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She seemed to consider, fixing her eyes on his; but he turned his aside. "Could you not make me understand?" she asked. "Your lover, when he comes, will do that, madam," said he, and still he kept his eyes averted. And Osra wondered why he kept his eyes turned away; yet presently a faint smile curved her lips, and she said: "It may be you might feel it, if you were not a churchman. But I do not.
He is to be your husband, not mine. Therefore, take him, if you will." When Osra heard this, which indeed for joy and wonder she could hardly believe, she dropped her knife, and, running forward, fell on her knees before her brother, and, catching his hand, she covered it with kisses, and her tears mingled with her kisses.
King Rudolf, being in the worst of humors, had declared in the presence of all the court that women were born to plague men and for no other purpose whatsoever under heaven. Hearing this discourteous speech, the Princess Osra rose, and said that, for her part, she would go walking alone by the river outside the city gates, where she would at least be assailed by no more reproaches.
Ah, madam, I know you, and I see now your beauty. Have you known love?" "No," said Osra; and she moved her hand near to the lady's hand. "And when he found me here he prayed me again to do what he asked, and I was half killed in denying it. But I prevailed, and we were even then parting when you came. Why, why did I come?" And for a moment her voice died away in a low, soft moan.
"The countess, sire," discreetly interrupted Count Sergius of Antheim. "Why, yes, the countess," said the king; and, with a laugh, they turned bank to their wine. But the two on the terrace also talked. "I do not yet understand it," said Princess Osra. "For on the first day I loved you, and on the second I loved you, and on the third, and the fourth, and every day I loved you.
Here Christian waited for them with the horses, and they came presently, the bishop wearing a great slouched hat, and swaggering like a roystering trooper, while Osra was closely veiled.
"Since a cottage was not too small, a palace will not be too large," said he, catching her in his arms. Thus the heart of Princess Osra found its haven and its rest; for a month later she was married to the Grand Duke of Mittenheim in the cathedral of Strelsau, having utterly refused to take any other place for her wedding.
They had many adventures during these walks, some of them very exciting ones. Once, as they were striding across the plain, they saw a stranger approaching, and although Osra was somewhat suspicious, he yet had sufficient curiosity to let him come quite close, and even among them.
But she spoke once, asking in a harsh voice: "Is there no physician in the house or near?" "None, madam," said the prince. The bishop began the office, and Osra stood, dimly hearing the words of comfort, peace, and hope; dimly seeing the smile on the lady's face, for gradually her eyes clouded with tears.
Osra waited no longer; with a peculiar sort of guttural chuckle he stretched out his long legs, and with tremendous strides which covered from twenty to twenty-two feet at a time flew like the wind, followed by his remaining wives and little ones.
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