"At my son's suggestion I know," rejoined Beresteyn quietly, "and from your subsequent acts, sir, I must infer that you only did it because you felt that she was safer under your charge than at the mercy of her own brother and his friends . . . Nay! do not protest," he added earnestly, "Nicolaes, as you see, is of the same opinion." "May Heaven reward you, sir, for that kindly thought of me," said Diogenes more seriously, "it will cheer me in the future, when I and all my doings will have faded from your ken." "You are not leaving Holland, sir?" "Not just now, mynheer, while there is so much fighting to be done. The Stadtholder hath need of soldiers . . ." "And he will, sir, find none better than you throughout the world. And with a goodly fortune to help you. . . ." "Speak not of that, mynheer," he said firmly, "I could not take your money. If I did I should never know a happy hour again."
Baroness Orczy | The Laughing Cavalier [Volume II]
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