I have learned the great lesson of life, and am now ready to go back to Styria and take up my burden.

We must see our friends and say farewell to them.

Then--" "You forget the object of our journey to Burgundy," I answered.
"No, I have not forgotten it," he replied.

"I had abandoned it even before I heard of the impending French marriage." "Not with my consent, Max," I answered almost fiercely.

"The princess is not yet married, and no one can foresee the outcome of these present complications into which the duke is plunging.