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The duchesse de Grammont and her brother are not the persons to give up the field without striking a blow. But, madame, by the assistance of your happy and lovely star, I will enter the lists with pleasure, and if a glance of your eyes will recompense a conqueror, I shall be he." "Oh," exclaimed the duke, "my nephew's a second Amadis in gallantry, and of undaunted courage.
"It has all been her own fault," he mused, trying to excuse and to console himself "She fell into my arms as easily as a ripe peach falls at a touch that childish fancy about 'Amadis de Jocelin' did the trick! Curious! very curious that a sixteenth-century member of my own family tree should be mixed up in my affair with this girl! Of course she'll say nothing, there's nothing to say!
"You are very fascinating this afternoon! Are you bent on some new conquest?" She gave him a sweet look. "Why will you talk nonsense, my Amadis!" she said "You know I never wish for 'conquests' as you call them, I only want you! Nothing but you!"
Southey, perhaps, ranks Palmerin too high in the literary scale by placing it on a level with Amadis, and averring that he knew "no romance and no epic in which suspense is so successfully kept up." Of their successors, the long line of sons, grandsons and nephews, each more valiant and puissant than the last, it must be said that they are as scant of beauty as of grace.
But don't treat her unkindly. Don't make love to another woman before her face, even if she be your wife. Don't do it. Always be polite, even should she fancy somebody better than you. If your mother, my dear Amadis, had not fancied your father better than somebody, you might have been that somebody's son. Consider this. Always be a philosopher, even about women. Few men understand women.
And what she was thinking of now, was this: Should she tell her lately discovered second "Amadis de Jocelyn" the true story of her birth and parentage at this, the outset of their friendship, before well, before it went any further?
The Arcadia and Euphues, the former continuously, the latter by revival after an interval, exercised very great effect in the first half of the seventeenth century, during at least the earlier part of which the vogue of Amadis and its successors, as Englished by Anthony Munday and others, likewise continued.
"Heyday!" said the Count, "I have come between Amadis and Oriana, and must expect a challenge to the lists!" Amadis is represented as a model of chivalry. "You speak as if that were an impossibility," said Quentin. "When I broke a lance with the Duke of Orleans, it was against a head in which flowed better blood than that of Crevecoeur.
She forced a smile, and her delicate white hands wandered caressingly through his hair as he laid his head against her bosom. "I am sorry!" she said, at last "I thought I hoped you might be proud of my work, Amadis! I was planning it all for that!
The romance of chivalry was the natural growth of this fashion of knight-errantry; and, like its parent, flourished nowhere so luxuriantly as in Spain. Amadis Of Gaul and Belianis Of Greece are, in fact, as much "racy of the soil" as Don Quixote itself. There were some simple or devout enough to take the romance for a gospel, who believed in Amadis as much as in any other hero or saint.
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