GRUMBKOW.

Outrageous!

KING.

The Ambassador, Vicomte de la Rancune, otherwise le petit combinateur.
That's you, Seckendorf.

SECKENDORF.

It's—it's an international insult.

KING.

And he called Eversmann la rapinière, or, as we would say, Old
Rapacity!

EVERSMANN.

The rogue! And such books find their way into the country—marked properly by the Crown Prince at that!