8/12 Some day I will visit his grave. Tell her Majesty that there is still a Rassendyll, if she has need of one." The offer was such as should come from a man of Rudolf's name, yet I trust that the queen needs no further service than such as it is our humble duty and dear delight to render her. It is our part to strive to lighten the burden that she bears, and by our love to assuage her undying grief. For she reigns now in Ruritania alone, the last of all the Elphbergs; and her only joy is to talk of Mr.Rassendyll with those few who knew him, her only hope that she may some day be with him again. There he lies among the princes of the House of Elphberg. |