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The discomfited remains of his army, pursued by the victors, were either taken prisoners, cut to pieces, or drowned in their attempts to pass the March; and above fourteen thousand perished in this decisive engagement. Rudolph continued on the field till the enemy were totally routed and dispersed.
'Now, would you have thought that man had such a cruel heart? Antonia turned to me after the story was told. 'To go and do that poor woman out of any comfort she might have from his money after he was gone! 'Did you ever hear of anybody else that killed himself for spite, Mr. Burden? asked Rudolph. I admitted that I hadn't.
But, on the other hand, he had told me, 'You must, my friend, make yourself useful to others; go, then, where you may be of some good. I had a great desire to answer him, 'For me, there is no one to serve, but you, M. Rudolph. But I did not dare. He had told me to 'Go. I went; and I have obeyed him as well as I was able.
If we find ourselves forced to yield to superior numbers, we can at last retire through the passage I have spoken of, and must then scatter and each shift for himself until these bad days be past." Upon the day before starting out to head the expedition against the outlaws, Sir Rudolph sent word to the Lady Margaret that she must prepare to become his wife at the end of the week.
And, Rudolph, you have my word of honor that henceforth I shall bear in mind more constantly my duty toward one of my best and oldest friends. I have not dealt with you quite honestly. I confess it, and I ask your pardon." Mr. Charteris held out his hand to seal the compact.
The Slasher had just opened his eyes, when Rudolph entered. At the sight of the prince, his countenance of deathlike paleness, brightened up a little; he smiled painfully, and said to him, in a feeble voice: "Ah! M. Rudolph! how fortunate it was that I was at hand." "Brave and devoted as always," said the prince to him in a mournful voice; "you save me again!"
“The doctor hasn’t yet given a decided opinion,” he replied. “Can’t we do anything?” said Lady Alicia, softly. Mr Bunker thought the guests were nearly worked up to the proper pitch of sympathy. “Poor Rudolph!” he exclaimed. “It would cheer him immensely, I know, and ease my own anxiety as well, if you would venture in to see him for a few minutes.
The heat is excessive." Not till after dinner, that evening, did Rudolph rouse from his stupor. With the clerk, he lay wearily in the upper chamber of Heywood's house. The host, with both his long legs out at window, sat watching the smoky lights along the river, and now and then cursing the heat. "After all," he broke silence, "those cocoanuts came time enough."
After a long silence, Rudolph resumed, with deep dejection: "I see I must despair of persuading you: reason is weak when opposed to a conviction, the more firm because it has its source in a generous and elevated sentiment. Since every moment you throw back a look on the past, the contrast between these remembrances and your present position must be indeed a continual punishment to you.
Indeed, music seems to be inborn in them, and while the widowed crown princess is devoted to her piano, on which her performances are characterized by a superb technique, but coupled alas! with a complete absence of sentiment, her husband, the lamented Crown Prince Rudolph, was a composer of no mean power and seemed at times to pour forth his entire soul in the melodies which he coaxed from this instrument.
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