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When the feast was over, and the young man returned home, his manner was so strange that it drew the attention of all his friends. Through his work next day the youth continued to see the girl's face, throwing the ball to her companions, or threading her way between them as she danced.
The hero of the day was still alive and in excellent health; but he did not quite trust his family, and wishing to make sure that his death-feast would not be forgotten, he held it during his lifetime. His anxiety about the feast is explained by the following facts.
In this case it is not a king but a person in a private station who provides the feast; and the occasion of the rejoicing is not the marriage of the entertainer's son. It is an ordinary example of hospitality exercised by an affluent citizen.
Next, female slaves splendidly dressed walk round laughing and romping with all whom they meet. These girls also perform a sort of fight among themselves, like those who on that day took their share in the fight with the Latins: and afterwards they sit down to a feast, under the shade of fig-tree boughs.
And then she thought of the book she had been reading the night before a certain delightful story book, about a little girl whose name was Flora, and who was so happy and rich and pretty and good that Jem had likened her to the little princesses one reads about, to whose christening feast every fairy brings a gift.
"Darling cuckoo!" cried Scrub, "bring me a golden one." And Spare, looking up from the green leaf on which he gazed as though it were a crown-jewel, said: "Be sure to bring me one from the merry tree." And away flew the cuckoo once again. "This is the Feast of All Fools, and it ought to be your birthday," said Scrub. "Did ever man fling away such a chance of becoming rich!
There's a lovely lake there, Patty, and boats to row about in, and tables for the feast and everything." "How many shall you invite?" said Uncle Charlie. "I'll engage stages to take us all over." "I want to go," said Edith. "Mayn't I, mamma?" "Of course you may," said Mrs. Elliott; "we'll take the whole family, from grandma down to little Gilbert."
Shut out of the galleries with still two hours to spare, the party decided to take a short walk and filled up the interval in climbing to the top of the Vendome monument. Then the wedding party, feeling very lively, sat down to the long-desired feast. The repast was pronounced fairly good.
Then the headman was dumbfounded and reluctantly brought out five gold pieces and gave them to the woman. She gave five rupees to the villagers and they made the headman give them ten rupees for having deceived them, and they bought pigs and had a feast. In the course of time the boy grew up and his mother urged him to marry.
Froude gives a notion of the style of living in earlier times by citing the details of a feast given when George Neville, brother of Warwick the king-maker, was made archbishop of York. There were present, including servants, thirty-five hundred persons.
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