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Bisschop is unquestionably the best of the Dutch portrait-painters, though his still life is considered even more artistic than his portraits. The foremost of the lady portrait and figure painters is Therese Schwartze, who, like Josselin de Jong, often takes Queen Wilhelmina as a grateful subject for her brush.

Ruth stood in the middle of the wretched room, with her hands hanging slack and her eyes bent wearily upon her mother, who had collapsed upon a block of sawn timber, and sat there, with sack apron cast over her head, rocking her body. "Hush, ye fool!" said old Josselin, and spat out of window. Mechanically, by habit, his dim eyes swept along the beach by the breakers' edge.

Not otherwise can I account for the image of Ruth Josselin my Lady Vyell Lady Good-for-Nothing as under these various names it flits, for the next few years, through annals, memoirs, correspondence, scandalous chronicles; now vindicated, now glanced at with unseemly nods and becks, anon passionately denounced; now purely shining, now balefully, above and between the clouds of those times; but always a star and an object of wonder.

Look at this one, now runnin' in and out so that the eye can't hardly follow it; and all for my lord's dressing-room! Cost a hundred pound, I shouldn't wonder. Mrs. Strongtharm. T'cht! Mrs. Josselin. He must be amazing fond of her. Fancy, my Ruth! . . . It's a pity he's not home, to take the child. Mrs. Strongtharm. Men at these times are best out o' the way. Mrs. Josselin.

But one sad face there was at the board, and that belonged to him at the head of it. Sir Robert Bambro' sat with his chin leaning upon his hand and his eyes downcast upon the cloth, whilst all round him rose the merry clatter of voices, everyone planning some fresh enterprise which might now be attempted. Sir Robert Knolles was for an immediate advance upon Josselin.

On what errand had he left his castle of Josselin to pay this visit to his deadly enemies? "Are they armed?" he asked. "They are unarmed." "Then admit them and bring them hither, but double the guards and take all heed against surprise." Places were set at the farther end of the table for these most unexpected guests.

"The gel's right," corroborated old Josselin, pausing as he filled a pipe. "I remember it." "This is what I have to report Sir Oliver has asked me to marry him." There was a pause. "I dunno," said the old man sourly and Ruth knew that tone so well!

Mrs. Josselin. Certain, certain! I wonder, now, what they'll call him! After Sir Oliver, perhaps. Her own father's name was Michael. In my own family that's the Pocock's the men were mostly Williams and Georges. Called after the Kings of England. Mrs. Oliver Cromwell was as good as any king, and better. Leastways my mar says so. For my part, I don't bother my head wi' these old matters.

You had better," she added quietly, "be particular about telling me the truth; for I may question him, and for a discovered falsehood he is capable of beating you." "What I have said," stammered the clergyman, "was er entirely on my own responsibility. I I conceived you would find it sympathetic helpful perhaps. Believe me, Miss Josselin, I have considerable feeling for you and your er position."

It commanded his admiration the more that her small arm trembled against his sleeve. "The courage of it," he murmured; "and Miss Quiney of all women!" She needed courage. The Collector's handsome face greeted her with a scowl and a hard stare; he could be intractable in his cups. "Excuse me, madam, but I sent for Miss Josselin." She answered him, but first made low obeisance.