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Updated: June 16, 2025
She turned to me, with that high, sweet look of hers, and then, as her eyes rested in mine and her hands too then suddenly there blazed out between us a farther glory, instant, overwhelming quite beyond any words of mine to tell. Celis was a blue-and-gold-and-rose person; Alma, black-and-white-and-red, a blazing beauty.
So we grew together in friendship and happiness, Ellador and I, and so did Jeff and Celis. When it comes to Terry's part of it, and Alima's, I'm sorry and I'm ashamed. Of course I blame her somewhat. She wasn't as fine a psychologist as Ellador, and what's more, I think she had a far-descended atavistic trace of more marked femaleness, never apparent till Terry called it out.
The alliance, short of royal birth, was, in the matter of dignity, all that could be wished; the Stolbergs were one of the most illustrious families of the Holy Roman Empire, in whose service they had discharged many high offices; the Horns, on the other hand, were among the most brilliant of the Flemish aristocracy, allied to the Gonzagas of Mantua, the Colonna, Orsinis, the Medina Celis, Croys, Lignes, Hohenzollerns, and the house of Lorraine, reigning or quasi-reigning families; and Louise of Stolberg's mother was, moreover, on the maternal side, the grand-daughter of the Earl of Elgin and Ailesbury, a Bruce, and a staunch follower of King James II. Such had been the inducements in the eyes of the Duke of Fitz-James; and therefore in the eyes of Charles Edward, for whom he was commissioned to select a wife.
He accepted the angel theory, swallowed it whole, tried to force it on us with varying effect. He so worshipped Celis, and not only Celis, but what she represented; he had become so deeply convinced of the almost supernatural advantages of this country and people, that he took his medicine like a I cannot say "like a man," but more as if he wasn't one. Don't misunderstand me for a moment.
But when we began to talk about each couple having "homes" of our own, they could not understand it. "Our work takes us all around the country," explained Celis. "We cannot live in one place all the time." "We are together now," urged Alima, looking proudly at Terry's stalwart nearness. "It's not the same thing at all," he insisted. "A man wants a home of his own, with his wife and family in it."
To Celis they said nothing. She must not be in any way distressed, while the whole nation waited on her Great Work. Finally Jeff and I were called in. Somel and Zava were there, and Ellador, with many others that we knew. They had a great globe, quite fairly mapped out from the small section maps in that compendium of ours.
While Terry and Alima struck sparks and parted he always madly drawn to her and she to him she must have been, or she'd never have stood the way he behaved Ellador and I had already a deep, restful feeling, as if we'd always had one another. Jeff and Celis were happy; there was no question of that; but it didn't seem to me as if they had the good times we did.
There they were Celis, Alima, Ellador looking just as they had when we first saw them, standing a little way off from us, as interested, as mischievous as three schoolboys. "Hold on, Terry hold on!" I warned. "That's too easy. Look out for a trap." "Let us appeal to their kind hearts," Jeff urged. "I think they will help us. Perhaps they've got knives."
No sooner had this movement been effected than Captain Flores sent Don Eulogeo Celis to inquire "on what terms Captain Gillespie would surrender the city"; and that officer, after consulting with his subordinates, answered that if the enemy would consent that he should march out of the city with the honors of war, colors flying and drums beating; that he should take everything with him; that he should be furnished with means for transporting his baggage and provisions, at his own expense; and that the enemy should not come within a league of his party while on its line of march to San Pedro, he would accept those terms, and no others would be considered; and Captain Flores should be held responsible for any damage which might ensue, in case they were rejected.
"As to giving us things of course we can see that you'd like to, but we are glad you can't," Celis continued. "You see, we love you just for yourselves we wouldn't want you to to pay anything. Isn't it enough to know that you are loved personally and just as men?" Enough or not, that was the way we were married.
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