I am sure I looked like a pie in human shape when you first saw me, did I not ?" "It would have been difficult to tell the colour of your uniform, certainly," Maria smiled.

"Fortunately, neither cloth nor tailors are scarce in our good town of Dort, and you will find a fresh suit in readiness for you to attire yourself in tomorrow." "Oh, that is good of you," Rupert said, delighted; for he had been thinking ruefully of the spectacle he should present the next day.
As to Hugh, he had been fitted out in bourgeois clothes since he came, and had said no word as to uniform.
In another fortnight Rupert was thoroughly restored to health.

His wound had healed, his bones had perfectly set, and he was as fit for work as ever.

Even his host could not but allow that there was no cause for his further detention.

During this time Rupert had talked much with the Burgomaster, who spoke French fluently, and had told him frequently and earnestly of the grievous harm that was done to the prospects of the war by the mischievous interference with the general's plans by the Dutch deputies, who, knowing nothing whatever of war, yet took upon themselves continually to thwart the plans of the greatest general of the age.