He concluded by declaring in lofty language that, though he could not pretend to have lived the life of a saint, he should be found ready, on occasion, to die the death of a martyr.

[273] Dykvelt's mission had succeeded so well that a pretence was soon found for sending another agent to continue the work which had been so auspiciously commenced.

The new Envoy, afterwards the founder of a noble English house which became extinct in our own time, was an illegitimate cousin german of William; and bore a title taken from the lordship of Zulestein.

Zulestein's relationship to the House of Orange gave him importance in the public eye.

His bearing was that of a gallant soldier.
He was indeed in diplomatic talents and knowledge far inferior to Dykvelt: but even this inferiority had its advantages.