80 AS YOU LIKE IT.

Aliena was so charmed with his manly way of confessing his faults, that
she fell in love with him at once. But when Ganymede heard of the
danger Orlando had been in, she fainted; and when she came to herself,
said truly enough, “I should have been a woman by right.” Oliver went
back to his brother and told him all this, saying, “I love Aliena so well,
that I will give up my estates to you and marry her, and live here as a
shepherd.”

“Let your wedding be to-morrow,” said Orlando, “and I will ask
the Duke and his friends. Go to the shepherdess—she is alone, for here
comes her brother.”

And sure enough Ganymede was coming through the wood towards
them. When Orlando told Ganymede how his brother was to be married
on the morrow, he added: “Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into
happiness through another man’s eyes.”

Then answered Rosalind, still in Ganymede’s dress and speaking
with his voice—‘“‘ If you do love Rosalind so near the heart, then when
your brother marries Aliena, shall you marry her. I will set her before
your eyes, human as she is, and without any danger.”

‘Do you mean it?” cried Orlando.

“ By my life I do,” answered Rosalind. “Therefore, put on your
best array and bid your friends to come, for if you will be married to-
morrow, you shall,—and to Rosalind, if you will.”

Now the next day the Duke and his followers, and Orlando, and
Oliver, and Aliena, were all gathered together for the wedding.

“Do you believe, Orlando,” said the Duke, “that the boy can do all
that he has promised ?”

““T sometimes do believe and sometimes do not,” said Orlando.

Then Ganymede came in and said to the Duke, “If I bring in
your daughter Rosalind, will you give her to Orlando here ?”

“That I would,” said the Duke, “if I had all kingdoms to give
with her.”

“And you say you-will have her when I bring her?” she said to
Orlando.

“That would I,” he answered, “were I king of all kingdoms.”

- Then Rosalind and Celia went out, and Rosalind put on her pretty
women’s clothes again, and after a while came back.