原文 (英语)

CHAPTER XI. After the short walk in the park of his palace, during which Barbara had met him in the dusk, the Emperor Charles had dined with his son Philip and the Queen of Hungary. Now he entered his spacious study. His feet were refusing their support more and more, and the fingers of his right hand, which the gout was now crippling, found it hard to grasp his cane. He sank back in his arm-chair exhausted, closed his eyes, and laid his hand upon the clever pointed head of the gr