And if the lesson of his physiognomy be true, he is as sterling inwardly as his external is fair.

"Now," said I to Teuta, "we are to all intents quite alone.

Tell me all that has been, so that I may understand." Whereupon my daughter, making me sit down, knelt beside me, and told me from end to end the most marvellous story I had ever heard or read of.
Something of it I had already known from the Archbishop Paleologue's later letters, but of all else I was ignorant.

Far away in the great West beyond the Atlantic, and again on the fringe of the Eastern seas, I had been thrilled to my heart's core by the heroic devotion and fortitude of my daughter in yielding herself for her country's sake to that fearful ordeal of the Crypt; of the grief of the nation at her reported death, news of which was so mercifully and wisely withheld from me as long as possible; of the supernatural rumours that took root so deep; but no word or hint had come to me of a man who had come across the orbit of her life, much less of all that has resulted from it.

Neither had I known of her being carried off, or of the thrice gallant rescue of her by Rupert.
Little wonder that I thought so highly of him even at the first moment I had a clear view of him when he sank down to sleep before me.