Give her the promise.

Are your veins filled with water and caution ?" "What do you mean, Karl ?" cried Max, stepping toward me with surprise and delight in his face.

"Are you advising me wrongly for the first time in my life ?" Then there was a touch of anger in his voice as he continued: "Have I blood in my veins?
Aye, Karl, burning, seething blood, and every drop cries wildly for this girl--this child.

I would give the half of it to make her my wife and to make her happy.

But I would not abate one jot of my wretchedness at her expense.