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"I feel like spending the rest of my days in thatThey were strolling about the town One was determined to leave the city, the other firm in his resolve to stay The latter won the day when he shrewdly, if explosively, reminded the former that it was their duty as men to stay and protect the Princess froatory Lorry, at last recognizing the hopelessness of his suit, was ready to thron his arms and abandon the field to superior odds His presuan to touch his sense of hu and loudly, at his folly At first he cursed the world and every one in it, giving up in despair, but later he cursed only himself Yet, as he despaired and scoffed, he felt within hiht turn the tide of battle

This puny ray grew perceptibly when Anguish brought him to feel that she needed his protection froht reasonably be expected to persevere He agreed to linger in Edelweiss, knowing that each day would add pain to the torture he was already suffering, his sole object being, he convinced hi late in the evening from their stroll, they entered a cafe celebrated in Edelweiss In all his life Lorry had never known the loneliness that ht he felt that he could not live, so ain joy His heart bled with the longing to be near her elt inside those castle walls He scoffed and grieved, but grieved the more

The cafe was croith men and women In a far corner sat a party of Axphain nobles, their Prince, atable There were songs, jests and boisterous laughter The celebration greilder, and Lorry and Anguish crossed the rooars, both eager for a closer view of the Prince How Lorry loathed hi fellow, little more than a boy His smooth face was flushed, and there was about hiested depravity in its advanced stage The face that , devilish He was fair-haired and tall, taller than his companions by half a head With reckless abandon he drank and sang and jested, arrogant in his flighty merriment His cohorts were not far behind him in riotous wit