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Updated: May 1, 2025
Gervase Vanburgh thought he had never seen so typical a picture of youth and age as that made by his uncle and the bright-faced girl, and mentally contrasted this welcome with the one given to himself the day before.
The earl of Leicester was sent over to Holland at the head of the English auxiliary forces. He carried with him a splendid retinue; being accompanied by the young earl of Essex, his son-in-law, the lords Audley and North, Sir William Russel, Sir Thomas Shirley, Sir Arthur Basset, Sir Walter Waller, Sir Gervase Clifton, and a select troop of five hundred gentlemen.
"Egypt does not agree with me, I suppose! the dryness of the soil breeds fever and a touch of madness! Men are not blocks of wood or monoliths of stone; they are creatures of flesh and blood, of nerve and muscle; you cannot torture them so..." He interrupted himself with a kind of breathless irritation at his own speech. Gervase regarded him steadily, slightly smiling.
Ross Courtney is the only man of the party once assembled at the Gezireh Palace Hotel who still goes to Cairo every winter, fascinated thither by an annually recurring dim notion that he may "discover traces" of the lost Armand Gervase and the Princess Ziska.
But he realized enough as he toyed, as cat with mouse, with Richard Westmacott, to know that in striking at her through the worthless person of this brother whom she cherished and who persisted in affording him this opportunity a wicked vengeance would be his. Peace-loving Lord Gervase had heaved himself suddenly to his feet at Westmacott's last words, still intent upon saving the situation.
"What of the inspiration that lifts a man beyond himself and his material needs, and teaches him to strive after the Highest?" "Mere mad folly!" replied Gervase impetuously. "Take the Arts. I, for example, dream of painting a picture that shall move the world to admiration, but I seldom grasp the idea I have imagined.
She said it, looking straight down on me on me who stood in my tattered clothes in the full glare of the lamp. And then I heard the butler catch his breath, and suddenly her voice trailed off in wonder and pitiful disappointment. "It's not Gervase! It's Reg Mr. Travers. I beg your pardon. I thought " But I passed up the steps and stood before her: and said, as she drew back
Dr. Dean nodded pleasantly. "Originally, yes. That is precisely what I mean originally! Let me take you in to supper." He offered his arm, but Gervase made a hasty step forward. "Princess," he began She waved him off lightly. "My dear Monsieur Gervase, we are not in the desert, where Bedouin chiefs do just as they like.
"Madame la Princesse Ziska" began Gervase, addressing his unfascinating object with apparent indifference to his hideousness. The Nubian's grinning lips stretched themselves wider apart as, in a thick, snarling voice he demanded: "Votre nom?" "Armand Gervase." "Entrez!" "Et moi?" queried Fulkeward, with a conciliatory smile. "Non! Pas vous. Monsieur Armand Gervase, seul!"
Oh! we don't want to spoil sport and balk your good intentions; but, by George, Gervase, we never thought you would have been the man to be tied so tight to a woman's apron-string. You must spare us one more carouse for old friendship's sake, my boy, just to try what it is like again, and hear all the news. Ah! your teeth are watering; come along; Madam is not to swallow you up entirely."
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