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"Sure, that's jist like yersilf, Miss Mattie!" exclaimed Rosa, with a faint, merry little laugh. "An' quare enough, I knew a lady once't of the very name, in the ould country. Miss Gloriana O'Dowd she was; an' the beauty o' County Kerry. My Lady Kinawley, she came to be. 'Deed, but I'd like to do it, for the ould times, an' for you thinkin' of it! I'll ask Peter, anyhow!"
"You're are losing flesh, Gloriana," said I, noting her sunken cheeks and glittering eyes. "In a good cause," she replied fervently. "Anyways, ther ain't a happier woman than me in the state of Californy! Well, I'm most thro' with my sewing, an' I'd like ter show ye both what I've done, but " "We've have been waiting for this, Gloriana," said Ajax, tartly.
His refusal to entertain the affection of Cloe drives her to a state of distraction, in which the nymphs of the woods take pity on her and bring her to Claudia to be cured. Gloriana in the meantime returns the affections of Lysander, but the meeting of the lovers is interrupted by the jealous Francisco and a gang who wound Lysander and carry off Gloriana.
She returned the following evening with a larger parcel than the first. "I've bought a bonnet," she confessed shyly, "an' trimmins." We prevailed upon her to show us these purchases: white satin ribbon, jet, and a feather that might have graced the hat of the Master of Ravenswood. The "locating" of this splendid plume was no easy task. "Maxims," sighed Gloriana, "is mostly rubbish.
"He's as close as a clam the old sinner. So we can congratulate you, Gloriana?" "Ye kin indeed." We shook hands, and she led the way to her own room. There, spread upon her bed, lay some dainty garments, exquisitely fashioned, a regular trousseau! Even to our inexperienced eyes the beauty of the workmanship was amazing. "A woman," she murmured, "likes ter look at sech things.
An' I do think these air good enough." "Good enough!" we repeated. "They're fit for a queen." "An' a queen is goin' ter wear 'em," said Gloriana proudly "a queen o' beauty." We stared blankly at each other. Had Cupid robbed his victim of her wits? "They air fer Miss Miriam Standish, who was queen o' beauty at the San Lorenzy carnival. Miss Standish is the granddaughter of Doctor Standish.
And Doris, with her head on a strong man's shoulder, and a rough coat scrubbing her cheek, suddenly bethought her of the line "Journeys end in lovers' meeting " and was smitten with a secret wonder as to how much of her impulse to come north had been due to an altruistic concern for the Dunstable affairs, and how much to a firm determination to recapture Arthur from his Gloriana.
Thus Gloriana, the Queen of Faery, stands not only for Glory but for Elizabeth, to whom the poem was dedicated. Prince Arthur is Leicester, as well as Magnificence. Duessa is Falsehood, but also Mary Queen of Scots. Grantorto is Philip II. of Spain. Sir Artegal is Justice, but likewise he is Arthur Grey de Wilton.
She is Cynthia, she is Thetis, great queen of shepherds and of the sea; she is Spenser's Gloriana, and even Shakspere, the most impersonal of poets, paid tribute to her in Henry VIII., and, in a more delicate and indirect way, in the little allegory introduced into Midsummer Night's Dream. an allusion to Leicester's unsuccessful suit for Elizabeth's hand.
I allowed her to work for the child, but the clothes she has been sending I have given to others. Already, despite my efforts, she suspects that there is some unhappy mystery about her birth." Ajax met me on the threshold of our cheerless hotel parlour, and listened confounded to my story. As we sat smoking and talking the bell-boy ushered in Gloriana.
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