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"There you lack wisdom," said Merlin, "for the scabbard is worth ten of the sword. While you wear that scabbard you shall never lose blood, however sorely you be wounded, so take good heed to keep it always with you." So they rode unto Carlion, where Arthur's knights were glad enough to see him, for his absence had greatly troubled them.
"Truly," said Kai, "thou art ill-taught to remain a year mute at Arthur's Court, with choice of society; and now, before the face of Arthur and all his household, to call out, and declare such a man as this the chief of warriors, and the flower of knighthood." And he gave him such a box on the ear that he fell senseless to the ground.
He told her of what had been done at the works. Arthur's plan had succeeded. It might not be the last word, but at least it was on the road to the right end. The men had been brought into it and shared the management. And the disasters predicted had proved groundless. "You won't be able to indulge in all your mad schemes," he laughed, "but there'll be enough to help on a few.
"I don't know," answered Barbara; "but one thing I am sure of, that, if you did puzzle him, he would say he was puzzled, and must have time to think it over!" "That is to behave like a man! and after all, clergymen are men, and there must be good men among them! But do you think, miss, you could get Arthur's address from Alice? The office is not where it used to be." "I dare say I could."
A well, called King Arthur's Well, will be found within the lowest rampart by taking the path to the right of the entrance gate. Another well Queen Anne's is in the neighbourhood of the keeper's cottage. The country-side is rich in Arthurian traditions. King Arthur and his knights are said on moonlight nights to gallop round the fortifications on steeds shod with silver shoes.
You are as much a band of champions as were King Arthur's Knights; you have all the same enemy, have made the same vows, and for a year have been in fellowship, learning and practising the same lessons: can you help feeling that there is a responsibility laid on you, to see that the world shall be the better because of you?
'Do you believe it can be done? 'I don't understand what you want. 'I want you to bring her to me so that I may speak with her, so that I may find out the truth. 'Do you think I am God that I can raise men from the dead? Arthur's hands pressed him down in the chair from which he sought to rise. His fingers were clenched on the old man's shoulders so that he could hardly bear the pain.
Adam, uttering this alternative, stood like a terrible fate before Arthur, who had moved forward a step or two, and now stopped, faint, shaken, sick in mind and body. It seemed long to both of them that inward struggle of Arthur's before he said, feebly, "I promise; let me go."
So she gave way to them just as no doubt the women of former days saw nothing absurd in bottling them. Arthur's position among all these weeping figures was extremely awkward, all the more so that he carried his sword upright between his legs, not daring to disturb the lachrymose company enough to dispose of it in the sword case appropriated to weapons.
Arthur's hand was in mine; he stamped his feet firmly on the sand, as if to break the oppressive silence which no one seemed disposed to disturb. The same ceremonies were performed in starting us homeward, by the same person, who let go the reins, and lifted his hat as we passed, as the final token of attention and respect.
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