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His loud, even breathing sounded distinctly through the crannies of the ill-fitting door. Surely it was overloud. She listened to it. She could hear nothing else. Was his breathing a pretence? She opened the door noiselessly, and went in, shading the light with her hand. She bent over the sleeping man. At the first glance her heart sank, for he had not taken off his boots.
And thereat the lady spake, saying: Knights, ye may deem our minstrels but few, but such is our mind that we love not our music overloud, and for the most part only three sing or play unto us at one time.
Ethne ever so slightly flinched, and he himself recognised that he had spoken in a voice overloud, so that it had something almost of brutality. "Do I hurt you?" he continued. "I am sorry. But let me speak the whole truth out, I cannot afford reticence, I want you to know the first and last of it. I say now that I love you. Yes, but I could have said it with equal truth five years ago.
And no less suddenly a man's head-of ferocious aspect and surrounded by a shock of gray hair like a lion's mane looked out of the window and shouted to him who had knocked, in a deep and somewhat overloud voice. "If my shutter had been your back, you impudent rascal, your stick would have hit the right thing.
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