“Ah, I see; because he must!”
“Even as the river floweth onwards to the sea, I’ll follow Adina.”
“Ah, ah, ah!”
And with this general winding up of her interviews with the luckless youth, she ran in, and clapped to the little door.
CHAPTER II.
One hour later and everybody in the market place was opening his or her eyes, as widely open he or she could. For with a great blowing of trumpets, and other unusual sounds, came such a visitor!
In a carriage, too—not an ordinary carriage, but a gilt carriage. Not a mean covered-in carriage, like a van, but a fine open carriage, with such a gentleman sitting within it. One had to look twice before he could comprehend him—he was so grand. His waistcoat was a fair field, and his forehead a great plain. But as for his legs, to what shall they be compared? The legs of Jupiter himself, or perhaps Hercules! Yet he had a benignant face, this new comer, and he seemed to know he should be welcome.
Who was he—a lord, a prince?
And who was his trumpeter behind, blowing a triumphal march?