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We'll have bread and jam to-day," he added, with an affectionate glance at the pot of marmalade, "and that's a good enough dinner for the Governor o' the State." "Indeed, you shall have more than that!" cried Hildegarde. "Nurse Lucy does not need me before dinner, so I will get your dinner for you."
"You impudent " But a wave of the Prince's hand silenced the Count. "Have patience, my friend. This is not impudence; it is courage and prudence. I believe," re-addressing Hillars, "that once you were on the point of eloping with the Princess Hildegarde." Hillars thrust his hands into his pockets. "So they say." "And yet you deny your regard for her!"
"My ship is aground on that island," said Will, willing to change the subject. "I have no way of getting her off. I wonder if the boat we came in is too large to be got up here." "The boat was taken back to Zaandam," said Hildegarde, "and our boat is away, too." "The 'America' will have to stay where she is, then," said Will, trying to speak cheerfully. "Pretty ship is lost!
Hildegarde moved restlessly about the kitchen, setting things to rights, as she thought, though in reality she hardly knew what she was doing, and had already carefully deposited the teapot in the coal-hod, and laid the broom on the top shelf of the dresser.
The prince advertised, after the fashion of those times, sent out detectives and notified his various brothers; but his trouble went for nothing. Not the slightest trace of the boy could be found. So he was mourned for a season, regretted and then forgotten; the prince adopted the grape-arbor. I saw the prince once. I do not blame the Princess Hildegarde for her rebellion.
The only sign of life lay in her beautiful eyes, the gaze of which remained unswervingly fixed upon the chancellor's ashen countenance. "Hildegarde," said the duke, "you shall become my daughter, and you shall dwell here till the end of your days. I will try to right the wrong that has been done to you." "No, your Highness," she replied.
"Thus it is that the lion, defined by Saint Hildegarde as the image of zeal for God, the lion, figuring the Son Himself, becomes to Hugh of Saint Victor the emblem of cruelty. Basing their argument on a text in the Psalms, certain writers identify it with Lucifer. He is in fact the lion who seeks whom he may devour, the lion who rushes on his victim.
It was her eighteenth birthday, and the Colonel was giving her a tea-party. This was a great event, for many years had passed since guests had been invited to Roseholme. The good Colonel, always delighted to be with Hildegarde and her mother, had still kept up his solitary habits at home, and save for little Hugh, who flitted about the dark old house like a sunbeam, it was a lonely place.
"What is it, father?" Herbeck waited. "Read," said the duke. As the last word left Herbeck's lips, she slipped from her father's arms and looked with pity at the chancellor. "What do you think of this, Hildegarde?" "Why, father, I think it is the very best thing in the world," dryly. "An insult like this?" The duke grew rigid. "You accept it calmly, in this fashion?"
But otherwise they differed, for Heinrich, the elder, was quiet and more given to the arts of peace; whereas Conrad was gay, and inclined to like fighting for fightings sake. Brought up along with them was Hildegarde, a relative and an orphan, whom the brothers believed to be their sister.
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