So get thee gone to Kenilworth, and stray not from it on thy peril.

Take thy malaise with thee, and I shall laugh again.' Behold he goeth.

So that was the end of Obligato, and now cometh another tune." "She hath good cheer ?" asked Lempriere eagerly.

"I have never seen Delicio smile these seven years as she smiled to-day; and when she kissed Amicitia I sent for my confessor and made my will.

Delicio hath come to spring-time, and the voice of the turtle is in her ear." "Amicitia--and who is Amicitia ?" asked Lempriere, well flushed with wine.
"She who hath brought Obligato to the diminuendo and finale," answered the fool; "even she who hath befriended the Huguenottine of the black eyes." "Ah, she, the Duke's Daughter--v'la, that is a flower of a lady! Did she not say that my jerkin fitted neatly when I did act as butler to her adorable Majesty three months syne?
She hath no mate in the world save Mademoiselle Aubert, whom I brought hither to honour and to fame." "To honour and fame, was it--but by the hill of desperandum, Nuncio," said the fool, prodding him with his stick of bells.
"'Desperandum'! I know not Latin; it amazes me," said Lempriere, waving a lofty hand.
"She--the Huguenottine--was a-mazed also, and from the maze was played by Obligato." "How so! how so!" cried the Seigneur, catching at his meaning.