She is charming, Max, but remember Gertrude the Conqueror! Such trifling affairs are well enough to teach a man the a-b-c of life but one with your destiny ahead of him must not remain too long in his alphabet.

Such affairs are for boys, Max, for boys." "Do not fear for me, Karl," answered Max, laughingly.

"We are not apt to take hurt from dangers we see." "Do you clearly see the danger ?" I suggested.
"I clearly see," he responded.

"I admire Fraeulein Yolanda as I have never admired any other woman.

I respect her as if she were a princess; but one of the penalties of my birth is that I may not think of her nor of one of her class.