I felt that Max was chosen of God for that destiny.
Should he succeed in defending Burgundy against France, he would become the most powerful man in Europe.

No event save death could keep him from achieving the imperial crown.
If the existing treaty of marriage between Mary and the Dauphin of France were carried out, and if the Dauphin as king should possess one-half the wisdom of his father, Louis, all western Europe would soon be France.

If this treaty were to fail and the Princess Mary espouse a man capable of defending her territory, Burgundy would still remain a wall of protection to the smaller states of the Rhine.
A long silence followed Yolanda's outburst, but her words had so astonished me that my supper for the evening was finished.

Castleman plied his knife industriously; Yolanda nibbled at a piece of meat between her dainty fingers, and Twonette gazed serenely out of the open window.
Yolanda's words and Castleman's constraint filled me with wonder.

There was to me a mystery about this little beauty that had not been touched on by my friend from Peronne.