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"What has become of the child, I wonder!" he mused; "Where has she gone, the 'Glory-of-the-Sea'! I would give all I have to look upon her beautiful face again; and Ronsard he, poor soul silent as a stone, weakening day after day in the grasp of relentless age, would die happy, if I would let him! But I do not intend to give him that satisfaction. He shall live!
You have a strong flavour of romance in your Teutonic composition, Von Glauben, and I can quite sympathise with your admiration for the 'Glory-of-the-Sea' as you call her. From a man's point of view, I admire her myself. But I know nothing of her moral or mental qualities; though from her flat refusal to give me her husband's name yesterday, I judge her as wilful, but most pretty women are that.
He fell in love at first sight with the beautiful girl your Majesty saw yesterday Gloria; 'Glory-of-the-Sea' as I sometimes call her, and they were married by the old parish priest in the little church among the rocks the very church where, as her adopted father, Ronsard, tells me, he heard the choristers singing a 'Gloria in Excelsis' on the day he found her cast up on the shore."
"You need not claim it!" she said, slowly; "It is yours always! I shall do whatever you tell me, even if you command me to die for your sake!" With a swift impulsive action, full of grace and spirit, he dropped on one knee and kissed her hand. "And so I pledge my faith to my Queen!" he said joyously. "Gloria! my 'Glory-of-the-Sea'! you will forgive me for having in this one thing misled you?
But he was acting a special part, and he determined to play it well and thoroughly. So he gave her no reply, but turned with a stiff air to Von Glauben. "Tell the girl to make her obeisance to the Queen!" he said. The Professor very reluctantly approached the 'Glory-of-the-Sea' with this suggestion, cautiously whispered. Gloria obeyed at once.
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