He told her when he left her, that he had a perilous adventure before him, and that when it was achieved, she would either see him return to claim her, or hear that he had died with honour.

The younger brother's grief arose from the fact, that, if they were both slain, his old father, the king, would be childless.

His love for his father was so exceeding, that to one unable to sympathise with it, it would have appeared extravagant.
Both loved him equally at heart; but the love of the younger had been more developed, because his thoughts and anxieties had not been otherwise occupied.

When at home, he had been his constant companion; and, of late, had ministered to the infirmities of his growing age.

The youth was never weary of listening to the tales of his sire's youthful adventures; and had not yet in the smallest degree lost the conviction, that his father was the greatest man in the world.