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"Let no one say, that there is need / Of time for love to grow; / Oh! no; the love, which kills indeed. / Dispatches at a blow. / "Love all at once should from the earth / Start up full-grown and tall; / If not an Adam at his birth. / He is no love at all." / --Lord Holland from Lope de Vega.
While these transactions were passing at Orrenberg, Osbright was anxiously employed in finding means to remove all existing prejudices, and establish a close and lasting amity between the rival kinsmen. He found Sir Lennard of Kleeborn willing to assist his design, and scrupled not to lay before him the dearest secret of his bosom.