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As a matter of fact, he witnessed the football match from the ordinary stands, surrounded by thousands of unsuspecting Britons, but carefully wedged in between two generals of his own army and flanked by a minister of police, a minister of the treasury and a minister of war, all of whom were excessively bored by the contest and more or less appalled by his unregal enthusiasm.
Bors came to attention. "Majesty," he said, not knowing whether he spoke in irony or bewilderment, "I take that as an order." The king did not answer. When the door on the other side of the room closed behind his unregal figure, Bors turned to Morgan. "I think I've been given authority," he said in a sort of baffled calm. "Suppose we go, Mr.
He will not enter, because he thinks it unregal, inhuman, mean, selfish to engross the luxury of the hovel's shelter, and the warmth of the 'precious' straw, while he knows that he has subjects still abroad with senses like his own, capable of the like misery, still exposed to its merciless cruelties.
In truth, my lord Duke's value to her Majesty was founded greatly upon that which had drawn his Grace of Marlborough to him. He wanted nothing; all the others had some desire to gain, secret or avowed. The woman who had so longed for unregal feminine intimacy and companionship that with her favoured attendant she had played a comedy of private life doffing her queenship and becoming simple "Mrs.
But the crowd cheered itself hoarse over this bright-faced youngster who rode by in a coach of gold and brandished a singularly unregal chapeau. His alert eyes were searching the crowd along the street, in the balconies and windows with an eager intensity.
She put her arms about his neck, and flinging her head back, gazed at him with a heavy eye. "O, wilt thou put me aside for Masanath? What is her little dark beauty compared to mine? How can she, who is not even a stately subject, be a stately queen? Wilt thou set the crown upon her unregal head, invest her with the royal robes, and yield thy homage to a scowl and a bitter word?
Sheriff, name the day the deed was done!" "At ten in the morning, or some minutes later, the first day of the New Year, most illustrious " "Let the prisoner go free it is the King's will!" Another blush followed this unregal outburst, and he covered his indecorum as well as he could by adding "It enrageth me that a man should be hanged upon such idle, hare-brained evidence!"
Many times during her eager conversation with Baldos she had almost betrayed the fact that she was not the princess. Some of her expressions were distinctly unregal and some of her slips were hopeless, as she viewed them in retrospect. "What am I? Only the humble goat-hunter, hunted to death and eager for a short respite. Do with me as you like, your highness.
Sheriff, name the day the deed was done!" "At ten in the morning, or some minutes later, the first day of the New Year, most illustrious " "Let the prisoner go free it is the King's will!" Another blush followed this unregal outburst, and he covered his indecorum as well as he could by adding "It enrageth me that a man should be hanged upon such idle, hare-brained evidence!"
But such a provoking looking type of beauty as hers did not long leave the men of the party cold to her charms; and soon Jimmy Danvers joined her and a Colonel Lowerby, commonly known as "the Crow," and she held a little court. But to relax and be genial and unregal was so difficult for her, with the whole contrary training of all her miserable life.
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