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How tenderly the words "my people" fell from the lips of this young, Venetian woman, who seemed almost a child had their imperious Grecian Queen, Elen
And then the questionings that had come to her hastily and been lost in the recital of the perils and escapes of one so beloved came back with renewed force and would not be quieted, but called out for an answer. When Janus came she would ask him in her staunch fair soul, she knew that she must ask him, though he might be angry and the bare thought of this made her shrink and quail it even shadowed a little the pleasure of his longed-for coming for he had always been so knightly to her. But yet, she could not wait! A great horror came over her of the old Queen, who had been painted as without principle and of wild passions shrinking from nothing so that she might gain her will, and she was glad in her soul that Elen
There he dwelt for many years, the virtual if not the nominal king of North Wales, occasionally no doubt looking down with self-complaisance from the top of his fastness on the parks and fish-ponds of which he had several; his mill, his pigeon tower, his ploughed lands, and the cottages of a thousand retainers, huddled round the lower part of the hill, or strewn about the valley; and there he might have lived and died had not events caused him to draw the sword and engage in a war, at the termination of which Sycharth was a fire-scathed ruin, and himself a broken-hearted old man in anchorite's weeds, living in a cave on the estate of Sir John Scudamore, the great Herefordshire proprietor, who married his daughter Elen, his only surviving child.
So this was why, by Queen Elen
"Nay; it is not strange; for the people entered little into the thought of Queen Carlotta, or Queen Elen
Below, in the chapel, her maidens were decking it as for a festa with vines and blossoms which she and Marco had brought that day that heavenly day from the beautiful island of Sant' Elen
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