Bassompierre sets out for Hungary to serve as a volunteer in the Imperial Army against the Turks--His journey to Vienna--He learns that the commander-in-chief of the army is General von Rossworm, a mortal enemy of the Bassompierre family--He is advised by his friends in Vienna to take service in the Army of Transylvania, instead of in that of Hungary, but declines to change his plans--He sups more well than wisely at Gran--His arrival in the Imperialist camp before Buda--Position of the hostile armies--Bassompierre is presented to Rossworm--He narrowly escapes being killed or taken prisoner by the Turks--He takes part in a fierce combat in the Isle of Adon, and has another narrow escape--He is reconciled with Rossworm--Massacre of eight hundred Turkish prisoners--Failure of a night-attack planned by the Imperialist general--Gallant but foolhardy enterprise of the Hungarians--The Turks bombard the Imperialist headquarters--Termination of the campaign--Bassompierre returns with Rossworm to Vienna.....pp. 38-49 CHAPTER V Bassompierre goes to Prague, where the Imperial Court is in residence--He is presented by Rossworm to the lords of the Council--He dines at the house of Prestowitz, Burgrave of Karlstein, and falls in love with his widowed daughter, “Madame Esther”--Bassompierre and Rossworm engage in an amorous adventure, from which they narrowly escape with their lives--Bassompierre plays tennis with Wallenstein, with the Emperor Maximilian an interested spectator--He is presented to the Emperor, who receives him very graciously and commissions him to raise troops in Lorraine for service against the Turks--Bassompierre, Rossworm and other nobles parade the streets masked and have an affray with the police--Singular sequel to this affair--Bassompierre spends the Carnival with the Prestowitz family at Karlstein--Amorous escapade with “Madame Esther”--Bassompierre sets out for Lorraine--He engages in a drinking-bout with the canons of Saverne which very nearly has a fatal termination--Death of his brother Jean, Seigneur de Removille, at the siege of Ostend--Grievances of Bassompierre against the French Government--Henri IV promises that “justice shall be done him” and invites him to return to his Court--Bassompierre renounces his intention of entering the Imperial service and sets out for France.....pp. 50-63 CHAPTER VI