But the orbs which in the maid shone as steadily clear as the depths of the sea, in the father glittered opalescent where he sat in the dusk, like the eyes of Grimalkin cornered by dogs in some gloomy angle of the Wolfsberg wall.
As soon as I had set eyes on him I knew that I had to do with a man--not with a walking show like my Lord Duke Casimir.

It struck me that for good or evil Master Gerard could carry through his intent to the bitter end, and that in council he would smile when he saw my father change his black vesture of trial for the red of beheading.
The Doctor Gerard was little seen in the streets of Thorn.

Many citizens had never so much as set eyes on him.

Nevertheless his hand was in everything.

Some said he was a Jew, chiefly because none knew rightly what he was or whence he had come.