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Updated: June 4, 2025
Here the King weeps he is supposed to be deeply touched by the Princess's account of the wrongs done to the beggar-maid and it is finally arranged between him and the Princess that they shall pretend to have come to some violent misunderstanding, and that, in their war of words, they shall insult each other's parents so grossly that all possibilities of a marriage will be for ever at an end.
Mitchy says 'No; I take my own line; I go in for a beggar-maid. And it's only because I'm a beggar-maid that he wants me." "But there are plenty of other beggar-maids," Mr. Longdon objected. "Oh I admit I'm the one he least dislikes.
Houghton, I loved Alice before she was your wife. I should have married her but for the beggar-maid." "You left her without telling her why." "I told her that things must end, and I went away." "Like a coward," rejoined Houghton. "You should have told her all." "What difference has it made?" asked Cayley gloomily. "My happiness and hers. If you had told her all, there had been an end of mystery.
Her one remaining winter school frock was torn past mending. "Oh, dear, what will mother say?" said Peggy. The skirt was almost torn from the waist, and Peggy felt like a beggar-maid as she crept home. "Only, everybody will know I am not a beggar-maid," thought Peggy. "They'll all say, 'What mischief has Peggy Owen been up to now?"
I always said that young man was 'un heros de romans! Ma foi! this is the prettiest little episode I ever heard of. Just King Cophetua and the beggar-maid only reversed. How do you feel, my Queen Cophetua?" "I do not quite understand you, Caroline." "Neither should I you, for the tale seems incredible. Only you gave me such an honest 'yes, and I know you never tell even white lies.
"I'm penniless now, Dick, a beggar, with nothing in the world but the clothes I wear." "Yes," I said, catching her hands in mine, "my beggar-maid; the loveliest, noblest, sweetest that ever stooped to bestow her love on man. "Dick, how glorious everything is this morning the earth, the sky, and the river!" "It is our wedding morning!" said I. "Our wedding day," she repeated in a whisper.
An uneducated country girl, for as such he regarded her, had cast from her, not without insult, his splendidly generous offer of himself! Poor king Cophetua did not, however, shed many tears for the loss of his recusant beggar-maid. By and by he forgot everything, found he had gone to sleep, and, endeavouring to weep again, did not succeed.
Three or four Bellegardes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, took wives out of the bourgoisie married lawyers' daughters." "A lawyer's daughter; that's very bad, is it?" asked Newman. "Horrible! one of us, in the middle ages, did better: he married a beggar-maid, like King Cophetua.
An heritage of Moordom is the Spanish love for the improvisation of well-turned couplets; in olden days a skilful verse might procure the poet a dress of cloth-of-gold, and it did on one occasion actually raise a beggar-maid to a royal throne: even now it has power to secure the lover his lady's most tender smiles, or at the worst a glass of Manzanilla.
KING. I promise. PRINCESS. You are loved by a maiden far more beautiful than I; she is dying of love for your sake! She has suffered much for her love; she is suffering still. KING. Who is this maiden? PRINCESS. Ah! She is but a beggar-maid; she lives on charity, the songs she sings, and the flowers she sells in the streets.
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