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Sir, said Sir Tristram, for the good lordship ye showed me in Ireland, and for my lady your daughter's sake, La Beale Isoud, I will take the battle for you upon this condition that ye shall grant me two things: that one is that ye shall swear to me that ye are in the right, that ye were never consenting to the knight's death; Sir, then said Sir Tristram, when that I have done this battle, if God give me grace that I speed, that ye shall give me a reward, what thing reasonable that I will ask of you.
SO on a day La Beale Isoud said unto Sir Tristram: I marvel me much, said she, that ye remember not yourself, how ye be here in a strange country, and here be many perilous knights; and well ye wot that King Mark is full of treason; and that ye will ride thus to chase and to hunt unarmed ye might be destroyed. My fair lady and my love, I cry you mercy, I will no more do so.
The prospect of not showing to advantage, a distinction in which she held she had never failed, begot in Ida Farange an ill humour of which several persons felt the effect. She determined that Beale at any rate should feel it; she reflected afresh that in the study of how to be odious to him she must never give way.
After all, it was for the best van Heerden could almost see the hand of Providence in this deliverance of his enemy into his power. There must be a settlement with Beale, that play-acting drunkard, who had so deceived him at first. Dr. van Heerden could admire the ingenuity of his enemy and could kill him. He was a man whose mental poise permitted the paradox of detached attachments.
Beale passed on ahead. "Here's the door," he said. He tried it gingerly and it gave a little. "It's clogged, and you won't get it open," said Homo; "it's the wall or nothing." Beale looked up and down the road. There was nobody in sight and he made a leap, caught the top of the wall and drew himself up. Luckily the usual chevaux de frise was absent.
Upon his arrival the Algerine sailors were surprized, but not at all displeased; they even confessed to their ambassador the kind usage they had received; upon which Captain Beale had all he lost returned by agreement, together with thanks for his humanity.
Marriage is a difficult business to get out of once you are in it, especially in this country." Beale did not interrupt the older man. "Right, and now if you've finished I'll tell you my scheme," he said, "as I see it there's only a ghost of a chance of our saving this girl from marriage. I've done my best and we McNorton and I have taken all the facts before a judge this morning.
He spoke the last sentence in German and the man started and looked at him with mingled suspicion and uncertainty. "It is a matter of the greatest importance," he repeated, "it is of vital importance." He spoke in German. "About the Green Rust?" asked Beale, in the same language. "I do not know anything of the Green Rust," said the man hurriedly.
Beale's, found the key under the loose tile behind the water-butt, and got the book without adventure. He had promised not to touch anything else, so he could not make even the gentlest booby-trap as a little surprise for Mrs. Beale when she got back.
I likes a 'orse. Or a dawg," he added. "I ain't no good wiv me 'ands not at working, you know not to say working." Dickie suppressed a wild notion he had had of getting into that dream again, learning some useful trade there, waking up and teaching it to Mr. Beale. "Ain't there nothing else you'd like to do?" he asked. "I don't know as there is," said Mr. Beale drearily; "without it was pigeons."
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