The Episode Called In Ursula's Garden
Her three lovers had praised her with many canzonets and sonnets2 on that May morning as they sat in the rose-garden at Longaville, and the sun-steeped leaves made a tempered aromatic3 shade about them. Afterward4 they had drawn6 grass-blades to decide who should accompany the Lady Ursula to the summer pavilion, that she might fetch her viol and sing them a song of love, and in the sylvan7 lottery8 chance had favored the Earl of Pevensey.
Left to themselves, the Marquis of Falmouth and Master Richard Mervale regarded each the other, irresolutely10, like strange curs uncertain whether to fraternize or to fly at one another's throat. Then Master Mervale lay down in the young grass, stretched himself, twirled his thin black mustachios, and chuckled11 in luxurious12 content.
"Decidedly," said he, "your lordship is past master in the art of wooing; no university in the world would refuse you a degree."
The marquis frowned. He was a great bluff13 man, with wheat-colored hair, and was somewhat slow-witted. After a little he found the quizzical, boyish face that mocked him irresistible14, and he laughed, and unbent from the dignified16 reserve which he had for a while maintained portentously17.
"Master Mervale," said the marquis, "I will be frank with you, for you appear a lad of good intelligence, as lads run, and barring a trifle of affectation and a certain squeamishness in speech. When I would go exploring into a woman's heart, I must pay my way in the land's current coinage of compliments and high-pitched protestations. Yes, yes, such sixpenny phrases suffice the seasoned traveler, who does not ostentatiously display his gems18 while traveling. Now, in courtship, Master Mervale, one traverses ground more dubious19 than the Indies, and the truth, Master Mervale, is a jewel of great price."
Master Mervale raised his eyebrows20. "The truth?" he queried21, gently. "Now how, I wonder, did your lordship happen to think of that remote abstraction." For beyond doubt, Lord Falmouth's wooing had been that morning of a rather florid sort.
However, "It would surely be indelicate," the marquis suggested, "to allow even truth to appear quite unclothed in the presence of a lady?" He smiled and took a short turn on the grass. "Look you, Master Mervale," said he, narrowing his pale-blue eyes to slits22, "I have, somehow, a disposition23 to confidence come upon me. Frankly24, my passion for the Lady Ursula burns more mildly than that which Antony bore the Egyptian; it is less a fire to consume kingdoms than a candle wherewith to light a contented25 home; and quite frankly, I mean to have her. The estates lie convenient, the families are of equal rank, her father is agreed, and she has a sufficiency of beauty; there are, in short, no obstacles to our union save you and my lord of Pevensey, and these, I confess, I do not fear. I can wait, Master Mervale. Oh, I am patient, Master Mervale, but, I own, I cannot brook26 denial. It is I, or no one. By Saint Gregory! I wear steel at my side, Master Mervale, that will serve for other purposes save that of opening oysters27!" So he blustered28 in the spring sunlight, and frowned darkly when Master Mervale appeared the more amused than impressed.
"Your patience shames Job the Patriarch," said Master Mervale, "yet, it seems to me, my lord, you do not consider one thing. I grant you that Pevensey and I are your equals neither in estate nor reputation; still, setting modesty29 aside, is it not possible the Lady Ursula may come, in time, to love one of us?"
"Setting common sense aside," said the marquis, stiffly, "it is possible she may be smitten30 with the smallpox31. Let us hope, however, that she may escape both of these misfortunes."
The younger man refrained from speech for a while. Presently, "You liken love to a plague," he said, "yet I have heard there was once a cousin of the Lady Ursula's—a Mistress Katherine Beaufort—"
"Swounds!" Lord Falmouth had wheeled about, scowled32, and then tapped sharply upon the palm of one hand with the nail-bitten fingers of the other. "Ay," said he, more slowly, "there was such a person."
"She loved you?" Master Mervale suggested.
