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"My husband and I were very fond of each other. We were the best of friends and good companions. Of course he had his military duties to attend to and was often absent " "And you stayed at home and kept house," interpolated Morgana, musingly "I see! That is what all wives have to do! But I suppose he just adored you?" Lady Kingswood smiled.
"Well, then, help them now," said Rivardi "Give them the chance to learn your secret!" Morgana moved away from the column where she had leaned, and came more fully into the broad moonlight. "My dear Marchese Giulio!" she said, indulgently, "You really are a positive child in your very optimistic look-out on the world of to-day!
"What it would be if one were young once more!" And then she turned, slowly pacing across the loggia and entering the Palazzo, where the gleam of electric lamps within rivalled the moonbeams and drew her out of sight. Meanwhile, Morgana, between her two escorts stepped lightly along, playfully arguing with them both on their silence.
His nature was ill attuned to romance of any kind, but he felt a certain compassion for this girl, so richly dowered with physical beauty, and smitten with love for a man like Roger Seaton who, according to his own account, had no belief in love's existence. And the "fairy woman" she spoke of who could that be but Morgana Royal?
She stopped when about three paces away from the sleeping man and watched him with a wonderful tenderness. Her lips quivered sweetly her lovely eyes shone with a soft wistfulness, she looked indeed, as Morgana had said of her, "quite beautiful." Instinctively aware in slumber that he was not alone, Seaton stirred opened his eyes, and sprang up. "What!
You are a great lawyer worshipped by your party and in the line of succession to its highest gift, fixed in your state and county and happy in your home, rounding out your life with all that makes life worthy to be lived, "Honour, love, obedience, troops of friends. "Is not the picture fair enough, sir? There is in it no mirage, no Fata Morgana, no marsh fire.
One is astonished and a little thoughtful for awhile. My fate is very odd. While the real thing for which alone I care remains enveloped in the most German mist of impossibility. H.'s diplomatic skill has arranged for me all manner of Paris glories, which float before me mockingly like a "Fata Morgana." Heaven only knows what will come of this "Tannhauser" scheme.
Remembering how prominently fairies figured in my legends of chivalry, I almost fancied that Morgana or Urganda had come among us to administer justice; and, for the moment, I felt an inclination to throw myself on my knees and protest against any judgment which should confound me with my uncles.
The loving Fairy, Morgana, had had the art to change it, and to substitute one of her own procuring, and when Charles drew it out of the scabbard, these words appeared written on the steel: "My name is Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durindana."
The Devil thereupon consults the Fay Morgana, who tells him that Merlin will lose his power if he falls in love. In the opening scene King Arthur sends Lancelot to Merlin for aid, who promises him victory and achieves it by the assistance of his familiar, a demon, who is in league with the Devil.
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