemen, accompanied by outriders and pages carrying falcons, rode by us and passed out through the Postern.

We followed, and overtook them at the town end of the drawbridge, where they had halted.