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For both, however, Providence raised up friends in the day of need. Remembering what he owed to his connection with the Especs, the Lord de Roos received Walter into his castle of Wark, to be trained to arms; and another kinsman, who was a prior in France, received Osbert into his convent, to be reared as a monk.
Come 'long, chil'en, time you's gwyne to roos'. Go 'long wid you ole Uncle Daniel gwyne out in de woods to rastle in prah de ole nigger gwyne to do what he kin to sabe you agin." He did go to the woods and pray; but he went so far that he doubted, himself, if the Lord heard him when He went by.
Herr Elias Roos had departed this life, his business agent wrote, and Traugott's presence was required in order to settle matters with the book-keeper, who had married Miss Christina and undertaken the business. Traugott hurried back to Dantzic by the shortest route.
Just as Susan herself wanted this delightful afternoon with Peter Coleman! "How much money has to do with life!" the girl thought. But even the morning's events did not cloud the afternoon. She met Peter at the door of Mr. Baxter's office, and they went laughing out into the clear winter sunshine together. Where first? To Roos Brothers, for one of the new folding trunks.
Lord Roos had never been near his wife since her seizure nor, that she could learn, had made any inquiries about her; but notwithstanding his heartless conduct, her great desire was to behold him once more before she died, and to breathe some last words into his ear; and she urged the wish so strongly upon her confidante, that the latter promised, if possible, to procure its accomplishment.
"Ay, let her do that, my lord, let her speak to us," urged Lady Roos. "Diablo! how is this request to be complied with, I marvel?" said Diego apart. But Lord Roos was too experienced a player to be defeated by this turn in the game. "Gillian has already been sufficiently annoyed," he cried; "and shall not submit to this ordeal. Besides, she has relapsed into insensibility, as you see."
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, but, by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude. So Roos "entered into the inmost nature of a sheep."
The young nobleman in question, whose handsome features and prematurely-wasted frame bore the impress of cynicism and debauchery, was Lord Roos, then recently entrapped into marriage with the daughter of Sir Thomas Lake, Secretary of State: a marriage productive of the usual consequences of such imprudent arrangements neglect on the one side, unhappiness on the other.
"What, my prince of usurers!" exclaimed Lord Roos, in a mocking tone; "my worthy money-lender, who never takes more than cent. per cent., and art ill content with less; who never exacts more than the penalty of thy bond, unless more may be got; who never drives a hard bargain with a needy man by thine own account; who never persecutes a debtor as the prisons shall vouch for thee; who art just in all thy transactions as every man who hath had dealings with thee will affirm; and who knows not how to lie, to cheat, to cozen as some usurers do."
"Forty-three!" called Cochrane. "Now watch the fours." He swept up the other three dice and made his second cast. Another four rolled upon the deck. He had won Van Roos, to dispose of him as he saw fit. Harrigan heard the rumble of Sam Hall's cursing. "Easy, lad," said Cochrane soothingly.
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