No St.Luc was there.

The chair in which he had sat was not empty, but was occupied by a stolid, stout Dutchman, who seemed not to have moved for hours.
It had been a vision, a figment of the fancy, after all! But it was merely an attempt of the will to persuade himself that it was so.

He could not doubt that he had seen St.Luc, who, probably listening to some counsel of providence, had left the hall.

Robert felt an immense relief, and now he was able to assume his best manner when Mr.Hardy began to present him and Tayoga to many of the notables.

He met the governor, Mr.Watts, and more De Lanceys, Wilsons and Crugers than he could remember, and he received invitations to great houses, and made engagements which he intended to keep, if it were humanly possible.