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Evander answered, very earnest now: "'By a name I know not how to tell thee who I am: My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, Because it is an enemy to thee: Had I it written, I would tear the word." Brilliana's voice faltered as she took up the tale. "'My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?"
The central portion of the country to which Æneas came is that known as Italia, the inhabitants of which were of the same origin as the Greeks. Evander was a son of Mercury, and he found that the king of the country he had come to was Turnus, who was also a relative of the immortal gods.
Evander went composedly on: "He is rated a King's man, and would serve his master well if much tippling of healths and clearing of trenchers were yeoman service in a time of war. But his sword sleeps in its sheath." "Now, by St. George " Sir Blaise yelled, raising his clinched fists.
They raise their arms mightily in responsive time, and turn the mass of metal about in the grasp of their tongs. While the lord of Lemnos is busied thus in the borders of Aeolia, Evander is roused from his low dwelling by the gracious daylight and the matin songs of birds from the eaves.
The last blow was so surely delivered that had it been given with greater force it might have knocked the receiver senseless. As it was, however, it was given with such deliberate delicacy that, though Halfman's head hummed for the moment and his eyes saw stars, he rallied quickly enough to stare at Evander where he stood with lowered point and to tender him a salutation of honest admiration.
The audience received me very kindly, however, and after a little while I recovered my breath and self-possession, and got on very comfortably, considering that, what with nervousness and the short time they had had to study them in, none of the actors were perfect in their parts. My father acted Evander, which added, no doubt, to the interest of the situation.
"Nonsense, man; what are you thinking of? You will be riding hence in three days' time, when Sir Randolph is released." Evander shook his head. "Sir Randolph will not be released," he said. The quiet positiveness in his tone staggered Halfman. Stooping, with his hands resting on his knees, his unquiet eyes stared into Evander's quiet eyes. "Sir Randolph will not be released!
Brilliana, lifting her head, looked over the green wall of yews to where, in the cool, gray-blue of the October sky, the royal standard fluttered its gaudy folds in the wind. She said nothing, but her smile spoke whole volumes of victories; the panegyrics of a thousand triumphs gleamed in her eyes. Evander read smile and gleam rightly. "True, I failed," he admitted.
Brilliana laid a hand for a moment on his shoulder and spoke in a soft, even voice. "You have been my enemy; you have been my friend; you are now the one man in all the world for me. Read in my heart that I thank God to have known you, that I thank God that I love you. Remember, I love you, Evander. Farewell." Then she saluted the King and went slowly out of the room without looking back.
Evander looked up at her with his finger on a page. "Shall we read 'Romeo and Juliet'?" "I know that play by root of heart," Brilliana said. "Truly, so do I," said Evander. Brilliana was silent, pensive, a finger on her lip, considering some project. Then she said, doubtfully: "You spoke the other day of women players, a thing that seemed to me incredible.
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