"God help me!" replied the marquis; "we loved each other! I know not how you came by your information, nor do I ask. Yet, it is ill to open an old wound. I loved her; let that suffice." With a set face, he turned away for a moment and gazed toward the high parapets of Longaville, half-hidden by pale foliage33 and very white against the rain-washed sky; then groaned34, and glared angrily into the lad's upturned countenance35. "You talk of love," said the marquis; "a love compounded equally of youthful imagination, a liking36 for fantastic phrases and a disposition for caterwauling i' the moonlight. Ah, lad, lad!—if you but knew! That is not love; to love is to go mad like a star-struck moth37, and afterward to strive in vain to forget, and to eat one's heart out in the loneliness, and to hunger—hunger—" The marquis spread his big hands helplessly, and then, with a quick, impatient gesture, swept back the mass of wheat-colored hair that fell about his face. "Ah, Master Mervale," he sighed, "I was right after all,—it is the cruelest plague in the world, and that same smallpox leaves less troubling scars."
"Marry!" His lordship snarled39 toward the sun and laughed. "Look you, Master Mervale, I know not how far y'are acquainted with the business. It was in Cornwall yonder years since; I was but a lad, and she a wench,—Oh, such a wench, with tender blue eyes, and a faint, sweet voice that could deny me nothing! God does not fashion her like every day,—Dieu qui la fist de ses deux mains, saith the Frenchman." The marquis paced the grass, gnawing40 his lip and debating with himself. "Marry? Her family was good, but their deserts outranked their fortunes; their crest41 was not the topmost feather in Fortune's cap, you understand; somewhat sunken i' the world, Master Mervale, somewhat sunken. And I? My father—God rest his bones!—was a cold, hard man, and my two elder brothers—Holy Virgin42, pray for them!—loved me none too well. I was the cadet then: Heaven helps them that help themselves, says my father, and I ha'n't a penny for you. My way was yet to make in the world; to saddle myself with a dowerless wench—even a wench whose least 'Good-morning' set a man's heart hammering at his ribs—would have been folly43, Master Mervale. Utter, improvident44, shiftless, bedlamite folly, lad!"
"H'm!" Master Mervale cleared his throat, twirled his mustachios, and smiled at some unspoken thought. "We pay for our follies46 in this world, my lord, but I sometimes think that we pay even more dearly for our wisdom."
"Ah, lad, lad!" the marquis cried, in a gust47 of anger; "I dare say, as your smirking48 hints, it was a coward's act not to snap fingers at fate and fathers and dare all! Well! I did not dare. We parted—in what lamentable50 fashion is now of little import—and I set forth51 to seek my fortune. Ho, it was a brave world then, Master Mervale, for all the tears that were scarce dried on my cheeks! A world wherein the heavens were as blue as a certain woman's eyes,—a world wherein a likely lad might see far countries, waggle a good sword in Babylon and Tripolis and other ultimate kingdoms, beard the Mussulman in his mosque52, and at last fetch home—though he might never love her, you understand—a soldan's daughter for his wife,—
With more gay gold about her middle Than would buy half Northumberlee."
His voice died away. He sighed and shrugged53. "Eh, well!" said the marquis; "I fought in Flanders somewhat—in Spain—what matter where? Then, at last, sickened in Amsterdam, three years ago, where a messenger comes to haul me out of bed as future Marquis of Falmouth. One brother slain54 in a duel55, Master Mervale; one killed in Wyatt's Rebellion; my father dying, and—Heaven rest his soul!—not over-eager to meet his Maker56. There you have it, Master Mervale,—a right pleasant jest of Fortune's perpetration,—I a marquis, my own master, fit mate for any woman in the kingdom, and Kate—my Kate who was past human praising!—vanished."
"Vanished?" The lad echoed the word, with wide eyes.
"Vanished in the night, and no sign nor rumor57 of her since! Gone to seek me abroad, no doubt, poor wench! Dead, dead, beyond question, Master Mervale!" The marquis swallowed, and rubbed his lips with the back of his hand. "Ah, well!" said he; "it is an old sorrow!"
