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Yet if such were the law Duke Deodonato sighed, and he glanced at the damsel: and it chanced that the damsel glanced at Duke Deodonato, and, seeing that he was a proper man and comely, and that his eye spoke his admiration of her, she blushed; and her cheek that had gone white when those of the Judges who favored the learned Doctor were speaking, went red as a rose again, and she strove to order her hair and to conceal the rent that was in her robe.
"And have not yet learnt silence?" asked Deodonato severely. "Damsel, proceed!" "Caught me by my gown as I ran and " "I proposed marriage to her," said Fusbius. "Nay, if you proposed marriage, she shall marry you," said Deodonato. "By the crown of my fathers, she shall marry you. But what said he, damsel?"
Thus speaking, the Duke took a large sheet of foolscap paper, and wrote rapidly for a moment or two. "There," he said, pushing the paper over to the President, "is the decree." "The decree, sir?" "I think three weeks afford ample space," said Duke Deodonato. "Three weeks, sir?" "For every man over twenty-one years of age in this Duchy to find himself a wife." "Your Highness," observed Dr.
And doubtless it would have had an effect as altogether satisfactory, excellent, beneficial, salutary, and universal as the wisdom of Duke Deodonato had anticipated from it, had it not fallen out that, on the promulgation of the decree, all the aforesaid ladies of the Duchy, of whatsoever station, calling, age, appearance, wit, or character, straightway, and so swiftly that no man had time wherein to pay his court to them, fled to and shut and bottled and barricaded themselves in houses, castles, cupboards, cellars, stables, lofts, churches, chapels, chests, and every other kind of receptacle whatsoever, and there remained beyond reach of any man, be he whom he would, lest haply one, coming, should ask their hand in marriage, and thus they should lose all prospect of wedding the Duke.
"I would venture," said the President, "to remind your Highness that you are yourself a bachelor." "Laws," said Duke Deodonato, "do not bind the Crown unless the Crown is expressly mentioned." "True, sir; but I humbly conceive that it would be pessimi exempli " "You are right; I will marry myself," said Duke Deodonato. "But, sir, three weeks!
"Is it true, damsel?" asked Duke Deodonato. "Hear me, your Highness!" answered she "I left my dwelling but an instant, for we were in sore straits for " "Bread?" asked Deodonato, a touch of sympathy in his voice. "May it please your Highness, no pins wherewith to fasten our hair. And, as I ran to the merchant's, this aged man " "I am but turned of fifty," interrupted Fusbius.
That was an interesting case of hers. But I gave the right answer; the girl ought to marry A." And so the girl did. "It is a most anxious thing to be an absolute ruler," said Duke Deodonato, "but I have made up my mind. "Your Highness will remember " began the President of the Council. "My lord, I have made up my mind," said Duke Deodonato.
"My Cousins, Gentlemen, and my faithful Guard," said Deodonato, "Time, which is Heaven's mighty Instrument, brings counsel. Say! what the Duke has done, shall any man undo?" Then cried they all, save one, "No man!" And the President said, "Saving the Duke." "The decrees which I made," said Deodonato, "I unmake.
Her robe was disheveled and rent, her golden hair hung loose on her shoulders, and her eyes were full of tears. "At whose suit is she arrested?" asked Deodonato. "At the suit of the most learned Dr. Fusbius, may it please your Highness." "Sir," said Dr. Fusbius, "it is true. This lady, grossly contemning your Highness' decree, has refused my hand in marriage."
"This day in your Duchy women are slaves, and men their masters by your will," said she. "It is the order of nature," said Deodonato. "It is not my pleasure," said the damsel. Then Deodonato laid his hand on his silver bell, for he was very angry. "Fusbius waits without," said he. "I will wed him and kill him," cried Dulcissima. Deodonato gazed on her.
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