"That was the cup Adalgoth, still my cup-bearer, kept for me when we made our last stand upon Mount Vesuvius," he says. "Hilde thinks that you deserve to have it: - and rightly so!"
Liuta orders Hilde to help, and she skips off.
"Had I known you then, when I was alive," he says, low and with quiet earnestness, "in those three dire months of my reign: - I would indeed have asked you to be my queen, for my people could not have wished for a better one, in their darkest hour."
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"That was the cup Adalgoth, still my cup-bearer, kept for me when we made our last stand upon Mount Vesuvius," he says. "Hilde thinks that you deserve to have it: - and rightly so!"
Liuta orders Hilde to help, and she skips off.
"Had I known you then, when I was alive," he says, low and with quiet earnestness, "in those three dire months of my reign: - I would indeed have asked you to be my queen, for my people could not have wished for a better one, in their darkest hour."