Cuando se conoció el resultado del pleito (y el rumor voló mucho más rápido que el telégrafo que lo ha suplantado), todo el pueblo se llenó de regocijo.
[Horses were put into carriages for the sole purpose of being taken out. Empty barouches and landaus were trundled up and down the High Street incessantly. Addresses were read from the Bull. Replies were made from the Stag. The town was illuminated. Gold caskets were securely sealed in glass cases. Coins were well and truly laid under stone. Hospitals were founded. Rat and Sparrow clubs were inaugurated. Turkish women by the dozen were burnt in effigy in the marketplace, together with scores of peasant boys with the label “I am a base Pretender,” lolling from their mouths. The Queen’s cream-coloured ponies were soon seen trotting up the avenue with a command to Orlando to dine and sleep at the Castle, that very same night. Her table as on a previous occasion, was snowed under with invitations from the Countess of R. , Lady Q. , Lady Palmerston, the Marchioness of P. , Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, and others, beseeching the pleasure of her company, reminding her of ancient alliances between their family and her own, etc. ]—todo lo cual se encuentra debidamente encerrado entre corchetes, tal como se ve arriba, por la sencilla razón de que era un paréntesis sin la menor importancia en la vida de Orlando. Lo pasó por alto para continuar con el texto. Pues cuando las hogueras ardían en la plaza del mercado, ella se encontraba a solas en los sombríos bosques con Shelmerdine. El tiempo era tan apacible que los árboles extendían sus ramas inmóviles sobre ellos, y si una hoja caía, caía manchada de rojo y oro, con tanta lentitud que se la podía contemplar durante media hora aleteando y descendiendo hasta posarse por fin en el pie de Orlando.