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"Then I go with you." Instantly Evander paused. "No, no," he said. Brilliana repeated his words. "Why, when are you or I afraid of danger?" There was a noise of running feet in the garden, and then Thoroughgood sped across the moat and into the room. "Captain Halfman has been shot," he gasped. "Oh, by whom?" Brilliana wailed, her eyes wide with horror. "Is he killed?" Evander asked.
"Sir Blaise," cried Master Peter, "there stands our undoing." Brilliana frowned a little and turned to Halfman. "Friend," she said, "will you see order here." "Very blithely," Halfman answered. He commanded the servants. "You, Garlinge and Clupp, see that your prisoners keep silence." Master Paul and Master Peter began to protest in chorus.
"Lady," he said, sighingly, "I kiss your mellifluous fingers and believe myself in Elysium." The languishing glance that accompanied these languishing syllables had no immediate effect upon the lady to whom they were addressed. Still Brilliana looked fixedly at her visitor, and still Sir Blaise found little ease under her steady gaze.
It hath cost him a pang to sacrifice me; he would have sacrificed his son Henry or his son Richard in the like case." Brilliana clasped and unclasped her hands. "I care nothing for his son Henry or his son Richard." "You care nothing for me?" Evander affirmed, slowly. "I do care," she said, hotly.
"Our lady," she whispered to Mistress Satchell, who had barely time to compose her ruffled countenance when Brilliana came through the yew arch and paused on the edge of the pleasaunce surveying the belligerents with an amused smile. "What are you two brawling about?" she asked, as she moved slowly towards the marble seat. Tiffany thrust in the first word.
As I understand, each of you accuses the other of robbing him." Master Paul agreed. Master Peter, gagged behind Clupp's hand, nodded dismally. Brilliana went on. "This is at first blush a dilemma, but our wit makes all clear. Each of you, avowedly in the King's name, did descend upon the dwelling of a disaffected rebel and make certain seizures there which have been duly sent to his Majesty.
"A word with you, I pray you," he said, sourly, "if my good neighbor will give me good leave." Master Rainham withdrew a little way his self-satisfaction and himself, while Master Paul whispered to Brilliana: "You know me now: I am proved your friend. Prithee get rid of that mean huckster." Brilliana desired nothing better.
"We have drifted into reality. I love you. I cannot change my faith for that, I cannot change my flag. But believe this, remember this, that in the Parliament's army one Puritan is as true your lover as all the Cavaliers who worship you." Brilliana turned and looked at him now, very steadfastly: "You do not speak by the book." "No, only by my heart," Evander answered, simply.
Evander answered her bravely. "I know that. I did not hope; but I had to set my soul free. To the end of ends I shall cherish you, live for you, die for you: very lonely, well content." Brilliana turned away. The heart of Juliet within her was big almost to breaking. "The rain ceases; I must go into the air." Even as she spoke, the door opened and Tiffany ran in.
Her words and looks told him temptingly that "your life" meant also "my life" to her. "On what condition?" He knew there must be a condition, knew that the condition troubled Brilliana. She answered him swiftly. "Oh, no condition at all." There came a catch in her voice and then she ran on: "Or almost none. All his Majesty asks is that you refrain from taking any further part in this unhappy war."
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