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'That fellow who owns the donkey the Prince of Sprats? cried Yellow-cap. 'He the son of King Ormund? 'Prince Assimund yes. I spoke to you of him yesterday. A little queer in the head, you know, but that is only a sign of his royalty. 'All this may be so, replied Yellow-cap, stroking his chin; 'but as to my marrying Silvia that seems rather sudden.
"Always perfectly contented," repeated Silvia, closing mamma's mouth with one hand.
But when she came to the palace whither the host conducted a very different effect was produced to what the kind host intended; for there, to her heart's sorrow, she beheld her lover, the inconstant Proteus, serenading the Lady Silvia with music, and addressing discourse of love and admiration to her.
"In the pocket of this cloak," said Valentine, "I have a silken rope ladder, with hooks which will clasp the window-bar of her room." Proteus knew the reason why Silvia and her lover were bent on flight. The Duke intended her to wed Sir Thurio, a gentlemanly noodle for whom she did not care a straw.
But all this moves not Silvia, nymph of the woods and of the chase, and, if she is indeed as fancy-free as she would have us believe, her lover may even console himself with the reflection that If of herself she will not love, Nothing will make her The devil take her! She has, after all, every right to the position.
More fortunate in that respect than he had been before, such opportunity the very next day presented to him. Duke. Sir Valentine! Thur. Yonder is Silvia, and Silvia's mine. Val. Thurio, give back. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. "I think, Mamma," said Lady Flora to her mother, "that as the morning is so beautiful, I will go into the pavilion to finish my drawing."
Both of us have something to say to you." Mamma stared at us in surprise, and Silvia began: "Papa has no money, has he?" "What are you saying?" replied mamma, turning crimson. "Has he not indeed! What do you know about it? Who has told you?" "I know it," said Silvia, resolutely. "Well, then, listen, mamma; we must make some sacrifices, too.
Among other personae we find Apollo and the Sibyls, introduced for the sake of an oracle; Silvia, who more or less fills the office of priestess of Pan, and leads the shepherds to his shrine in a sort of masque; and a very superfluous 'Bonus Genius' of Castarina. This mythological element, however, though suggested, is not, any more than the courtly, put to the fore.
Silvia despised this Thurio, for he had none of the fine sense and excellent qualities of Valentine. These two rivals, Thurio and Valentine, were one day on a visit to Silvia, and Valentine was entertaining Silvia with turning everything Thurio said into ridicule, when the duke himself entered the room, and told Valentine the welcome news of his friend Proteus' arrival.
Not through fear of chastisement, for fear was an emotion unknown to a Polydore, but from astonishment at so unexpected a procedure from so unexpected a source. Heretofore I had either ignored them or frolicked with them. Before they had recovered from their shock, Silvia appeared on the scene.
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