- The poor baron bore it all, as long as he could, and when he could bear it no longer lost his appetite and his spirits,
- and sat himself gloomily and dejectedly down. But there were worse troubles yet in store for him, and as they came on,
- his melancholy and sadness increased. Times changed. He got into debt. The Grogzwig coffers ran low,
- though the Swillenhausen family had looked upon them as inexhaustible; and just when the baroness was on the point of making a thirteenth
- addition to the family pedigree, Von Koëldwethout discovered that he had no means of replenishing them.
- "I don't see what is to be done," said the baron. "I think I'll kill myself."
