A statue of gilt bronze for many a year marked the tomb of Rodolph of Suabia.
On the same evening, when the soldiers were scattered through the town, and the nobles had retired to such quarters as they could procure, Gilbert de Hers sought out Father Omehr, and found him in an apartment which the Archbishop of Mayence had obtained for the missionary.
Up to the day of his interview with Rodolph at Mayence, Gilbert's mind had been wholly engrossed with the bright pictures which a vivid and worldly fancy and a keen ambition to excel can always unfold to the eye of youth.

At times he remembered the night passed in the missionary's humble dwelling, when Bertha's knife had confined him there, and he saw again the crucifix and the sacristan.

But this was only for a moment.
The image of the Lady Margaret was sure to enter and banish every other feeling than that of deep love for her.

But from the night of the coronation, a change had fallen upon the youth, which Father Omehr's keen eye had not failed to remark.

He displayed no longer the same thoughtless gayety or the same dreamy abstraction.