"It is my duty to warn you of it."
"Well, Mandt, if you have done your duty in warning me, I will do mine by going out."
And the emperor, without listening to another word, pursued his way.
Mandt, stupefied for a moment, ran after him, and rejoined him in the court-yard, at the moment he mounted his horse.
"Sire," cried he, resuming his supplications, "deign to listen to me—"
"I have said it, Mandt. I thank you, but to insist would be useless."
"Sire, in this condition!"
"Well?"
"It is your death, sire."
"And then?"