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"It is wonderful!" she murmured "I can hardly believe it possible that I should meet here in London a real Jocelyn! one of the family of the Sieur Amadis!" "Does it seem strange?" He laughed. "Oh no! Nothing is strange in this queer little world! But I don't quite know what the exact connection is between me and your knight it's too difficult for me to grasp!
Don Quixote is mad; he is old, useless, and ridiculous, but he is the soul of honour, and in all his laughable adventures we follow him like the ghost of our better selves. We enjoy his discomfitures too much to wish he had been a perfect Amadis; and we have besides a shrewd suspicion that he is the only kind of Amadis there can ever be in this world.
All they were sensible of was one of those confused moments, deafening, blinding, filled with violence and rage and din an eternity in semblance, a second in duration that can never be traced, never be recalled; yet in whose feverish excitement men do that which, in their calmer hours, would look to them a fable of some Amadis of Gaul.
I've walked quite a long way but I felt I must come back to you, Amadis! just to ask you once more to say a kind word-to kiss me..." She closed her eyes again and her head fell back on the pillow of the chair in which she lay. Priscilla's heart sank.
She turned deathly pale then flushed a faint crimson a sense of giddy faintness overcame her, she put up her hands to her head tremblingly, and loosening her hat took it off as though its weight oppressed her. "I I am not unreasonable, Amadis," she faltered "only I don't understand "
But as it is not right to keep thee any longer in suspense, waiting to see what comes of my words, I would have thee know, Sancho, that the famous Amadis of Gaul was one of the most perfect knights-errant I am wrong to say he was one; he stood alone, the first, the only one, the lord of all that were in the world in his time.
Instead of holy writ she shall read 'Amadis de Gaule, and such books of pastime which discourse de amore; and instead of knitting and sewing she shall learn to dance a galdiarde, and such courtoisies as are the mode of our country and suitable to her rank." The reply was careless, flippant, almost contemptuous.
'In the first place, O Amadis! I never said she was young. You're on the scent, I see. Nursing the fresh image of his darling in his heart's recesses, Evan, as they entered Fallowfield, laid the state of his purse before Jack, and earned anew the epithet of Amadis, when it came to be told that the occupant of the waggon was likewise one of its pensioners.
"Name it as you list," replied Lindesay; "had the Regent desired to send an envoy capable to speak to a captive Queen, there are many gallants in his court who would have courted the occasion to make speeches out of Amadis of Gaul, or the Mirror of Knighthood.
If a man, after ten years' happiness, were not as respectful and as delicate as he was to me at first, I should resent the change; it would abase me in my own eyes! Such a lover could not believe in the Amadis and the Cyrus of my dreams. To-day true love is but a dream, not a reality. I see in yours only the joy of a desire the end of which is, as yet, unperceived by you.
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