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"I marvel that thou dost appeal to my compassion. Thou knowest my skill with the bow, and thou didst see the deer fall under my shaft; yet thou didst say with the boy that 'twas he who did the deed. Catiff! How dared he claim the stag? And 'twas a hart royal!" "Yet had he not done so thou wouldst have had to suffer fine and imprisonment. Dost know the law? It says "
"Porter Pinckard," Miss Breckenridge answered, indifferently, before entering into a confidential exchange of brevities with Miss Sartoris. "I'll call him out, and run him through the liver," said Peter Pomeroy, "the miserable catiff! I'll brook no rivals, Billy." Billy merely smiled lazily at this; her eyes were far more eloquent than her tongue, as she was well aware.
But Sir Ector was filled very full of shame, wherefore he cried out fiercely, "Rather would I lie within a prison all my life than serve so catiff a knight as thou, who darest to treat other knights as thou hast just now treated me." "Well," said the black knight very grimly, "thou shalt have thy choice."
The flunkey's red nose grew pale with astonishment and fear; yet he managed to stammer out "'Pon my life, sir really, sir Mr. Porkley, sir he's at home, certainly, sir in his library, sir writing his next Sunday's sermons, sir can't see any one, sir " "Catiff, conduct me to his presence!"
And indeed he is a very catiff knight, for, though he is strong and powerful, he doth not often attack other knights, but only ladies and demoiselles who come hither. For these he may take captive without danger to himself. For I believe that though he is so big of frame yet is he a coward in his heart."
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