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But to the grief of both, they learned upon their arrival that the princess had just been betrothed to a wild Cornish hero, Haco, and the wedding feast was to be held that very day. Sigtryg at once sent a troop of forty Danes to King Alef demanding the fulfilment of the troth-plight between himself and his daughter, and threatening vengeance if it were broken.
"I think so," Patty smiled back, for she knew how matters stood with Phil, and she had faith in the true heart of the girl beside her. "Yes, then," she said, softly, looking at Philip, and that was their troth-plight. "Go on, dear," he said, briefly, and with a glad smile in his eyes. "There's little more to tell; I am Alice Adams, and my father was born in Boston " "Good gracious, Phil!"
Margaret Vernon had redeemed her troth-plight, given to Sir Thomas Stanley early in the summer, and in the former part of the day she had been joined in holy wedlock with her lover by Father Nicholas Bury, with more of the Roman Catholic ritual than Queen Elizabeth's ministers would have approved of had they known it. Never had Haddon been so full of visitors before. Never had it been so gay.
Inspired by the fortitude of this noble woman, Tone went forth on his perilous mission, and similarly the Young Ireland leaders, Mitchel and Smith O'Brien, were sustained by the courage of their nearest and dearest. "Eva," the poetess of the Nation, gave her troth-plight to one who had prison and exile to face ere he could claim her hand.
He yeasaid her, though with a heavy heart; and to the folk about that seemed meet and due, since those twain were deemed to be troth-plight, and they smiled kindly on them as they went out of the Hall together.
'And the King permits, added Elisabeth. The King growled out, 'It is your comedy, Madame; I meddle not. The Austrian priest had no common language with Berenger but Latin. He asked a few questions, and on hearing the answers, declared that the sacrament of marriage had been complete, but that as was often done in such cases he would once more hear the troth-plight of the young pair.
Indeed I would have hindered him, but that but that I know it is best for him. No! I can't tell you why, but I know it is; and even to the very last, when he helped me down the companion- ladder, I hoped he might be coming home first." "But you are troth-plight to him, and secretly?"
'And now I bid thee to kiss me even before all these that are looking on; for there is nought to belittle us therein, since we be troth-plight. And indeed those folk stood all round about them gazing on them, but a little aloof, that they might not hear their words if they were minded to talk privily.
Those who have ever had the experience of keeping their own counsel for a long term of years know that every year makes it harder to take others into confidence. A concealed troth-plight, marriage, widowhood to name the big concealments involving no disgrace gets less and less easy to publish as time slips by, even as the hinges rust of doors that no man opens.
We became engaged during his convalescence, simply, quietly, unostentatiously. In due time we made our troth-plight known to the household of Beauseincourt, all of whom, from its formal master to my best-beloved, brightest, and ever-tantalizing pupil, Bertie, accorded me their heart-felt congratulations.
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