text:  In these troubled but precious moments it was that Gerald's young heart first awakened to love; and when upon the death of his uncle Colonel Lyle who never recovered the wounds he had received upon the field of Naseby old Lazarus Seaman received the command of the regiment it was again the bright eyes of pretty Mistress Mildred that served as a loadstone to attach him to it and to attract him to follow the troop which garrisoned the lone mansion upon the eastern coast of England; for Colonel Lazarus Seaman was the governor or commander of this impromptu sort of fortress; and Colonel Lazarus Seaman's daughter his only and motherless child quitted her father's side as little as possible