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Updated: June 12, 2025
I was talking to you of marriage, last night, and what you said about your age was ridiculous. You are a man, and a warrior. I now offer you the hand of my sister Amenche. She loves you, as Maclutha and I have seen for some time.
If matters go on well, Montezuma himself will doubtless be present at his niece's marriage; and I shall, of course, invite Malinzin and all his officers." The prince left the room, and in a few minutes returned with his wife, the latter leading Amenche by the hand. "My friend, Roger Hawkshaw," the young king said, gravely; "I hereby promise to bestow upon you the hand of my sister Amenche.
"I heard it yesterday afternoon, Cacama; and crossed at nightfall to Tezcuco, with the news." "You saw my wife?" Cacama asked eagerly. "How is she? How does she bear the blow?" "She was lost in grief when I first arrived there, but the necessity for action aroused her. She and Amenche agreed that they would not await the coming of the usurper today.
Had it not been for Cacama's death, I should have said it were best that you should marry Amenche, at once; but among us, it would be most unseemly for a sister to think of marrying, when her brother has but just died." "It is the same with us," Roger said. "A certain time must always pass, after the death of a near relative, before marriage.
Presently Amenche, who had been sitting nestled close to Roger too happy even to speak sat up and said: "Hush!" Bathalda ceased rowing. "There is a large canoe coming up behind us," he said, listening intently. "I can hear others on the lake, beyond us." "We had better make into the shore again," Roger said, "and let them pass us."
I shall miss you sorely, indeed. However, I know that you and Amenche will be happy together. "Princess, I have something of yours," and she held up a heavy girdle. Amenche gave a cry of joy. "I missed it," she said, "but I thought that it must have fallen off in the boat, or as Roger carried me thence to the castle. "See, Roger," she said, holding it out to them, "this is my dowry.
"The gods have, indeed, deserted us," he said; "when they have turned a monarch who was considered brave and honorable into a base slave. May their vengeance fall upon him! May the curse of our ruined country descend upon the man who is the real author of our misfortunes!" "Do you think, Cuitcatl," Amenche asked, "that the people will receive this usurper?"
The queen and princess and the two ladies took their seats in them, and the three bundles of valuables were also placed inside. "I shall love you I shall love you until death," Amenche sobbed out, and then the procession moved away, leaving Roger standing by himself. Skirting the outside wall of the garden, he made his way to the shore of the lake. He found the boatmen asleep in their canoe.
"It has a strange grand sound, and will impress the people; but I will call you Roger. This is my queen and first wife, Maclutha. This is my sister, Amenche. These are two of my oldest and ablest counselors both are great nobles, and have led the armies of my father to victory.
Amenche was lying, without a vestige of color on her face, and with her eyes closed and her breathing so faint that Roger, as he looked at her, thought that she was dead. "Take her hand and kneel down beside her," Malinche whispered. Roger took the girl's hand. As he did so, a slight tremor ran through her, as if she recognized his touch. Then her eyes opened.
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