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For the rest I allowed Master Gerard's daughter to develop her own projects to him, which, indeed, she was no long time in doing. As she proceeded I saw my father change color and become as to his face almost as white as the Friesland cloth in which he was dressed. Presently, however, as if struck with the sound of a well-known name, he looked up quickly.
She always treated him very affectionately, but rather like a good comrade, and she was no more stirred by his presence now than she was when she had lain in wait with him behind the old green sofa to hunt Father Gerard's battered fur hat. Amedee had most naturally taken the Gerard family into his confidence regarding his work.
Then followed a stately form in mulberry moire and point lace, leaning on Gerard's more especial abhorrence, 'that puppy, who had been the author of all the mischief; and behind them three girls, one in black, the other two in white, and, what was provoking, he really could not decide which was Ursula.
We arrived in state by the Rue Castiglione, so that the column surmounted by the statue, covered by a veil that was to drop at a given signal, faced us just as we came out upon the square M. Thiers, in full uniform, with his minister's hat and feathers, and again riding "Vanndomme," struck in his spurs, left the procession at full gallop, and passed before my father, shouting at the very top of his falsetto voice, "I take your Majesty's pleasure" the words being accompanied by a wave of his hat which ill-natured people might have said was copied from General Rapp's gesture in Gerard's picture of the Battle of Austerlitz at the Louvre.
Kate then revealed to Giles that she had heard Cornelis and Sybrandt mention Gerard's name; and being herself in great anxiety at his not coming home all day, had listened at their door, and had made a fearful discovery. Gerard was in prison, in the haunted tower of the Stadthouse. He was there, it seemed, by their father's authority.
The German authorities hate and respect publicity and force in matters not to their liking, and Mr. Gerard's fearlessness in reports of conditions and urgent pleas for improvement have been of great service. All the threats and bluster of Germany have failed to cow him. To continue my narrative of the Cockney soldier in Russian uniform.
"And I must part from her," he sobbed; "we two that love so dear one must be in Holland, one in Italy. Ah me! ah me! ah me!" At this Margaret wept afresh, but patiently and silently. Instinct is never off its guard, and with her unselfishness was an instinct. To utter her present thoughts would be to add to Gerard's misery at parting, so she wept in silence.
"Oh, Gerard!" said his mother, with a voice full of reproach yet of affection. Gerard's heart quaked: he was silent. Then his father pitied his confusion, and said to him: "Nay, you need not to hang your head. You are not the first young fool that has been caught by a red cheek and a pair of blue eyes." "Nay, nay!" put in Catherine, "it was witchcraft; Peter the Magician is well known for that."
Lock, who was in need of a trusty emissary to report on some sulphur mines in Iceland, for which he had a concession. The two came to terms, and it was decided that Burton should start in May. He spent the intervening time at Lord Gerard's, and thence Mrs. Burton wrote to Miss Stisted saying why she did not accompany Burton in his visit to his relatives.
Louise had just returned from distributing semiquavers in the city; her eyes and poor Mother Gerard's were filled with tears of joy. "What, my darling, "said the mother, embracing her child, "are you going to trouble yourself about our necessaries of life, too?" "Do you see this little sister?" said Louise, laughing cordially. "She is going to earn a pile of money as large as she is herself.
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