17/23 When is the wedding ?" "After the vintage, Highness." Her highness then spoke to the bridegroom-elect. "You will be good to her ?" "Who could help it, your Highness ?" The pronoun struck her oddly, for peasants as a usual thing never used it in addressing the nobility. Come, Hoffman; my horse will be restive and my men impatient." She passed down the aisle, and the head vintner followed, wagging his head. He was not at all satisfied with that tableau. |