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"Thou mayst yet discover that I am a shoemaker," returned Lorenzo. "Also, if there were no carpenters in the world we should all be houseless. A carpenter may, indeed, be of more use than a princeling." Tristan looked at Elene to see how she bore the shock of hearing such people mentioned as carpenters and shoemakers; but she was smiling as if Lorenzo's words pleased her.
"It's really beautiful! Can I get it? I'd like to know that melody." "I make for you a piano score. It's the music they played the night that she, that she " his breath came quickly. "Lieber Gott! Elene; so like Elene, so like!" he said, as he gazed at her. Miss Stanton took off her gloves and began to play.
King Theophile's cheeks grew pale, for he thought of the long-ago wars and men asleep in crimson meadows that had once been green. "Prince Martin is a gallant lad." "He would rather contend with others than with himself," said the Princess. "As for Prince Lorenzo, he dreams too much." "Dreamers oft know more than those who are awake," replied Elene.
Then the golden boats drove home across the rocking billows, and one day the Queen Elene, as she was now titled, lifted her eyes and beheld the gaunt castle of King Theophile cutting the sky. A mist seemed to hang all its turrets with fog and vapor. Elene remembered the shining happy little castle of her vanished kingdom, and her heart was bitter with tears, but she could not shed them.
Prince Martin ended his tale with real sadness, for he saw that the Princess Elene was unmoved by his narrative, and with drooping head he returned to his seat. Then rose Prince Lorenzo and bowed low before the Princess. "Even to win you," he said, "I would not have you shed tears, for you have been made to shed too many in your short life."
He appears, at any rate, to have been an educated man, and I think no one can read his poetry without feeling that he was a man of deep and fervent piety. There are four poems signed by Cynewulf, and these are named "Christ," "Juliana," "The Fates of the Apostles," and "Elene." Certain "Riddles" have also been attributed to him.
This one idea grew and grew until it became an obsession. He could no longer bear the sound of music; so it was no sacrifice to him to give up his profession. He hated the very streets he walked in, for had Elene not walked in them? He must find her; he must find his child. He could hear the little girl calling for him, he kept telling himself.
"I am through; thoroughly and completely through," and he broke the conductor's wand in pieces and threw them into the fire. "That finishes me!" he said. "I am snapped; broken in little bits. I did not ask to live, but now, now, I ask to die! To die, that is all I ask, to die." He took out the little miniature of his wife and looked at it long and tenderly. "Elene, Elene! My wife, where are you?
But even a wrong will finds its way, and little Elene grew up wondering why people were so unkind to her; and why there was so much sadness in the world, for when all else failed the minstrels could make her weep by singing of "old, unhappy far-off things, and battles long-ago."
Von Barwig had heard the name many times, but at that moment he did not recognise it, although it was the name of the greatest heiress in New York. His ear caught the word "Hélène" and he could only repeat it over and over again. "Elene, Elene!" "Hélène," corrected Miss Stanton. "Ah, in my language it is Elene; yes, Elene!" Then a great hope took possession of him.
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