I bade him begone.

And he swore he would execute his purpose yet in spite of every town's Executioner in the Empire." "Ah, will he ?" said I, a calm chill of hatred settling about my heart.
"I, Hugo Gottfried, will execute him, if I have to send for my father's Red Axe to do it with--singed and scented monkey that he is." "Nay," said Helene, "then I wish I had not told you.

Perhaps he will not meddle with me again, and if you cross him he may slay thee.

Remember, I have no friend here but you, Hugo!" "Count von Reuss slay me! I could eat him up without salt or savory--a weak reed, a kerl without backbone save of buckram; why, I will shake him this day like a rat between my hands!" So I spoke in my anger, hot with myself that I had let the Little Playmate suffer these things, and resolved that neither Prince nor Princess would stand between me and my love a moment longer.
But in all lands it takes more than Say-so to budge the stubborn wheels of circumstance..