master’s hands his wages, the hoarded savings of many years, and begged that he might follow him into any exile.
Orlando resolved instantly to seek the forest of Arden, where he had heard that the Duke still kept some kind of state, and to join the band of exiles. So he departed, with the faithful Adam, on the journey.
When Celia and Rosalind met Duke Frederick after the wrestling-match, they found him in evil humor. He had been reminded of his baseness by the name of Sir Rowland de Bois, and the sight of Rosalind always kept in mind his banished brother. Besides, he noted how her superior beauty won all eyes, while his daughter and heiress moved with her like a humble satellite. At this moment his anger broke out. Accusing Rosalind, with brutal rage, of treasonable intents, he ordered her to depart from the court, bade her be forever exiled, like her father, and forbade Celia longer to harbor her. Then he swept away in a terrible fury, without glancing back at the half-frightened, half-stupefied maidens.
But when Rosalind declared that she would seek out her father’s dwelling-place, Celia instantly protested she would not let her go alone, but would go with her to the world’s end. And when Rosalind had faintly combated with this
