CHARLEMAGNE'S DAUGHTER AND HER LOVER.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1587, 29 April 1887, Page 3

CHARLEMAGNE'S DAUGHTER AND HER LOVER.

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witness the followiug incident. Erginardus. Secretary of State to Charlemagne, dared to fall in love with his Royal master's daughter, and was well received, for she loved him in return. The presumption of the subject in aspiring so high induced the lovers to keep their mutual attachment a secret. One unlucky night, however, he stayed late, and bdow having fallen on the ground, the difficulty was how to make his retreat without his for tsteps being traced to her appartm»nt, by which her character would sufF.r. But love, mighty love, never deficient in inventing stratagems, induced the It >yal maid to a strange act for her lover's sake. She took the gentleman on her shoulders, and carried him all the length of the court to bis own chamber, he never setting foot on the t-11-tale ground, that so the next day no nn pension might be seen of bis footing. It so chanced that the wary father, Charlemage, was late inhisstuly that night,,and hearing a noise—or, perhaps, suspecting the risitn of his daughter's lover—he opened the winJowanddijcoven-d this unusual prank, atwhich hew isindoubt whether to laugh or be aogry. The next day, in full Court, the King, in presence of his daughter and asked " What punishment that person deserved who cade use of a king's daughter ss a male, and that, too, in the rigour of a winter season, and at night ? " The courtiers, of course, all cried out, " Death !" but while the confused lovers expected the worst, Charlemagne joined their hands, and bade them still love one another.