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Once loosed she never drew back Brother and sister they were to be

She ht hand; her

own cup-bearer should fill his wine-cup, her oer taste all his

reat cup filled ine;

it needed both her hands She held it up before she drank to hi, "Let there be love and amity between me and thee" The terms

of this aspiration astonished him; he accepted honours easily, for he

was used to observances at Starning; but to be thee'd and thou'd by

this lady! As he stood there laughing and blushing like a boy she made

him drink from the cup to the same wish and in the same terms When

once your frozen soul opens to the thaw all the sluices are away,

truly Prosper went to bed that night very well content with his

reception He saw his sche fast on such a sunny wall as

this His head was rather full, and ofhis prayers he did not remember Isoult at all

Yet hers had been sped out of Gracedieu Minster long before, and to

the saods Only she had had Saint Isidore in addition; and she had

had Prosper Hers probably went nearer the mark Until you have made a

beloved of your saint or a saint of your beloved--it et little comfort out of your prayers