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The king and Remand followed into another room where they met a young man who was to be their escort. The first now retired, and the young man advanced and shook their hands. "Be seated for a moment," said he. "My name is Paulus. I am to conduct you into the city, and be your guide for the day. Such is the rule here." The speaker also took a seat by the table.
Nothing was settled that night as to the disposal of the prizes, but on the following forenoon it was arranged that, as both the Quebec and ourselves were getting short of provisions and water, we should escort the prizes into Port Royal, and at the same time avail ourselves of the opportunity to revictual.
The captain of the whip-bearers went up to their commander, and, seconded by the shouts of the crowd, begged him to escort the stranger to the palace. During this colloquy the traveller had mounted his servant's horse, and now followed in the wake of the Persians. The good news flew like wind through the huge city.
After playing a sonata, Mdlle. d'O asked me if I would go to a concert. I replied that, being in her company, nothing could make me stir. "But would you, mademoiselle, like to go?" "Yes, I should like to go very well, but I cannot go by myself." "If I might presume to offer to escort you . . . but I dare not think you would accept."
He was also kind-hearted to a fault, and when he beheld the poor woman in despair, he put an end to the difficulty by saying: "Very well, my lady, then I will escort you to Pest myself." At this Hátszegi fairly lost all patience. "Why, what can you be thinking of?" cried he.
The cavalcade provoked no comments from the spectators, nor was any word uttered by the escort. Only when the gulch which marked the uttermost limit of Poker Flat was reached, the leader spoke briefly and to the point. The exiles were forbidden to return at the peril of their lives.
He told them that they might visit every part of his country, and when the time arrived for proceeding to Uganda, he would escort them to the boundary. Altogether, Rumanika was the most intelligent and best-looking ruler the travellers met with in Africa. He had nothing of the African in his appearance, except that his hair was short and woolly.
Four Lorraine nobles hastened to the spot, when they heard the tidings, to show honour to the man who had been their accepted lord for a brief period, and they acted as escort as the burden was carried into the town and placed in a suitable chamber in the home of one George Marquiez. There seems to have been no insult offered to the fallen man, no lack of deference in the proceedings.
Port-Royal, to which most of the ships were bound, was reached at length, when another man-of-war took charge of the rest to escort them to their destinations. Dick had not concealed from those he could trust his intention of deserting.
Macentes had completed the resemblance by cropping his hair to the right shortness, and was thus enabled to pass for a kinsman of Mastira and Mazaea. 'And now, Adyrmachus, he concluded, 'I am ready to go with you to Bosphorus; or, if you prefer it, I will escort your bride. 'If you will do the latter, replied Adyrmachus, 'I shall be particularly obliged, since you are Mazaea's kinsman.
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