He would have it to the end that I had escaped from such venture as had Koenigsmarck; he would have it my wounds were the mere offset to a love well worth them; he _would_ envy me.

'Passion,' said he, 'without passion there can be no great thing.'" "And the saying lived in your thoughts," cried Clementina.

"I do not wonder.

'Without passion there can be no great thing!' Can books teach a man so much ?" "Nay, it was an hour's talk with Koenigsmarck which set the old man's thoughts that way; and though Koenigsmarck talked never so well, I would not likely infer from his talk an eternal and universal truth.

Count Otto left me alone while he fetched me food, and he left me in a panic." "A panic ?" said Clementina, with a little laugh.