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Christina would fain have slipped out unperceived, but the king was already removing his cap from his fair curling locks, and bending his head as he said, "The Frau Freiherrinn von Adlerstein? Fair lady, I greet you well, and thank you in the Kaisar's name and mine for having bred up for us two true and loyal subjects." "May they so prove themselves, my liege!" said Christina, bending low.
This was not easy to answer, coming from a prince who had no small experience in premature bridals coming to nothing, and Christina felt that the matter was taken out of her hands, and that she had no more to do but to enjoy the warm-hearted Kaisar's praises of her son.
I am sure I would put neither king's nor kaisar's, nor ony earthly creature's, afore them." "How mean ye by that, ye auld fule woman? D'ye think that I order ony thing against conscience?"
Even then, when too late, came one of the Kaisar's kindest letters, recalling me, a letter whose every word I would have paid for with a drop of my own blood six weeks before! and which he had only failed to send because his head was running on the plan of that gorgeous tomb where he is not buried!
All in reason, quoth I, and more shame for us not to have been foremost in our Kaisar's own cause; but what said the rest of our misproud chivalry? They would never condescend to climb a wall on foot in company with lanzknechts!
Ebbo looked disconcerted, and gasped, as if this were over-quick work. "To-morrow!" he said. "Knows my mother?" "I go to speak with her at once. The Kaisar's consent I have, as he says, 'If we have one vassal who has common sense and honesty, let us make the most of him. Ah! my son, I shall return to see you his counsellor and friend."
I have the Court Secretary's answer this day about that command in the Kaisar's guards that my dear old master had promised to his godson." "Another put-off with Flemish courtesy, I see by thy face, Ebbo." "Not quite that, mother.
And hardly had we taken note of this when there came forth from the baldaquin a young lady and I looked, O Commander of the Faithful, upon a face and form more perfect than the moon when fullest, with a favour brighter than the dawn gleaming with saffron-hued light, even as the poet sang when he said Thou pacest the palace a marvel sight, * A bride for a Kisra's or Kaisar's night!
I am sure I would put neither king's nor kaisar's, nor ony earthly creature's, afore them." "How mean ye by that, ye auld fule woman? D'ye think that I order ony thing against conscience?"
Luther hath been setting forth in greater clearness and fulness what our blessed Friedel and I learnt at your knee, and my young ones have learnt from babyhood of the true Catholic doctrine. Yet I may not call my son's faith such as the Kaisar's Spanish conscience-keepers would have it, and so the boy must e'en tarry at home till there be work for his stout arm to do."
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