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All the long dormant sentiment of the multitude was roused to a fever- heat by the story of Prince Humphry's marriage, and he too, next to his father, became a veritable hero of romance in the eyes of the people, for whom Love, and all pertaining to love-matters form the most interesting part of life.
"Sunset already!" said Von Glauben, walking to the window and throwing back the heavy curtain which partially shaded it, "And yonder is Prince Humphry's yacht on its homeward way." De Launay came and stood beside him, looking out.
He delivered a very admirable series of lectures, and it was without doubt most agreeable to the country-gentlemen to find the great waste from their fermenting manures made clear by Sir Humphry's retorts; but Davy was too profound and too honest a man to lay down for farmers any chemical high-road to success.
The storm outside was growing louder and even louder, and his thoughts, despite himself, turned to the ocean- wildernesses over which Prince Humphry's home-returning vessel must be now on its way while that other solitary barque, unhelmed and unmanned, whose sail bore the name of 'Lotys' was also voyaging, but in a darker direction, down to death and oblivion, carrying with it, as he feared, all the love and heart of a King!
"Good!" said the King gently; "Then you must help me to console her in Humphry's absence!" Professor Von Glauben's eyes opened widely, with a vague look of alarm. "In his absence, Sir?" "Yes! I am sending him abroad. He is quite willing to go, he tells me. His departure will make all things perfectly easy for us.
I saw the little maiden and the pages in attendance. I saw Humphry, proud husband and father, beside them. All this I saw, which I had come to see. But the face of Humphry's Countess was not thy face! In that moment I knew that, for seven long years, I had been fooled! "I started on a frenzied quest after the truth, and news of thee. "Thy sister Eleanor had died the year before.
Had they kept to the open ground, from whence the wide expanse of the sea could be viewed from end to end, their discussions might perhaps have been interrupted, and themselves somewhat startled, for they would have seen Prince Humphry's yacht, with every inch of canvas stretched to the utmost, flying rapidly before the wind like a wild white bird, winging its swift, straight way to the west where the sun shot down Apollo-like shafts of gold on the gleaming purple coast-line of The Islands.
The hard weather is gone for the present, so that London will be pleasanter than it has been, for the Jockeys and Macaronis. Garrick criticised your picture of mine, which he saw at Humphry's; he has that and Sir Charles's; it is like, but not so good and spirited a likeness as Reynolds's certainly. But I am much obliged to you for it.
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