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The desolate creature spilled herself loosely into a cane-bottom chair, and her sorrow broke "like a great dyke broken." The writer lifted her tenderly upon his knee and bit her softly on the neck. "Gloriana," said he, "have you chewed up all that toffy in two days?" A smothered sob was her frank confession.
And since thou reliest more on thy own precaution than upon my honour; be it unto thee, fair one, as thou apprehendest. And now, Jack, let me know, what thy opinion, and the opinions of thy brother varlets, are of my Gloriana. I have just now heard, that Hannah hopes to be soon well enough to attend her young lady, when in London. It seems the girl has had no physician.
"I'll have to do it for him," replied my brother. "Uncle Jake has not the gift of tongues." We accompanied Gloriana to San Lorenzo; as we feared to trust our friend for so we had come to regard her with the mule, a mischievous beast, spoiled by prosperity. Ajax drove a skittish pair of colts. Gloriana and I occupied the back seat of our big spring wagon.
Drake the 'Dragon' is the typical English hero; he is Galahad in the Court of the Lady Gloriana; he is one of the long series of noble knights and valiant soldiers, their lives enriched and aglow with splendid achievements, who illumine the page of English history, from King Alfred to Charles Gordon.
It was like strolling in some quaint, ill-trimmed, old garden, finding fresh flowers, fresh bits of lichened walls, fresh fragments of broken earthenware ornaments; or, rather, more like a morning in the Cathedral Library at Siena, the place where the gorgeous choir books are kept, itself illuminated like missal pages by Pinturicchio: amused, delighted, not moved nor fascinated; finding every moment something new, some charming piece of gilding, some sweet plumed head, some quaint little tree or town; making a journey of lazy discovery in a sort of world of Prince Charmings, the real realm of the "Färy Queen," quite different in enchantment from the country of Spenser's Gloriana, with its pale allegoric ladies and knights, half-human, half-metaphysical, and its make-believe allegorical ogres and giants.
"It's one word," hinted Cricket. "'How doth the little busy B Improve each shining hour," suggested Auntie Jean, instantly. "No, that's good, but it isn't right; it's what we are now." "B-calmed," said Archie. "And you're right. That B needed calming badly, you little Gloriana McQuirk."
If he had given this same order for the meeting at Burnsides to the two extras, at the same time, all would have been well, except that the extras would have been delayed some fifteen minutes, but this he was unable to do. Burnsides itself is only a day office, so he could not communicate with them there, and they had already passed Gloriana, the first night office south of Burnsides.
Only the most purblind could fail to observe, what only the most perverse could hesitate to admit, that there was at first sight an obvious connection between the poison-flower "purple from love's wound" squeezed by Oberon into the eyes of the sleeping Titania and the poison rubbed by Vindice upon the skull of the murdered Gloriana.
She was, she told her Prime Minister, at the end of an official letter, "yours aff'ly V. R. and I." In such a phrase the deep reality of her feeling is instantly manifest. The Faery's feet were on the solid earth; it was the ruse cynic who was in the air. He had taught her, however, a lesson, which she had learnt with alarming rapidity. A second Gloriana, did he call her?
Is she married or single? old or young? crazy or sane?" "Gloriana," I answered, "satisfies our appetites but not our curiosity." As time passed, her reticence upon all personal matters became exasperating. At the end of the first month she demanded and received her salary. Moreover, refusing our escort, she tramped three dusty miles to the village post-office, and returned penniless but jubilant.
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