The male animal shaken by strong emotion is to his brothers an embarrassing rather than a pathetic sight. Master Mervale, lowering his eyes discreetly59, rooted up several tufts of grass before he spoke45. Then, "My lord, you have known of love," said he, very slowly; "does there survive no kindliness60 for aspiring61 lovers in you who have been one of us? My lord of Pevensey, I think, loves the Lady Ursula, at least, as much as you ever loved this Mistress Katherine; of my own adoration62 I do not speak, save to say that I have sworn never to marry any other woman. Her father favors you, for you are a match in a thousand; but you do not love her. It matters little to you, my lord, whom she may wed58; to us it signifies a life's happiness. Will not the memory of that Cornish lass—the memory of moonlit nights, and of those sweet, vain aspirations63 and foiled day-dreams that in boyhood waked your blood even to such brave folly as now possesses us,—will not the memory of these things soften64 you, my lord?"
But Falmouth by this time appeared half regretful of his recent outburst, and somewhat inclined to regard his companion as a dangerously plausible65 young fellow who had very unwarrantably wormed himself into Lord Falmouth's confidence. Falmouth's heavy jaw66 shut like a trap.
"By Saint Gregory!" said he; "if ever such notions soften me at all, I pray to be in hell entirely67 melted! What I have told you of is past, Master Mervale; and a wise man does not meditate68 unthriftily upon spilt milk."
"Yet—yet the milk was sweet, my lord?" the boy suggested, with a faint answering smile.
"And if the choice lay between Ursula and Katherine?"
"Oh, fool!—Oh, pink-cheeked, utter ignorant fool!" the marquis groaned.
"Did I not say you knew nothing of love?"
"Heigho!" Master Mervale put aside all glum-faced discussion, with a little yawn, and sprang to his feet. "Then we can but hope that somewhere, somehow, Mistress Katherine yet lives and in her own good time may reappear. And while we speak of reappearances—surely the Lady Ursula is strangely tardy72 in making hers?"
The marquis' jealousy73 when it slumbered74 slept with an open ear. "Let us join them," he said, shortly, and he started through the gardens with quick, stiff strides.
2. Song-guerdon
They went westward75 toward the summer pavilion. Presently the marquis blundered into the green gloom of the maze76, laid out in the Italian fashion, and was extricated77 only by the superior knowledge of Master Mervale, who guided Falmouth skilfully78 and surely through manifold intricacies, to open daylight.
Afterward they came to a close-shaven lawn, where the summer pavilion stood beside the brook that widened here into an artificial pond, spread with lily-pads and fringed with rushes. The Lady Ursula sat with the Earl of Pevensey beneath a burgeoning79 maple80-tree. Such rays as sifted81 through into their cool retreat lay like splotches of wine upon the ground, and there the taller grass-blades turned to needles of thin silver; one palpitating beam, more daring than the rest, slanted82 straight toward the little head of the Lady Ursula, converting her hair into a halo of misty83 gold, that appeared out of place in this particular position. She seemed a Bassarid who had somehow fallen heir to an aureole; for otherwise, to phrase it sedately84, there was about her no clamant suggestion of saintship. At least, there is no record of any saint in the calendar who ever looked with laughing gray-green eyes upon her lover and mocked at the fervor85 and trepidation86 of his speech. This the Lady Ursula now did; and, manifestly, enjoyed the doing of it.
Within the moment the Earl of Pevensey took up the viol that lay beside them, and sang to her in the clear morning. He was sunbrowned and very comely87, and his big, black eyes were tender as he sang to her sitting there in the shade. He himself sat at her feet in the sunlight.
Sang the Earl of Pevensey:
_"Ursula, spring wakes about us—
That so coldly do delay:
When the very birds are mating,
Pray you, why should we be waiting—
We that might be wed to-day!
"'Life is short,' the wise men tell us;—
Even those dusty, musty fellows
That have done with life,—and pass
Hankers, vainly, for a bottle,
Youth and some frank Grecian lass._
"Ah, I warrant you;—and Zeno
Would not reason, now, could he know
One more chance to live and love:
For, at best, the merry May-time
Why, then, waste an hour thereof?
