Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim

CHAPTER I. THE QUEEN’S GOOD-BY

A man who has lived in the world, marking how every act, although in itself perhaps light and insignificant, may become the source of consequences that spread far and wide, and flow for years or centuries, could scarcely feel secure in reckoning that with the death of the Duke of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to liberty and his throne, th...