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He is not christened yet, and I hear it accuse me, and I am not to blame, I still wait my lord's answer. 'Don't be bothered to read the whole, Livia had said, with her hand out, when his eyes were halfway down the page. Fleetwood turned it, to read the signature: 'Janey. She seemed servile enough to some of her friends. 'Carinthia' would have had a pleasanter sound. He folded the letter.
'She is a girl? cried Lord Fleetwood, frowning over an utter revolution of sentiment at the thought of the beautiful Gorgon being a girl; for, rapid as he was to imagine, he had raised a solid fabric upon his conception of Carinthia the woman, necessarily the woman logically. Who but the woman could look the Gorgon!
They were such pure jewels of tribute to the Carinthia now seen by him as worshipping souls of devotees offer to their Madonna for her most glorious adornment.
She is named Carinthia suitable name for the Welsh pantomimic procession. Or cry out the word in an amphitheatre of Alpine crags, it sounds at home. She is a daughter of the mountains, should never have left them. She is also a daughter of the Old Buccaneer no poor specimen of the fighting Englishman of his day.
That tell-tale nose of old Ben's has mounted the Earl of Fleetwood's colours, and all his party are looking Brailstone-blue. 'So far! said Fleetwood. His grooms took an indication: the hamper was unfastened; sandwiches were handed. Carinthia held one; she tried to nibble, in obedience to her husband's example. Madge refused a bite of food.
'But Owain is not our enemy, said Carinthia, in her deeper tones, expressive of conviction, and not thereby assuring to hear. 'He is a man with men, a child with women. His Rebecca could describe him; I laugh now at some of her sayings of him; I see her mouth, so tenderly comical over her big "simpleton," she called him, and loved him so.
'Is the one more request I mean, a mother's anxiety does not run to the extent of suspecting everybody? 'Some of the children are very pretty, said Carinthia, and eyed the bands of them at their games in the roadway and at the cottage doors. 'Children of the poor have happy mothers. Her eyes were homely, morning over her face.
Immense was the range of vision scudding the peaks and over the illimitable Eastward plains flat to the very East and sources of the sun. Carinthia said: 'When I marry I shall come here to live and die. Her brother glanced at her.
Carinthia sat beside the fire, seeing nothing in the room or on the road. Up in her bedchamber, the girl Madge was at her window. She saw Lord Fleetwood standing alone, laughing, it seemed, at some thought; he threw up his head. Was it a newly married man leaving his bride and laughing?
It even seemed to Pyramus as though her old affection for the Emperor Charles was wholly dead; for when, in November of the following year, agitated to the very depths of his being, he brought her the tidings that the Emperor had been surprised and almost captured at Innsbruck by Duke Maurice of Saxony, who owed him the Elector's hat, and had only escaped the misfortune by a hurried flight to Carinthia, he merely saw a smile, which he did not know how to interpret, on her lips.
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