"She must inspire him with valor and confidence.

Smile, then, gentlest and loveliest; we would have all smiles to-day." And she did smile, but it was a smile of tears, gleaming on her beautiful face as a sunny beam through a glistening spray.

One by one the cuirass and shoulder-pieces, the greaves and gauntlets, the gorget and brassards, the joints of which were so beautifully burnished that they shone as mirrors, and so flexible every limb had its free use, enveloped those manly forms.

Their swords once again girt to their sides, and once more keeling, the king descended from his throne, and alternately dubbed them knight in the name of God, St.Michael, and St.
George.
"Be faithful, brave, and hardy, youthful cavaliers," he said; "true to the country which claims ye, to the monarch ye have sworn to serve, to the knight from whose sword ye have received the honor ye have craved.
Remember, 'tis not the tournay nor the tilted field in which ye will gain renown.

For your country let your swords be drawn; against her foes reap laurels.