"Plato, Solon, Periander,
Seneca, Anaximander,
Pyrrho, and Parmenides!
Were one hour alone remaining
Learning, or to lips like these?
"Thus, I demonstrate by reason
Now is our predestined season
Seal the bargain with a kiss"_
When he had ended, the Earl of Pevensey laughed and looked up into the Lady Ursula's face with a long, hungry gaze; and the Lady Ursula laughed likewise and spoke kindly97 to him, though the distance was too great for the eavesdroppers to overhear. Then, after a little, the Lady Ursula bent15 forward, out of the shade of the maple into the sun, so that the sunlight fell upon her golden head and glowed in the depths of her hair, as she kissed Pevensey, tenderly and without haste, full upon the lips.
3. Falmouth Furens
The Marquis of Falmouth caught Master Mervale's arm in a grip that made the boy wince98. Lord Falmouth's look was murderous, as he turned in the shadow of a white-lilac bush and spoke carefully through sharp breaths that shook his great body.
"There are," said he, "certain matters I must immediately discuss with my lord of Pevensey. I desire you, Master Mervale, to fetch him to the spot where we parted last, so that we may talk over these matters quietly and undisturbed. For else—go, lad, and fetch him!"
For a moment the boy faced the half-shut pale eyes that were like coals smouldering behind a veil of gray ash. Then he shrugged his shoulders, sauntered forward, and doffed99 his hat to the Lady Ursula. There followed much laughter among the three, many explanations from Master Mervale, and yet more laughter from the lady and the earl. The marquis ground his big, white teeth as he listened, and he appeared to disapprove100 of so much mirth.
"Foh, the hyenas101! the apes, the vile102 magpies103!" the marquis observed. He heaved a sigh of relief, as the Earl of Pevensey, raising his hands lightly toward heaven, laughed once more, and departed into the thicket104. Lord Falmouth laughed in turn, though not very pleasantly. Afterward he loosened his sword in the scabbard and wheeled back to seek their rendezvous105 in the shadowed place where they had made sonnets to the Lady Ursula.
For some ten minutes the marquis strode proudly through the maze, pondering, by the look of him, on the more fatal tricks of fencing. In a quarter of an hour he was lost in a wilderness106 of trim yew-hedges which confronted him stiffly at every outlet107 and branched off into innumerable gravelled alleys108 that led nowhither.
"Swounds!" said the marquis. He retraced110 his steps impatiently. He cast his hat upon the ground in seething111 desperation. He turned in a different direction, and in two minutes trod upon his discarded head-gear.
"Holy Gregory!" the marquis commented. He meditated112 for a moment, then caught up his sword close to his side and plunged113 into the nearest hedge. After a little he came out, with a scratched face and a scant114 breath, into another alley109. As the crow flies, he went through the maze of Longaville, leaving in his rear desolation and snapped yew-twigs. He came out of the ruin behind the white-lilac bush, where he had stood and had heard the Earl of Pevensey sing to the Lady Ursula, and had seen what followed.
The marquis wiped his brow. He looked out over the lawn and breathed heavily. The Lady Ursula still sat beneath the maple, and beside her was Master Mervale, whose arm girdled her waist. Her arm was about his neck, and she listened as he talked eagerly with many gestures. Then they both laughed and kissed each other.
"Oh, defend me!" groaned the marquis. Once more he wiped his brow, as he crouched115 behind the white-lilac bush. "Why, the woman is a second Messalina!" he said. "Oh, the trollop! the wanton! Oh, holy Gregory! Yet I must be quiet—quiet as a sucking lamb, that I may strike afterward as a roaring lion. Is this your innocence116, Mistress Ursula, that cannot endure the spoken name of a spade? Oh, splendor117 of God!"
