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There was the usual hasty account of his life, but by some magic that had perhaps root in Peter's own will, no mention was made of his marriage. Christopher wrote home on the subject this-wise: "It seems to me the more terrible since I think he was a man who never believed any such mischance could dare to happen to him.
Cæsar objected to this experiment, and when the next catastrophe occurred, which was to a guinea-pig, a more commonplace funeral had to be organised. But this tragedy became curiously enough linked with a new memory in Christopher's mind, of more lasting importance than the demise of "Sir Joshua Reynolds" of the brown spots. It happened this-wise.
"By the name of God," saith the other, "Meseemeth it clear that the Vavasour would fain that knights should kill each other." "Sir," saith the damsel, "You say true; it is of his covetise of harness and horses that he entreateth the knights on this-wise." "Damsel," saith Messire Gawain, "Whither go you?" "Sir," saith she, "After a knight that I have made be carried in a litter for the dead."
They had a son by and by; but their course otherwise, and indeed this-wise too, was much checkered. King Johann, seeing the Tyrol gone in this manner, gloomed terribly upon his Crown-Prince; flung him aside as a Nullity, "Go to Moravia, out of sight, on an apanage, you; be Crown-Prince no longer!"
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