His aunt, Nesta, had been the mistress of Henry I. of England; and had afterwards married first Gerald of Windsor, and then a certain Stephen; her sons and grandsons, whether Fitz-Henrys, Fitz-Geralds, or Fitz-Stephens, were famous men of war; nor were the children of her daughter, who had married William de Barri, behind them in valour.

I had never scorned a woman myself, but Pongo Twistleton once scorned an aunt of his, flatly refusing to meet her son Gerald at Paddington and give him lunch and see him off to school at Waterloo, and he never heard the end of it.

You and the Gerald with whom you became acquainted were brothers by the father's side.

Halloway stood near Gerald in the crowd, but he did not attempt to join her until the raft reached the pier and was made fast.

CHAPTER II THE OTTER HOUNDS Grace's tweed dress was wet and rather muddy when she stood with Gerald on a gravel bank at the head of a pool, where the beck from the tarn joined a larger stream that flowed through a neighboring dale.

Phebe followed Gerald into her room when the two girls went up-stairs, and sat watching her friend's quick movements as she completed some last arrangements for the journey.

Besides, I'm not robbing Gerald by agreeing to your plan; Gerald robbed himself and me.

Some rumor of this could not fail to reach Lanfear, but he ignored it as best he could in always speaking gravely of Miss Gerald as his patient, and authoritatively treating her as such.

" "Not if you come with the intention of putting Gerald out of conceit with Joppa.

"Surely you will forgive him?" pleaded Halloway, looking up at Gerald over Olly's head, and holding out one of the boy's hands in his own.

He could free Gerald from his entanglements and, using no pressure, leave her parents' gratitude to work on Grace.

The madman flung Gerald to the ground, and fled shrieking.