Thus he raged behind the white-lilac bush while they laughed and kissed under the maple-tree. After a space they parted. The Lady Ursula, still laughing, lifted the branches of the rearward thicket and disappeared in the path which the Earl of Pevensey had taken. Master Mervale, kissing his hand and laughing yet more loudly, lounged toward the entrance of the maze.
The jackanapes (as anybody could see), was in a mood to be pleased with himself. Smiles eddied118 about the boy's face, his heels skipped, disdaining119 the honest grass; and presently he broke into a glad little song, all trills and shakes, like that of a bird ecstasizing over the perfections of his mate.
Sang Master Mervale:
_"Listen, all lovers! the spring is here
And the world is not amiss;
As long as laughter is good to hear,
And lips are good to kiss,
As long as Youth and Spring endure,
There is never an evil past a cure
And the world is never amiss.
"O lovers all, I bid ye declare
The world is a pleasant place;—
Give thanks to God for the gift so fair,
Give thanks for His singular grace!
Give thanks for Youth and Love and Spring!
Give thanks, as gentlefolk should, and sing,
'The world is a pleasant place!'"_
In mid-skip Master Mervale here desisted, his voice trailing into inarticulate vowels120. After many angry throes, a white-lilac bush had been delivered of the Marquis of Falmouth, who now confronted Master Mervale, furiously moved.
4. Love Rises from un-Cytherean Waters
"I have heard, Master Mervale," said the marquis, gently, "that love is blind?"
The boy stared at the white face, that had before his eyes veiled rage with a crooked121 smile. So you may see the cat, tense for the fatal spring, relax and with one paw indolently flip122 the mouse.
"Indeed," said the marquis, courteously124, but without yielding an inch, "it is a very reassuring125 fable: for," he continued, meditatively126, "were the eyes of all lovers suddenly opened, Master Mervale, I suspect it would prove a red hour for the world. There would be both tempers and reputations lost, Master Mervale; there would be sword-thrusts; there would be corpses127, Master Mervale."
"Doubtless, my lord," the lad assented128, striving to jest and have done; "for all flesh is frail129, and as the flesh of woman is frailer130 than that of man, so is it, as I remember to have read, the more easily entrapped131 by the gross snares132 of the devil, as was over-well proved by the serpent's beguiling133 deceit of Eve at the beginning."
"Yet, Master Mervale," pursued the marquis, equably, but without smiling, "there be lovers in the world that have eyes?"
"Doubtless, my lord," said the boy.
"There also be women in the world, Master Mervale," Lord Falmouth suggested, with a deeper gravity, "that are but the handsome sepulchres of iniquity,—ay, and for the major part of women, those miracles which are their bodies, compact of white and gold and sprightly134 color though they be, serve as the lovely cerements of corruption135."
"Doubtless, my lord. The devil, as they say, is homelier with that sex."
"There also be swords in the world, Master Mervale?" purred the marquis.
He touched his own sword as he spoke.
"Now, swords have at least three uses, Master Mervale," Falmouth continued. "With a sword one may pick a cork137 from a bottle; with a sword one may toast cheese about the Twelfth Night fire; and with a sword one may spit a man, Master Mervale,—ay, even an ambling138, pink-faced, lisping lad that cannot boo at a goose, Master Mervale. I have no inclination139, Master Mervale, just now, for either wine or toasted cheese."
"I do not understand you, my lord," said the boy, in a thin voice.
"Indeed, I think we understand each other perfectly," said the marquis. "For I have been very frank with you, and I have watched you from behind this bush."
The boy raised his hand as though to speak.
"Look you, Master Mervale," the marquis argued, "you and my lord of Pevensey and I be brave fellows; we need a wide world to bustle140 in. Now, the thought has come to me that this small planet of ours is scarcely commodious141 enough for all three. There be purgatory142 and Heaven, and yet another place, Master Mervale; why, then, crowd one another?"
"My lord," said the boy, dully, "I do not understand you."
