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"Gemini! what steps she takes," said another. "Oh! it is wise to hurry into good company," was Pietro's excuse. But when the pair came up, satire was choked. Gerard's companion was a peerless beauty; she extinguished the boat-load, as stars the rising sun. Tall, but not too tall; and straight as a dart, yet supple as a young panther.
"You will sleep when the rest do. Inns are not built for one." It was Gerard's turn to be astonished. "The beds were not come! what, in Heaven's name, did she mean?" But he was afraid to ask for every word he had spoken hitherto had amazed the assembly, and zoological eyes were upon him he felt them. He leaned against the wall, and sighed audibly.
Are ye not ashamed to let him grovel on the ground?" "Go to; the bare ground is the best cure for his disorder. If you get sober in bed, it gives you a headache; but you leap up from the hard ground like a lark in spring. Eh, Ulric?" "He speaks sooth, young man," said Ulric warmly. "What, is the gentleman drunk?" The servants burst into a hoarse laugh at the simplicity of Gerard's question.
"My pretty lad," said the lackey solemnly, "say a mass for thy friend's soul: for he is not among living men." The morning broke. Worn out with fatigue, Andrea and Pietro went home, heart sick. The days rolled on, mute as the Tiber as to Gerard's fate. It would indeed have been strange if with such barren data as they possessed, those men could have read the handwriting on the river's bank.
And in he went, headlong, after her, and found her dismounted and standing with her mother; and he took off his hat, and he said to her mother: 'I've run quite a long way to tell you who I am: I am Colonel Gerard's son, Austin. Would you care to know me? "And he looked at the little girl, who had curls precisely like yours, and the same little nose and mouth.
Already one sentence was fixed unforgettably upon his mind, and he said it over softly to himself as he sat by Gerard's silent bed: "Do you believe in a love that can lie asleep, as in a trance in this world, to awaken again in another, a love that during centuries of silence can still be true, and be love still in a thousand years? If you do, go on loving me.
Worthy fellow that he was, extremely fond of his sister, Madame de Quinsac, it seemed as though he acted in accordance with some secret desire of hers in accepting the invitations of Baroness Duvillard by way of rendering Gerard's constant presence in her house more natural and excusable.
Ambassador Gerard's corroboration of German atrocities in the occupied territory of France, and Minister Brand Whitlock's report on the situation in Belgium and the illegal and atrocious deportation of Belgian citizens for hard labor, ill treatment, and starvation in Germany, added fuel to the flame of national indignation, already running high as the result of continued destruction of American merchant vessels and the loss of American lives by submarine piracy and murder, continued almost without cessation since the infamous sinking of the Lusitania, one of the never-to-be-forgotten crimes of German ruthlessness.
At this hint, Margaret wound gently round Gerard's sister, and kissed her lovingly. "Often he has spoken of you to me, Kate; and often I longed for this." "You, too, Gerard," said Kate; "kiss me ere you go; for my heart lies heavy at parting with you this night." Gerard kissed her, and she went on her crutches home. The last thing they heard of her was a little patient sigh.
I shall ask my readers to recall to memory all they can of Gerard's journey with Denys, and in their mind's eye to see those very matters told by his comrade to an exile's father, all stoic outside, all father within, and to two poor women, an exile's mother and a sister, who were all love and pity and tender anxiety both outside and in.
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