"Ha! Thou sawest? I came out here to avoid the gaping throng, who
don't know what a hunter can do. I have been in worse case in the
Tyrol. Snowdrifts are worse footing than stone vine leaves."
"Where abides your highness?" asked Wildschloss.
"I ride back again to the halting-place for the night, and meet my
father in time to do my part in the pageant. I was sick of the
addresses, and, moreover, the purse-proud Flemings have made such a
stiff little fop of my poor boy that I am ashamed to look at him, or
hear his French accent. So I rode off to get a view of this notable
Dom in peace, ere it be bedizened in holiday garb; and one can't stir
without all the Chapter waddling after one."
"Your highness has found means of distancing them."
"Why, truly, the Prior would scarce delight in the view from yonder
parapet," laughed his highness. "Ha! Adlerstein, where didst get
such a perfect pair of pages? I would I could match my hounds as
well."
"They are no pages of mine, so please you," said the knight; "rather
this is the head of my name.
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