"A ruling prince, of course?" inquired Topándy, in naïve wonder.
"Why, you know that."
"Of course, of course. His possessions lie just where the corners of the great principalities of Lippedetmold, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and Reuss-major meet."
Oh, Gyáli must have been very full of self-confidence when he answered to the old magistrate's peculiar geographical definition, "yes."
"Your lordship has already doubtless found an excellent situation in the Principality?"
"I have an order and a title, the gift of His Excellency."
"Of course it may lead to more."
"Oh yes. In return for my winning His Excellency's domains, which he inherited on his mother's side, he will settle on me 5,000 acres of land."
"In Hohenelm-Weitbreitstein?"
"No: here in the Magyar country."