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She gave a derisive laugh, and defiantly resumed her packing. "What! you're rebellious, are you?" quoth he. "But you'll not get away from me so easy, my lady. Not with those clothes, at least; for yourself, it doesn't much matter. I'll just put those things back into the press, and after this I'll carry the key. But your rings and necklace I'll take charge of them first."
So they were marched to the room where the Sheriff sat at meat, and stood trembling before him as he scowled sternly upon them. "So," quoth he, in a great, loud, angry voice, "ye have been poaching upon the King's deer, have you? Now I will make short work of you this day, for I will hang up all three of you as a farmer would hang up three crows to scare others of the kind from the field.
"Walking on his feet," replied the Amir; "and he had compassed, in the space of a single day and night, ten days' journey for a diligent horseman." "Verily, he is a friend of God," said Sherkan; "but where is he now?" Quoth Terkash, "We left him with our troops, the people of Faith, encouraging them to do battle with the infidels and rebels."
"Mercy on us, sisters! what is the young man talking about?" exclaimed Scarecrow, Nightmare and Shakejoint, one to another, with great appearance of astonishment. "A pair of flying slippers, quoth he! His heels would quickly fly higher than his head if he was silly enough to put them on. And a helmet of invisibility!
So forth I come; and I must be at my post again by morn, said the General." "It is now nine o'clock, and she will be in the convent," said the woman tentatively. "Aho!" he answered, "and none can enter there but Governor, if holy Mother say no. So now goes Master Devil there? 'Gabord, quoth he, 'you shall come with me to the convent at ten o'clock, bringing three stout soldiers of the garrison.
He poured the wine into the green and gold and twisted bauble and set it before me, then filled a silver goblet for himself. "Drink, gentlemen," he said. "Faith, I have drunken already," quoth the Secretary, and proceeded to fill for himself a second time. "Here's to you, gentlemen!" and he emptied half the measure. "Captain Percy does not drink," remarked my lord.
The girl reined in beside him, and her hand went out to his, and he found himself gazing deep into her eyes. "For what you have done, Brian," she said simply, "thanks. Now let us ride back, for I think there is work before us, and we shall see the Dark Master soon enough." "I am not minded to wait his coming," quoth Yellow Brian darkly, and they returned.
'When they are present, we will give judgment. So she caused bring the two kinds of fruits before him, and he ate of both. Quoth she, 'What is the difference between them? And he answered, 'As often as I think to praise one kind, the other puts in its claim. The Khalif laughed at his answer and made him a present. Zubeideh also gave him what she had promised him, and he went away, rejoicing.
"Then must Obligato go, for he hath such credentials," said the fool, blowing thistle-down in the air. "Yesterday was no Palm Sunday to Leicester. Delicio's head was high. 'Imperial Majesty, quoth Obligato, his knees upon the rushes, 'take my life but send me not forth into darkness where I shall see my Queen no more.
Corbie is in a fix," quoth Yaspard to himself, as he watched the swift, graceful evolutions of the shooies as they darted through the air buffeting and tormenting the unfortunate raven, whose harsh, fierce croak and futile efforts to escape were quite pitiful though amusing.
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