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Hayes that Prince Rupert is very bad still, and so bad, that he do now yield to be trepanned. It seems, as Dr. Clerke also tells me, it is a clap of the pox which he got about twelve years ago, and hath eaten to his head and come through his scull, so his scull must be opened, and there is great fear of him.
And forth from the outskirts of Oxford rides Rupert on the day we are to describe, and we must still protract our pause a little longer to speak of him. Prince Rupert, Prince Robert, or Prince Robber, for by all these names was he known, was the one formidable military leader on the royal side.
"But how delightful!" exclaimed Adrien coming from the piano where she had been playing, with Rupert Stillwell turning her music for her. "I suppose upon the best authority," said Stillwell, grinning at Patricia. "We are so glad you found time to run in," said Mrs. Templeton. "You must have a great deal to say to your team on the last afternoon."
Slowly, and brooding over the change which the late twenty-four hours had made in his fortune, Rupert sought the garden. As he sauntered along the walks he heard a cry, and looking up saw Adele struggling in the arms of James Brownlow, who was trying to kiss her, while a young fellow his own age stood by laughing.
Rupert at once got ready to fight; but as the wind was from the northward and westward, giving the allies the weather-gage, and with it the choice of the method of attack, Ruyter availed himself of his local knowledge, keeping so close to the beach that the enemy dared not approach, the more so as it was late in the day.
'Willie Turner! said Elizabeth; 'oh! the apothecary's daughter, Wilhelmina. You must have heard of Mr. Turner. Rupert has made a standing joke of him, ever since the scarlet-fever. 'Oh yes! said Anne, 'I know Mr. Turner's name very well; but I never knew that Miss Turner was a friend of Kate's.
Across his smooth tanned cheek she dribbled a jagged line of scarlet. Then instructing Ricky to bind the torn edge of his sleeve above his elbow, she also stained the bandage. "Well?" she turned to Rupert. "He looks as though he had been through the wars all right," he agreed. "But what about the costume?" "Oh, we needn't worry about that.
Do you keep an account of your expenditure?" "Of course I don't!" Rupert seemed astonished at the question. "What on earth would be the good of that? It wouldn't reduce my expenses." Mordaunt laid his cheque-book back in the drawer. "And you think you would make a good bailiff?" he said. "Oh, that's different. Of course, you must have accounts for the management of an estate.
From Holland came over Major Dillon, and four or five others of the officers of the 5th dragoons. Lord Fairholm was also there, and Hugh was not the least welcome to Rupert of those assembled at the wedding.
I went as Prince Rupert, and I talked as he charged but with more success, for I turned all my foes into friends. I had the divinest evening; Oxford meant so much to me. . . . . "I wish I could tell you all Oxford did for me. "I was the happiest man in the world when I entered Magdalen for the first time. Oxford the mere word to me is full of an inexpressible, an incommunicable charm.
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