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Some hasty ejaculation sprang to his lips, but he checked it, and pacing once or twice up and down, suddenly wheeled round, and again confronted her. "If, as a king, I fall so far short of kingliness, and am nothing to you," he said deliberately; "Why did you shield me from the assassin's dagger a while ago? Why not have let me perish?"
Truly he had not the vast strength and stature of Norway's king, but Alfred's was the kingliness of wisdom and statecraft. Once I said to Odda: "Can your king fight?" "Ay, with head as well as with hand," he answered. "His skill in weapon play makes up for lack of weight and strength. He is maybe the best swordsman and spearman in England."
His Majesty received me informally at his palace in a small, stuffy room his office, no doubt and an untidy one it was too. He wore a loose blouse and very baggy trousers; a comfortable suit, certainly, but not at all conducing to an ideal kingliness of appearance.
Her daughters were more powerfully affected; for Isabel's intellect was not so blinded by her ambition but that the kingliness of Edward forced itself upon her with a might and solemn weight, which crushed, for the moment, her aspiring hopes. Was this the man unfit to reign? This the man voluntarily to resign a crown? This the man whom George of Clarence, without fratricide, could succeed?
His Majesty received me informally at his palace in a small, stuffy room his office, no doubt and an untidy one it was too. He wore a loose blouse and very baggy trousers; a comfortable suit, certainly, but not at all conducing to an ideal kingliness of appearance.
Heaven left you intact a kingliness of nature a loftiness of spirit, unabased by assaults levelled not against yourself, but your pride; your personal dignity, though singularly sensitive, though bitterly galled, stood proof.
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