"It is, I suppose, Father, that my eyes have been opened since I first came to Vienna!"
"You have sent many faithful reports of his unfaith, of his encouragement of Protestant princes, even of his offers to serve Gustavus! And you think that if your belief is true, he is unworthy!"
"I should say vile!" Nigel broke in.
"Yet upon him rests the possibility of resistance in Bohemia?"
"He lives in state in Prague, so they say, with a court and a multitude of retainers. His name is still something to draw men!"
"And what do you say if I tell you that the Grand Turk meditates an invasion of Hungary?"
"You must make your peace with Saxony!"
"The Emperor has sent orders to Rudolf von Tiefbach to withdraw from Lusatia."
"Saxony will look upon that as a sign of weakness rather than amity, and will invade us the quicker."
"So I think!" said the Father with a sigh. "But the Emperor would have it so."