He turned and was cordially greeted by the Count de
la Galissoniere and Herr Kalm, who had sauntered through the garden
of the Castle and directed their steps towards the cape with
intention to call upon the Lady de Tilly and pay their respects to
her before she left the city.
The Bourgeois, learning their intentions, said he would accompany
them, as he too owed a debt of courtesy to the noble lady and her
niece Amelie, which he would discharge at the same time.
The three gentlemen walked gravely on, in pleasant conversation.
The clearness of the moonlit night threw the beautiful landscape,
with its strongly accentuated features, into contrasts of light and
shade to which the pencil of Rembrandt alone could have done
justice. Herr Kalm was enthusiastic in his admiration,--moonlight
over Drachenfels on the Rhine, or the midnight sun peering over the
Gulf of Bothnia, reminded him of something similar, but of nothing
so grand on the whole as the matchless scene visible from Cape
Diamond--worthy of its name.
Lady de Tilly received her visitors with the gracious courtesy
habitual to her.
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