Ah, Karl, I am growing tired of this Burgundian dream.

Dream?
It is almost a nightmare." Max's words did not alarm me; he was "chained to a throne." He would not fail me if the hour of good fortune should come.
"Your thoughts of another woman will not stand in your way," I said.
"Experience is more necessary in dealing with women than in any other of life's affairs, and this episode with Yolanda is what you need to prepare you for--for what I pray you may have to do." "Karl, please do not talk of this--this--my feeling for Yolanda as an episode," he said, speaking almost angrily.

"It is a part of my life, and will be my sorrow as long as I live." The boy's anger warned me that if I would lead him, I must do it gently.
"I believe, Max, you speak truly," I said; "but it will not be an unmixed evil.

Good will come of it, since the image of a pure woman injures no man's heart.

It keeps him in the narrow way and guides his hand for righteousness.".