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Updated: May 12, 2025
In this mood, Maximilian felt disposed to be rid to the very utmost of poor Sir Kasimir's unlucky attachment to a wedded lady; and receiving letters suggestive of the Eastern mission, instantly decided that it would only be doing as he would be done by instantly to order the disappointed suitor off to the utmost parts of the earth, where he would much have liked to go himself, save for the unlucky clog of all the realm of Germany.
"No, no, Junkern, I shall owe you no thanks for bringing all the street on me! that's enough. Reserve the rest for Kaisar Fritz." Then, familiarly taking Sir Kasimir's arm, he walked on, saying, "I remember now. Thou wentest after an inheritance from the old Mouser of the Debateable Ford, and wert ousted by a couple of lusty boys sprung of a peasant wedlock."
Natural grace, quickness of ear and eye, and a skilful partner, rendered Friedel's so fair a performance that he ventured on sending his brother to attend the councilloress with wine and comfits; while he in his own person performed another dance with the city dame next in pretension, and their mother was amused by Sir Kasimir's remark, that her second son danced better than the elder, but both must learn.
But when Sir Kasimir's visit was imminent, and Christina had refused to make the change in her dress by which a young widow was considered to lay herself open to another courtship, Master Gottfried called the twins apart. "My young lords," he said, "I fear me ye are vexing your gentle mother by needless strife at what must take place."
"Pardon me, good uncle," said Ebbo, "I utterly decline the honour of Sir Kasimir's suit to my mother." Master Gottfried smiled. "Sons are not wont to be the judges in such cases, Sir Eberhard." "Perhaps not," he answered; "but my mother's will is to the nayward, nor shall she be coerced." "It is merely because of you and your pride," said Master Gottfried.
On one side, in black and gold, with the jewel of the Golden Fleece on his breast, rode Maximilian, responding gracefully to the salutations of the people, but his keen gray eye roving in search of the object of Sir Kasimir's salute, and lighting on Christina with such a rapid, amused glance of discovery that, in her confusion, she missed what excited Dame Johanna's rapturous admiration the handsome boy on the Emperor's other side, a fair, plump lad, the young sovereign of the Low Countries, beautiful in feature and complexion, but lacking the fire and the loftiness that characterized his father's countenance.
"Get thee gone, boy, I would not quarrel with you; and it may be, as Friedel says, that we are best out of one another's way. You are used to lord it, and I can scarce make excuses for you." "Then," said Ebbo, scarce appeased, "I take home my mother, and you, sir, cease to favour Kasimir's suit." "No, Sir Baron. I cease not to think that nothing would be so much for your good.
The crossbow was the only weapon with which they excelled; and, as shooting was a favourite exercise of the burghers, their proficiency was not as exclusive as had seemed to Ebbo a baronial privilege. Harquebuses were novelties to them, and they despised them as burgher weapons, in spite of Sir Kasimir's assurance that firearms were a great subject of study and interest to the King of the Romans.
And spake she not of Sir Kasimir's offers? Interest with the Romish king? Yea, and a grant of nobility and arms to this house, so as to fill the blank in your scutcheon?" "My father never asked if she were noble," said Ebbo. "Nor will I barter her for a cantle of a shield." "There spake a manly spirit," said his uncle, delighted. "Her worth hath taught thee how little to prize these gewgaws!
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