He himself had commanded for several years a large troop of mercenaries in the service of the Queen of England, and his three children, a son and two daughters, had entered monastic and conventual life.
The contents of the package confirmed all these statements.

Moreover, the very Dr.Hiltner, of whom Barbara's father had spoken so disagreeably, had paid a visit the day before to Ursel, who had won the esteem of the preceptor's old friend, and told her that he wished to talk with Wolf about an important matter.
It afforded the young man genuine pleasure to wait upon the faithful old woman and give her her medicine and barley-gruel.

His mother had brought him to Ratisbon when he was a little boy four years old, and Ursel at that time had been his nurse.

She had clung more closely to him than the woman to whom he owed his life, for his mother had deserted him to take the veil in the convent of the Sisters of St.Clare, but her maid-servant Ursel would not part from him.

So she was received by his foster parents when they adopted him, and had served them faithfully until their deaths.
The wrinkled countenance of the old woman, who, even on her sick-bed, retained her neat appearance, expressed shrewdness and energy.
Wolf's services were a pleasure and an honour.