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Updated: June 13, 2025
Dynasties fall, thrones totter to the ground, crowns tumble to dust on kingly heads; but love rules and lives on, immortal, triumphant, unconquerable. Jessica had never heard of Romeo and Juliet, of Faust and Marguerite, or King Cophetua and the beggar maid.
"So you have come to see me? Here are the remains of my poor dear," she added with a little laugh, presenting the gentleman. "Do you think he is worth all the trouble I took to get him?" "Ha! much pleased! Devilish proper girl!" said the man with a stupid blush, justifying the stolidity of his good looks. "But where is your preux chevalier, Captain Cophetua?
Boncassen would be the next President? And was not the President of the United States as good as the Queen of England? Lord Silverbridge, when he left Mr. Boncassen, wandered about the park by himself. King Cophetua married the beggar's daughter. He was sure of that. King Cophetua probably had not a father; and the beggar, probably, was not high-minded.
Is not King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid an adjudged case in point? 'Professional! professional! another forfeit, exclaimed the tumultuary nobility.
King Cophetua, being a king, could afford to love the beggar maid, and a very old song sings of a "lady who loved a swine," but the names of the poor young men who have loved above their fortune and station are innumerable as the swallows in spring. John saw that Mrs. Goddard was much richer than he had ever been, and without the smallest second thought was pleased.
It postponed the wedding: it stirred me to a very crescendo of patronage, for with the removal of the bread-winner the only flaw in my Cophetua pose had vanished: and it gave Audrey a great deal more scope than she had hitherto been granted for the exercise of free will in the choice of a husband.
"I should like to keep it," she admitted frankly, "because, you see, I've never had a ring like this." It was the Cophetua and Beggar Maid motif but it left him cold. "Hilda," he said, "I saw you that night trying on my wife's jewels. That was my reason." She was plainly disconcerted. "But that was child's play. I had never had anything it was like a child dressing up."
It would be King Cophetua and the beggar-maid reversed. Clerks at one hundred and fifty dollars a month were not supposed to aspire to only daughters of bonanza kings in the circle from which Faraday had come. So he visited the Ryans, assuring himself that he was a friend of the family, who would dance at Miss Genevieve's wedding with the lightest of hearts.
But it was a mercy that Jill had Derek. . . . Jill was thinking of Derek, too. Panic had fled, and a curious exhilaration had seized upon her. If Derek wanted her now, it would be because his love was the strongest thing in the world. She would come to him like the beggar-maid to Cophetua. Uncle Chris broke the silence with a cough. At the sound of it, Jill smiled again.
Is not King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid, an adjudged case in point?" "Professional! professional! another forfeit," exclaimed the tumultuary nobility.
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