16 ROMEO AND JULIET.

 

Presently amid the dancers he saw a lady so beautiful and so
lovable, that from that moment he never again gave one thought to
that Rosaline whom he had thought he loved. And he looked at this
other fair lady, as she moved in the dance in her white satin and pearls,
and all the world seemed vain and worthless to him compared with her.
And he was saying this— or something like it—to his friend, when
Tybalt, Lady Capulet’s nephew, hearing his voice, knew him to be
Romeo. Tybalt, being very angry, went at once to his uncle, and told
him how a Montagu had come uninvited to the feast; but old Capulet
was too fine a gentleman to be discourteous to any man under his own
roof, and he bade Tybalt be quiet. But this young man only waited
for a chance to quarrel with Romeo.

In the meantime Romeo made his way to the fam lady, and told
her in sweet words that he loved her, and kissed her. Just then her
mother sent for her, and then Romeo found out that the lady on whom
he had set his heart’s hopes was Juhet, the daughter of Lord Capulet, his
sworn foe. So he went away, sorrowing indeed, but loving her none
the less.

Then Juliet said to her nurse :

“Who is that gentleman that would not dance?”