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Meanwhile Sir Amys dwelt sorrowfully at the court, defending himself as best he might against the wiles of the black-hearted steward, who now received him with smiles and fair words. Nay, he even desired that they should become brothers at arms, but to this Sir Amys replied that, having made oath to one brother at arms, the rules of chivalry did not allow him to take another.
Then, followed by the duchess and Belisante, he entered the palace to gird himself with the armour of Sir Amys. When his helmet and sword were buckled on him, he prayed them to leave him, as he would fain be alone for a short space before he mounted his horse. So the two ladies embraced him and left him, wishing him God-speed.
Rising from her bowered throne in the drawing-room, she took a step towards Lady Amys, pressed her hand cordially not at all feebly and welcomed her with affectionate words. The baronet she addressed as "Willy," but with such a dignity of kindness in the familiar name that it was like bestowal of an honour.
Lady Amys gave the signal of retirement; May and Constance followed; the baronet and the peer chatted for yet a few minutes with their hostess, then bade her good-night. But, just as he was leaving the room, Dymchurch heard Lady Ogram call his name; he stepped back towards her. "I forgot to tell you," she said, "that Mr. Lashmar will lunch with us the day after to-morrow.
None will know you from me, no more than they did of old, and, as to my wife, it was but now I told her that business called me to the most distant parts of my lands, so this very night you can bid her farewell. Sir Amys did as his brother bade him, and Sir Amyle hastened with all speed to the duke's palace. He was only just in time.
Sir Amys hearkened to her words, not knowing if he had heard aright, but, calling his wits to his aid, he answered that she was the daughter of a great prince while he was only the son of a poor knight, and that marriage between them might never be.
There would be fewer Amys in life if there were no Lilian! as there would be far fewer good men of sense if there were no erring dreamer of genius!" "You say well, Allen Fenwick. And who should be so indulgent to the vagaries of the imagination as the philosophers who taught your youth to doubt everything in the Maker's plan of creation which could not be mathematically proved?
He knew that it sounded well, this demand for educational reform; however vague in reality, it gave the ordinary hearer a quasi-intelligible phrase to remember and repeat. Sir William Amys was not proof against the plausibility of such words: he admitted that one might do worse than devote oneself to that question; popular schooling, heaven knew, being much in need of common-sense reform.
"Certainly not," said the other, and abruptly moved away. Lady Amys and Constance stood together near the couch on which Lady Ogram was lying. With a glance in that direction, Lashmar walked towards the door, hesitated a moment, went out into the hall.
Sir William Amys is to be there for a day or two, and Lord Dymchurch " "Lord Dymchurch?" The girl threw off her air of cold concentration, and shone triumphantly. "Does it surprise you, May?" "Oh, I hadn't thought of it I didn't know my aunt had invited him " "The wonder is that Lord Dymchurch should have accepted," said Mrs. Toplady, with a very mature archness.
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