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Updated: May 14, 2025
"You have a healthy appearance, Roger! Your complexion speaks of an admirable digestion!" De Launay smiled. "You think so? Well! Your professional approval is worth having!" He paused, then went on; "The party will be a pleasant one to-night. The King is in high spirits." "Ah!" And Von Glauben's monosyllable spoke volumes.
"Good!" said the King gently; "Then you must help me to console her in Humphry's absence!" Professor Von Glauben's eyes opened widely, with a vague look of alarm. "In his absence, Sir?" "Yes! I am sending him abroad. He is quite willing to go, he tells me. His departure will make all things perfectly easy for us.
I can pull an oar and manage a sail, and I am not afraid of death by drowning! For Gloria's sake, let me go with you!" "For Gloria's sake, stay here!" cried Ronsard; and with an abrupt movement he escaped Von Glauben's hold, and ran with all the speed of a boy out of the cottage into the garden beyond.
Her lovely lips smiled, her eyes laughed, she looked the very incarnation of Beauty triumphant. Von Glauben's brain whirled, he felt bewitched and dazzled. "I? to teach you anything? No, my princess! and please think how loyally I have called you 'Princess' from the beginning! I have always told you that you have a spiritual knowledge far surpassing all material wisdom.
He broke off abruptly, seeing Von Glauben's eyes fixed steadfastly upon him, and the colour deepened in his cheek. Then he gave a slight laugh. "I tell you, Von Glauben, this little love-affair this absurd toy- marriage is not worth thinking about.
Do not sing, my princess!" said the voice; "For if you open your rosy mouth of music, all the birds of the air, and all the little fishes of the sea will come to listen! And, who knows! Someone more dangerous than either a bird or a fish may listen also!" The King grasped De Launay by the arm. "Was I not right?" he whispered. "There is no mistaking Von Glauben's accent!"
He saw a scarcely perceptible smile on his son's handsome features, he saw that Von Glauben's eyes twinkled, despite his carefully preserved seriousness of demeanour, and he realized the almost absurd powerlessness of his authority in such an embarrassing position.
Yet Von Glauben's large hand was gentler than a woman's in its touch and gift of healing, no surgeon alive could probe a wound more tenderly, or with less pain to the sufferer, and the skill of that large hand was accompanied by the penetrative quality of the large benevolent brain which guided it, a brain that could encompass the whole circle of the world in its observant and affectionate compassion.
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