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Again her cheek went red, and again pale, and she said, "I wed no man on compulsion." "Madam, I am Your Sovereign," said Duke Deodonato; and his eyes were on the damsel. "If you were an Archangel !" cried the damsel. "Our House is not wont to be scorned of ladies," said Deodonato. "Am I crooked, or baseborn, or a fool?"
"I apprehend that it will remedy the mischief," said Duke Deodonato, not ill-pleased.
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.
"Yet," remarked the President, "inspired by a natural, if ill-disciplined, admiration for his Highness's person." "The decree is now a fortnight old," observed Duke Deodonato. "Leave me, I will consider further of this matter." "Bring hither that damsel," said Deodonato. Presently the damsel, still held by the soldiers, entered the room.
"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!
Deodonato turned to the window, and for a space he looked out; and the damsel smoothed her hair and drew her robe, where it was whole, across the rent; and she looked on Deodonato as he stood, and her bosom rose and fell. And she prayed a prayer that no man heard, or, if he heard, might be so base as to tell.
Fusbius smiled in triumph, while the maiden grew pale again. "And," pursued the President, "it binds, controls, and rules every man, woman, and child in these Your Highness's dominions, and hath the force of law over all." "So be it," said Deodonato again. "Saving," added the President, "Your Highness only." There was a movement among the company.
And Duke Deodonato sighed again. "My Lord," he said to the President, "we have heard these wise and erudite men; and, forasmuch as the matter is difficult, they are divided among themselves, and the staff whereon we leant is broken. Speak, therefore, your mind." Then the President of the Council looked earnestly at Duke Deodonato, but the Duke veiled his face with his hand.
"May it please your Highness, he said that I had the prettiest face in all the Duchy, and that he would have no wife but me; and thereupon he kissed me; and I would have none of him, and I struck him and escaped." "Send for the Judges," said Duke Deodonato. "And meanwhile keep this damsel and let no man propose marriage to her until Our pleasure be known."
"This is very perplexing," said Duke Deodonato, and he knit his brows; for as he gazed upon the beauty of the damsel, it seemed to him a thing unnatural, undesirable, unpalatable, unpleasant, and unendurable, that she should wed Dr. Fusbius.
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