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7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | This was, indeed, a bad failure, for this animal would now be dubbed a martyr, and would take his place among the saints of the Roman calendar. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Thus made he his moan, this poor Sir La Cote Male Taile, and sorrowed passing sore. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | And so my heart bled for him, and I was moved to comfort and stay him. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Wherefore I said: "Forbear to grieve, fair knight, for this is not a defeat. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | We have brains, you and I; and for such as have brains there are no defeats, but only victories. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Observe how we will turn this seeming disaster into an advertisement; an advertisement for our soap; and the biggest one, to draw, that was ever thought of; an advertisement that will transform that Mount Washington defeat into a Matterhorn victory. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | We will put on your bulletin-board, '_Patronized by the elect_.' |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | How does that strike you?" |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | "Verily, it is wonderly bethought!" |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | "Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad, it's a corker." |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | So the poor colporteur's griefs vanished away. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | He was a brave fellow, and had done mighty feats of arms in his time. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | His chief celebrity rested upon the events of an excursion like this one of mine, which he had once made with a damsel named Maledisant, who was as handy with her tongue as was Sandy, though in a different way, for her tongue churned forth only railings and insult, whereas Sandy's music was of a kindlier sort. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I knew his story well, and so I knew how to interpret the compassion that was in his face when he bade me farewell. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | He supposed I was having a bitter hard time of it. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Sandy |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | and I discussed his story, as we rode along, and she said that La Cote's bad luck had begun with the very beginning of that trip; for the king's fool had overthrown him on the first day, and in such cases it was customary for the girl to desert to the conqueror, but Maledisant didn't do it; and also persisted afterward in sticking to him, after all his defeats. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | But, said I, suppose the victor should decline to accept his spoil? |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She said that that wouldn't answer--he must. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | He couldn't decline; it wouldn't be regular. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I made a note of that. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | If Sandy's music got to be too burdensome, some time, I would let a knight defeat me, on the chance that she would desert to him. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | In due time we were challenged by the warders, from the castle walls, and after a parley admitted. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I have nothing pleasant to tell about that visit. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | But it was not a disappointment, for I knew Mrs. le Fay by reputation, and was not expecting anything pleasant. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She was held in awe by the whole realm, for she had made everybody believe she was a great sorceress. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | All her ways were wicked, all her instincts devilish. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She was loaded to the eyelids with cold malice. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | All her history was black with crime; and among her crimes murder was common. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I was most curious to see her; as curious as I could have been to see Satan. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | To my surprise she was beautiful; black thoughts had failed to make her expression repulsive, age had failed to wrinkle her satin skin or mar its bloomy freshness. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She could have passed for old Uriens' granddaughter, she could have been mistaken for sister to her own son. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | As soon as we were fairly within the castle gates we were ordered into her presence. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | King Uriens was there, a kind-faced old man with a subdued look; and also the son, Sir Uwaine le Blanchemains, in whom I was, of course, interested on account of the tradition that he had once done battle with thirty knights, and also on account of his trip with Sir Gawaine and Sir Marhaus, which Sandy had been aging me with. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | But Morgan was the main attraction, the conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, that was plain. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She caused us to be seated, and then she began, with all manner of pretty graces and graciousnesses, to ask me questions. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Dear me, it was like a bird or a flute, or something, talking. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I felt persuaded that this woman must have been misrepresented, lied about. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She trilled along, and trilled along, and presently a handsome young page, clothed like the rainbow, and as easy and undulatory of movement as a wave, came with something on a golden salver, and, kneeling to present it to her, overdid his graces and lost his balance, and so fell lightly against her knee. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She slipped a dirk into him in as matter-of-course a way as another person would have harpooned a rat! Poor child! |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | he slumped to the floor, twisted his silken limbs in one great straining contortion of pain, and was dead. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Out of the old king was wrung an involuntary "O-h!" of compassion. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | The look he got, made him cut it suddenly short and not put any more hyphens in it. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Sir Uwaine, at a sign from his mother, went to the anteroom and called some servants, and meanwhile madame went rippling sweetly along with her talk. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I saw that she was a good housekeeper, for while she talked she kept a corner of her eye on the servants to see that they made no balks in handling the body and getting it out; when they came with fresh clean towels, she sent back for the other kind; and when they had finished wiping the floor and were going, she indicated a crimson fleck the size of a tear which their duller eyes had overlooked. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | It was plain to me that La Cote Male Taile had failed to see the mistress of the house. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Often, how louder and clearer than any tongue, does dumb circumstantial evidence speak. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Morgan le Fay rippled along as musically as ever. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Marvelous woman. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | And what a glance she had: when it fell in reproof upon those servants, they shrunk and quailed as timid people do when the lightning flashes out of a cloud. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I could have got the habit myself. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | It was the same with that poor old Brer Uriens; he was always on the ragged edge of apprehension; she could not even turn toward him but he winced. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | In the midst of the talk I let drop a complimentary word about King Arthur, forgetting for the moment how this woman hated her brother. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | That one little compliment was enough. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She clouded up like storm; she called for her guards, and said: "Hale me these varlets to the dungeons." |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | That struck cold on my ears, for her dungeons had a reputation. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Nothing occurred to me to say--or do. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | But not so with Sandy. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | As the guard laid a hand upon me, she piped up with the tranquilest confidence, and said: "God's wounds, dost thou covet destruction, thou maniac? |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | It is The Boss!" |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | Now what a happy idea that was!--and so simple; yet it would never have occurred to me. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I was born modest; not all over, but in spots; and this was one of the spots. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | The effect upon madame was electrical. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | It cleared her countenance and brought back her smiles and all her persuasive graces and blandishments; but nevertheless she was not able to entirely cover up with them the fact that she was in a ghastly fright. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | She said: "La, but do list to thine handmaid! |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | as if one gifted with powers like to mine might say the thing which I have said unto one who has vanquished Merlin, and not be jesting. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | By mine enchantments I foresaw your coming, and by them I knew you when you entered here. |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | I did but play this little jest with hope to surprise you into some display of your art, as not doubting you would blast the guards with occult fires, consuming them to ashes on the spot, a marvel much beyond mine own ability, yet one which I have long been childishly curious to see." |
7,244 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3. | The guards were less curious, and got out as soon as they got permission. |