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For verily, m'amie, nothing in life has ever been so fair to me as those days when we stood hand in hand on its threshold, and talked, boy-bridegroom and child-bride as we were, of the morrow that lay beyond." "Ah, Richard, even in those days thy ambition sometimes vexed my woman's vanity, and showed me that I could never be all in all to so large a heart!" "Ambition!
"Oh, Elmer I was only a child when I was engaged to Millard " "That's a fact. And you went on being one a good while afterward. The Apex Eagle always head-lined you 'The child-bride' " "I can't see what's the use now ." "That ruled out of court too? See here. Undine what CAN we talk about? I understood that was what we were here for." "Of course." She made an effort at recovery.
The beautiful eyelids fluttered over the soft, blue eyes, and with that dearly loved name on her lips, the poor little child-bride sunk down on the cold, hard earth in a death-like swoon. "Oh, dear me, Harvey, who in the world is this?" cried a little, pleasant-voiced old lady, who had witnessed the young girl enter the gate, and saw her stagger and fall.
Such was the prince to whom Duke Ercole had betrothed his younger daughter, and who had suddenly become one of the chief personages in North Italy. But more than ten years were to elapse before the child-bride even saw her affianced husband.
Poor, little, lonely, heart-broken child-bride! how was she to know Rex had bitterly repented and come back to claim her, alas! too late; and how he mourned her, refusing to be comforted, and how they forced him back from the edge of the treacherous shaft lest he should plunge headlong down the terrible depths. Oh, if she had but known all this!
The surprising thing is that Erasmus should have allowed such letters to be published. In the summer of 1499 Erasmus was carried off to England by another friend whom he had captivated, the young Lord Mountjoy, who had come abroad to study until the child-bride whom he had already married should be old enough to become his wife.
Marina had loved the baby the more passionately, perhaps, for the sake of her only sister Toinetta, Piero's child-bride, who had died at the baby's birth, because she was painfully conscious that Toinetta's little flippant life had needed much forgiveness and had been crowned with little gladness.
He was sorry for the beautiful, haughty heiress, to whom this terrible news would be a great shock; he was sorry for Rex, he had grown so warmly attached to him of late, but he felt still more sorry for the fair child-bride, toward whom he felt such a yearning, sympathetic pity.
Poor little thoughtless Daisy it was done in a moment she had sown the seeds from which was to spring up a harvest of woe so terrible that her wildest imagination could not have painted it. "Are we really married, Rex?" she whispered, as he led her out again into the starlight; "it seems so much like a dream." He bent his handsome head and kissed his pretty child-bride.
Of what avail these twinkling stars these stately leaf-laden trees these cups of fragrance we know as flowers this round wonder of the eyes called Nature? of what avail was God Himself, I widely mused, since even He could not keep one woman true? She whom I loved she as delicate of form, as angel-like in face as the child-bride of Christ, St. Agnes she, even she was what?
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