I'll not betray your secret to any one.
Do you love Frau Van der Werff ?" "Yes, Fraulein." Henrica drew a long breath, then continued: "And now you are rushing out into the world to forget her ?" "No, Fraulein." "Then tell me why you have fled from Leyden ?" "To find an end that becomes a soldier." Henrica advanced close to his side, exclaiming so scornfully, that it cut Georg to the heart: "So it has grasped you too! It seizes all: Knights, maidens, wives and widows; not one is spared.

Never ending sorrow! Farewell, Georg! We can laugh at or pity each other, just as we choose.

A heart pierced with seven swords: what an exquisite picture! Let us wear blood-red knots of ribbon, instead of green and blue ones.

Give me your hand once more, now farewell." Henrica beckoned to the musician and both followed Belotti up the steep, narrow stairs.

Wilhelm remained behind in a little room, adjoining a second one, where a beautiful boy, about three years old, was being tended by an Italian woman.