Whereat he departed fully satisfied.
Nevertheless this interview left me with a great feeling of insecurity.
If the Duke Casimir were thus full of fears, doubts, misgivings, whence came the fierce and cruel courage with which he dominated his liege burghers and harassed the country round about for a hundred leagues?
The cunning of a weak man?
Say, rather, the contrivance of a strong servant to hide the frailty of a weak master.
Then first it was that I saw that my father Gottfried Gottfried was the true ruler of the Wolfmark, and that the man who had carried me on his shoulders and played with the little Helene was--at least, so long as Duke Casimir lived--the greatest man in all the Dukedom and first Councillor of State, whether the matter were one of peasant or Kaiser..