"Holy Gregory!" scoffed143 the marquis; "surely my meaning is plain enough! it is to kill you first, and my lord of Pevensey afterward! Y'are phoenixes144, Master Mervale, Arabian birds! Y'are too good for this world. Longaville is not fit to be trodden under your feet; and therefore it is my intention that you leave Longaville feet first. Draw, Master Mervale!" cried the marquis, his light hair falling about his flushed, handsome face as he laughed joyously145, and flashed his sword in the spring sunshine.
The boy sprang back, with an inarticulate cry; then gulped146 some dignity into himself and spoke. "My lord," he said, "I admit that explanation may seem necessary."
"You will render it, if to anybody, Master Mervale, to my heir, who will doubtless accord it such credence147 as it merits. For my part, having two duels148 on my hands to-day, I have no time to listen to a romance out of the Hundred Merry Tales."
Falmouth had placed himself on guard; but Master Mervale stood with chattering149 teeth and irresolute9, groping hands, and made no effort to draw. "Oh, the block! the curd-faced cheat!" cried the marquis. "Will nothing move you?" With his left hand he struck at the boy.
Thereupon Master Mervale gasped150, and turning with a great sob151, ran through the gardens. The marquis laughed discordantly152; then he followed, taking big leaps as he ran and flourishing his sword.
So they came to the bank of the artificial pond. Master Mervale swerved155 as with an oath the marquis pounced156 at him. Master Mervale's foot caught in the root of a great willow157, and Master Mervale splashed into ten feet of still water, that glistened158 like quicksilver in the sunlight.
"Oh, Saint Gregory!" the marquis cried, and clasped his sides in noisy mirth; "was there no other way to cool your courage? Paddle out and be flogged, Master Hare-heels!" he called. The boy had come to the surface and was swimming aimlessly, parallel to the bank. "Now I have heard," said the marquis, as he walked beside him, "that water swells159 a man. Pray Heaven, it may swell160 his heart a thousandfold or so, and thus hearten him for wholesome161 exercise after his ducking—a friendly thrust or two, a little judicious162 bloodletting to ward5 off the effects of the damp."
The marquis started as Master Mervale grounded on a shallow and rose, dripping, knee-deep among the lily-pads. "Oh, splendor of God!" cried the marquis.
Master Mervale had risen from his bath almost clean-shaven; only one sodden163 half of his mustachios clung to his upper lip, and as he rubbed the water from his eyes, this remaining half also fell away from the boy's face.
"Oh, splendor of God!" groaned the marquis. He splashed noisily into the water. "O Kate, Kate!" he cried, his arms about Master Mervale. "Oh, blind, blind, blind! O heart's dearest! Oh, my dear, my dear!" he observed.
Master Mervale slipped from his embrace and waded164 to dry land. "My lord,—" he began, demurely165.
"My lady wife,—" said his lordship of Falmouth, with a tremulous smile. He paused, and passed his hand over his brow. "And yet I do not understand," he said. "Y'are dead; y'are buried. It was a frightened boy I struck." He spread out his strong arms. "O world! O sun! O stars!" he cried; "she is come back to me from the grave. O little world! small shining planet! I think that I could crush you in my hands!"
"Meanwhile," Master Mervale suggested, after an interval166, "it is I that you are crushing." He sighed,—though not very deeply,—and continued, with a hiatus: "They would have wedded167 me to Lucius Rossmore, and I could not—I could not—"
"He was wealthy," said Master Mervale. Then he sighed once more. "There seemed only you,—only you in all the world. A man might come to you in those far-off countries: a woman might not. I fled by night, my lord, by the aid of a waiting-woman; became a man by the aid of a tailor; and set out to find you by the aid of such impudence169 as I might muster170. But luck did not travel with me. I followed you through Flanders, Italy, Spain,—always just too late; always finding the bird flown, the nest yet warm. Presently I heard you were become Marquis of Falmouth; then I gave up the quest."
"I would suggest," said the marquis, "that my name is Stephen;—but why, in the devil's name, should you give up a quest so laudable?"
