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Updated: June 15, 2025
Immediately after this speech Ravonino led forward Rafaravavy, and Laihova advanced with Ra-Ruth, and these two couples were then and there united in matrimony. Radama the Second, and Prince Ramonja, who had been recalled and reinstated with the Secretary, and Soa, and other courtiers, graced the wedding with their presence.
"The difficulties in your way are greater than you suppose," said Soa. "The Queen's spies and soldiers are out all over the land. Even now, were it not that I am your friend and brother in Jesus, you would have been caught here as in a trap. Besides, there is the greater difficulty that Rafaravavy is filled with fidelity to her royal mistress, and pities her so much that she will not leave her.
"It is useless to go into the town," returned Laihova. "I am known now as one of those who aided Mamba to escape." "But I am not known at least not in my present guise," said Ravonino. "Have you seen Rafaravavy?" "No; I tell you we had not been long in the town when this mischance befell." "Did not Mamba tell you why he has undertaken so long a journey?"
"Certainly not," replied the Secretary, with a slight smile and a ceremonial bow. "Come, then, let us follow the track, we may yet meet her." So saying, Mark led the way along the path where Rafaravavy had vanished, not for the purpose of overtaking her, but in order to give his friend time and opportunity to get out of the thicket unperceived.
"Scarce can we find a place of rest, Save dens and caves, with hunger press'd; Yet Thy compassion is our bliss, Pilgrims amidst a wilderness." Poor Rafaravavy had full proof of the truth embodied in these lines, both as to the affliction and the bliss, before many days were over.
There have been many persecutions of the Christians since it began. Hundreds have been slain; thousands have been sold into slavery; many more have been banished to pestilential districts, where disease has laid them low. God grant that this mad fit may not be the forerunner of another burst of cruelty." "But do you really think," said Mark, "that Rafaravavy is in great danger?
It is probable that Ranavalona would have cared little as to what her favourite thought about Christianity if she had only kept quiet, but Rafaravavy was one of those earnest straightforward souls who are prone to act in accordance with their conscientious beliefs without regard to consequences.
After a time the Queen dismissed some of her attendants to ramble about the grounds, among them Rafaravavy, who sauntered down one of the side-walks by herself. She had not gone far when, on reaching a turn of the road where a small thicket of shrubs concealed her from the more public part of the garden, she heard her own name pronounced.
It occurred to him that Ravonino would inevitably venture to attend the garden parties in the hope of again meeting Rafaravavy, and now that the Secretary had avowed himself on the side of the Christians, he felt that through him he might influence her to agree to her lover's proposal. Then his plan to effect the rescue of Mamba was gradually matured.
"I shall have little influence now with my uncle," returned Soa, sadly, "for I am a Christian, and he will soon discover that. But I will help them if I can for your sake." "And Rafaravavy," said Ravonino, in a lower voice, "do you think she can be induced to fly? If she were brought to me here, I should have little difficulty in taking her to a place of safety."
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