She took the paper and turned it over curiously. Then, with her usual audacity, she opened it and began to read.
“Ah,” she said, “it is in Hebrew.”
Von Holzen nodded his head, and held out his hand for the paper, which she gave to him. She was not afraid of the man—but she was very near to fear.
“And I am sitting here, quietly under the trees, Fräulein,” he said, “learning it by heart.”
CHAPTER XXIV. A BRIGHT AND SHINING LIGHT.
“Un homme sérieux est celui qui se croit regardé.”
When Lord Ferriby decided to accede to Roden's earnest desire that he should go to The Hague, he was conscious of conferring a distinct favour upon the Low Countries.
“It is not a place one would choose to go to at this time of year,” he said to a friend at the club. “In the winter, it is different; for the season there is in the winter, as in many Continental capitals.”