Helfen konnte er niemandem mehr, und die Diener mußten gleich kommen; er gelobte sich aber, die Sache noch zur Sprache zu bringen und die wirklich Schuldigen, die hohen Beamten, von denen sich ihm noch keiner zu zeigen gewagt hatte, soweit es in seinen Kräften war, gebührend zu bestrafen.
He was no longer in any position to help anyone, and the servitors would soon be back; he did, though, promise himself that he would raise the matter again with somebody and see that, as far as it was in his power, those who really were guilty, the high officials whom nobody had so far dared point out to him, received their due punishment.