"Stephen Allonby, my lord," said Master Mervale, sadly, "was not Marquis of Falmouth; as Marquis of Falmouth, you might look to mate with any woman short of the Queen."
"To tell you a secret," the marquis whispered, "I look to mate with one beside whom the Queen—not to speak treason—is but a lean-faced, yellow piece of affectation. I aim higher than royalty171, heart's dearest,—aspiring to one beside whom empresses are but common hussies."
"And Ursula?" asked Master Mervale, gently.
"Holy Gregory!" cried the marquis, "I had forgot! Poor wench, poor wench! I must withdraw my suit warily,—firmly, of course, yet very kindlily, you understand, so as to grieve her no more than must be. Poor wench!—well, after all," he hopefully suggested, "there is yet Pevensey."
"O Stephen! Stephen!" Master Mervale murmured; "Why, there was never any other but Pevensey! For Ursula knows all,—knows there was never any more manhood in Master Mervale's disposition than might be gummed on with a play-actor's mustachios! Why, she is my cousin, Stephen,—my cousin and good friend, to whom I came at once on reaching England, to find you, favored by her father, pestering172 her with your suit, and the poor girl well-nigh at her wits' end because she might not have Pevensey. So," said Master Mervale, "we put our heads together, Stephen, as you observe."
"Indeed," my lord of Falmouth said, "it would seem that you two wenches have, between you, concocted173 a very pleasant comedy."
"It was not all a comedy," sighed Master Mervale,—"not all a comedy,
Stephen, until to-day when you told Master Mervale the story of Katherine
Beaufort. For I did not know—I could not know—"
"And now?" my lord of Falmouth queried.
"H'm!" cried Master Mervale, and he tossed his head. "You are very unreasonable174 in anger! you are a veritable Turk! you struck me!"
The marquis rose, bowing low to his former adversary175. "Master Mervale," said the marquis, "I hereby tender you my unreserved apologies for the affront176 I put upon you. I protest I was vastly mistaken in your disposition and hold you as valorous a gentleman as was ever made by barbers' tricks; and you are at liberty to bestow177 as many kisses and caresses178 upon the Lady Ursula as you may elect, reserving, however, a reasonable sufficiency for one that shall be nameless. Are we friends, Master Mervale?"
Master Mervale rested his head upon Lord Falmouth's shoulder, and sighed happily. Master Mervale laughed,—a low and gentle laugh that was vibrant179 with content. But Master Mervale said nothing, because there seemed to be between these two, who were young in the world's recaptured youth, no longer any need of idle speaking.
* * * * *
JUNE 1, 1593
"She was the admirablest lady that ever lived: therefore, Master Doctor, if you will do us that favor, as to let us see that peerless dame180, we should think ourselves much beholding181 unto you."
_There was a double wedding some two weeks later in the chapel182 at Longaville: and each marriage appears to have been happy enough.
The tenth Marquis of Falmouth had begotten183 sixteen children within seventeen years, at the end of which period his wife unluckily died in producing a final pledge of affection. This child, a daughter, survived, and was christened Cynthia: of her you may hear later.
Meanwhile the Earl and the Countess of Pevensey had propagated more moderately; and Pevensey had played a larger part in public life than was allotted184 to Falmouth, who did not shine at Court. Pevensey, indeed, has his sizable niche185 in history: his Irish expeditions, in 1575, were once notorious, as well as the circumstances of the earl's death in that year at Triloch Lenoch. His more famous son, then a boy of eight, succeeded to the title, and somewhat later, as the world knows, to the hazardous186 position of chief favorite to Queen Elizabeth.
"For Pevensey has the vision of a poet,"—thus Langard quotes the lonely old Queen,—"and to balance it, such mathematics as add two and two correctly, where you others smirk49 and assure me it sums up to whatever the Queen prefers. I have need of Pevensey: in this parched187 little age all England has need of Pevensey."
That is as it may have been: at all events, it is with this Lord
Pevensey, at the height of his power, that we have now to do.
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rogue
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willow
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wholesome
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muster
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unreasonable
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chapel
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