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In his courtliest manner he lifted her, raised her right hand to his lips and kissed it, and then signifying to her with a gesture to go to Evander, he seated himself at the table and wrote rapidly for some seconds, while the two lovers stood side by side, silent in hope and joy.
"Well," continued Luke, "for that he deserves to be hanged, and yet he has taught me a trick of grafting roses which he says the Dutch use that might serve to save a worser man from the gallows." Without a word Halfman shook his arm free and rejoined Evander, who was moving slowly along a pathway leading towards an enclosure of fantastically clipped yews.
At that time Evander, who had fled from the Peloponnesus, ruled this country more by his credit and reputation than absolute sway.
Here Evander's science wearied him, and he fairly dragged his captive away, declaring that there was yet much to see more honorable than herbs or brambles. Evander obeyed very contentedly, but they had not moved many paces when Luke came hobbling after, and, catching Halfman, drew him by the arm apart. "Is yonder truly a damnable Roundhead?" he questioned. Halfman nodded his head.
Turnus and Evander became fast friends, and it is said that Turnus taught his neighbors the art of writing, which he had himself learned from Hercules, but this is one of the transparent fictions of the story. It may be that he taught them music and the arts of social life, and gave them good laws. What ever became of good Evander we do not know.
"MADAM, The prisoner with whom you claim kinship was sentenced to be shot as a spy this morning. My loving greetings to my very dear friend, Mr. Cloud, who, if you chose enough to murder him, will, I know, meet death as a Christian soldier should. "The wicked villain," Brilliana cried. "Nay, lady," Evander argued tranquilly he must carry himself well now "the true captain doing his duty.
Like Evander, he went, no one knew where, though one of his friends presented himself in the forum and assured the people under oath that one day, as he was going along the road, he met Romulus coming toward him, dressed in shining armor, and looking comelier than ever.
When he had gone on this business she turned to Evander. "Well," she said, "have you found the key to the riddle?" "You have made these two neighbors plunder each other?" he hazarded. Brilliana nodded gleefully, and then, guessing at disapproval in his gravity, she asserted, defiantly: "It was for the King's cause. Everything is right for the King's cause."
"You made merry with me just now in ease and safety, a lady being by." Evander shrugged his shoulders. "Had no lady been by I should have been more merry and less tender." Sir Blaise scowled. "I am ill to provoke, my master. Those quarrels end sadly that are quarrels picked with me." Again Evander shrugged his shoulders. "I pick no quarrel, sir.
Evander reaped a reward for which he had not labored in his chivalry to a belligerent and besieged lady. For the gardens that a conqueror had preserved were now very fair indeed for a conquered man to walk in.
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