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"I am glad," said Agelastes, "if you have found among toys, which I now never wear, and seldom made use of even when life was young with me, anything which may set off your natural advantages.
"Under grant of life," said Agelastes, "it was not done inconsiderately, but in order that the Emperor, ruled ever by the same laws from father to son, might ever be regarded as something beyond the common laws of humanity the divine image of a saint, therefore, rather than a human being."
"He knows its docility, its sensibility, and its fidelity," said the philosopher, in a subdued tone. "True, good Agelastes," said the Princess; "we should not criticise the animal which kneels to take us up. Come, lady of a foreign land," she continued, turning to the Frank Count, and especially his Countess "and you her gallant lord!
I need not say that the whole knowledge, wisdom, and skill of the poor Agelastes is at your Imperial Majesty's disposal." The Emperor paused for a moment, and then said, as if on full consideration, "Worthy Agelastes, I dare trust thee in this difficult and somewhat dangerous matter; but I will keep my purpose of exhibiting to them the lions of Solomon, and the golden tree of our Imperial house."
"Well," said Achilles, "and should not the consciousness of the possibility of this fate render us cautious?" "Cautious men, if you will," answered Agelastes, "but not timid children." "Stone walls can hear," said the Follower, lowering his voice. "Dionysius the tyrant, I have read, had an ear which conveyed to him the secrets spoken within his state-prison at Syracuse."
The black slave drew back as he gave the lamp to the Caesar, and Agelastes followed the light through a long, but narrow, arched passage, well supplied with air from space to space, and not neglected in the inside to the degree which its exterior would have implied. "I will not enter with you into the Gardens," said Agelastes, "or to the bower of Cytherea, where I am too old to be a worshipper.
By all who heard this observation, the Lady Brenhilda was supposed to have made a satirical thrust at the philosopher himself, who, in the imperial court, usually went by the name of the elephant. "No one could describe the beast more accurately than Agelastes," said the Princess, with a smile of intelligence, which went round her attendants.
My grandsire, Kenelm, was wont to say, that the fair words of the heathen philosophy were more hurtful to the Christian faith than the menaces of the heathen tyrants." "I know him," said Agelastes. "What avails it whether it was in the body or in the spirit? "True" said Hereward; "all this is certain and I am the rather bound to remember his words now that he is dead and gone.
"Each land has its customs," said the Count, as he followed his host, with his wife hanging on his arm; "but, Brenhilda, as they are so various, it is little wonder that they appear unseemly to each other. Here, however, in deference to my entertainer, I stoop my crest, in the manner which seems to be required." So saying, he followed Agelastes into the anteroom, where a new scene awaited them.
Let there be largesses, a princely banquet on the farther bank all that may increase their anxiety to pass. Then, Agelastes, we will trust to ourselves to meet this additional danger, either by bribing the venality of Bohemond, or by bidding defiance to the crusaders.
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