It was too tight for him.

And the old soldier burst into tears, when he found he could not buckle it.

Such a man was not fit to encounter the terrible Rowski in single combat.
Nor could he hope to make head against him for any time in the field.
The Prince's territories were small; his vassals proverbially lazy and peaceable; his treasury empty.

The dismallest prospects were before him: and he passed a sleepless night writing to his friends for succor, and calculating with his secretary the small amount of the resources which he could bring to aid him against his advancing and powerful enemy.
Helen's pillow that evening was also unvisited by slumber.

She lay awake thinking of Otto,--thinking of the danger and the ruin her refusal to marry had brought upon her dear papa.