The father seemed struck dumb in sudden surprise!—at length, burst from his lips—“The page!”
Any of the old gossips of Spain will tell you the rest of the story—and what a joyous wedding there was—and how every one said there never was so well matched—so noble a pair, as Don Jose, Marquis of Talavera, and his gentle bride, Ysabel! They will tell you, too, that the honey-moon, instead of lasting but thirty-one days, did outlast thirty-one years!—and the love that was true to the sire could not but bless the son.
So endeth the story of “The Lady and the Page.”
FANCIES ABOUT A ROSEBUD,
PRESSED IN AN OLD COPY OF SPENSER.
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BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
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