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"That's the best part of the song," explained Lancelot; "a sort of undercurrent of emotion that brings out the full pathos of the words. He played another bar or two, singing the words softly. "Yes; but if you think you'll get young ladies to play that, you've got a good deal to learn," said the publisher gruffly. Lancelot looked dismayed.
She leapt up incontinent and came to the orchard there where Lancelot was sleeping, then sate her down beside him and began to look at him, sighing the while, and draweth as near him as she may.
"With this good fellow here," said the duenna, "who has particularly requested me to go and put an ass of his that is at the castle gate into the stable, holding it up to me as an example that they did the same I don't know where that some ladies waited on one Lancelot, and duennas on his hack; and what is more, to wind up with, he called me old."
I suppose she sometimes gets a bit queer in her head," said Lancelot, conceiving he was somehow safe-guarding Mary Ann's honour by the explanation. "I don't think that," answered Peter. "She did seem dull and stupid when I was here last. But I had a good stare at her just now, and she seems rather bright. Why, her accent is quite refined she must have picked it up from you."
You're my man, if you please, sir, and the little wiry lump of courage and conceit, rascality and good humour, flew at Lancelot, who was twice his size, 'with a heroism worthy of a better cause, as respectable papers, when they are not too frightened, say of the French. 'Do you want any more? asked Lancelot. 'Quite a pleasure, sir, to meet a scientific gen'lman.
But in this while had Sir Gawain ridden so far that he had learned the truth how that Sir Lancelot had found the beast, and at this time he had followed upon his tracks and came unto the lair even as the traitor had wounded Sir Lancelot, and cut off the foot, and was mounted upon Sir Lancelot's steed, which that good knight, Sir Gawain, knew right well.
It was, however, quite natural that her guests two of them excepted should be amused when they observed her surprise. Could anything be funnier, one of these guests asked another in a whisper, than Mrs. Linton's chagrin on finding that her own particular Sir Lancelot had discovered an Elaine for himself?
You fight as they say that knight does whom I hate most in all this world. If you are not that knight, I give you my friendship, and shall free all my prisoners for your sake." "That is well said," replied Sir Lancelot. "Tell me who this knight is whom you hate so much." "He is Sir Lancelot of the Lake. "Then let us begin to fight again," said Sir Lancelot, "for I am Sir Lancelot of the Lake."
On the morrow, Sir Lancelot rose early, and took Sir Key's shield and armour and set forth. When Sir Key arose, he found Sir Lancelot's armour by his bedside, and his own arms gone.
But 'all things do end, and so did this; and the silence of the hounds also; and a faint but knowing whimper drove St. Francis out of all heads, and Lancelot began to stalk slowly with a dozen horsemen up the wood-ride, to a fitful accompaniment of wandering hound-music, where the choristers were as invisible as nightingales among the thick cover.
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