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The Prince rocked with laughter, and her ladyship enjoyed it quite as fully. "It's the smartest hit I've heard since I left Paris," said the Prince. "Sir," said I, "be good enough to explain. Who is Davie?" "Her ladyship's husband," he replied. "Damme!" I ejaculated. "I thought he was only an ordinary Scotchman." Whereat everybody laughed.
Every small attempt at witticism, every poor joke he could invent, adapt or repeat, was laughed at approvingly in a chorus of admiration by smirking human creatures, male and female, who bowed and bobbed up and down before the lad like strange dolphins disporting themselves on dry land. Whereat he grew to despise the dolphins, and no wonder.
Howso grim and deadly the queen's anger was, none had told Etzel how it stood, else he had hindered what afterward befell. They scorned, through pride, to tell their wrong. The queen advanced with a great crowd of folk, but the twain moved not two hands' breadth, whereat the Huns were wroth, for they had to press past the heroes.
They have trouble themselves, then they come to this rock and, boom! make trouble for their friends." "Boom!" echoed his son, who had apparently caught the drift of the old man's speech. Whereat the two Greek genii in the stern laughed immoderately; knowing, as they did, that the boy had not the slightest idea of what his father was talking about. "Boom!" they repeated, in derisive chorus.
"Alas!" said the stranger, "I have no purse nor no money either, saving only the half of a sixpence, the other half of which mine own dear love doth carry in her bosom, hung about her neck by a strand of silken thread." At this speech a great shout of laughter went up from those around, whereat the poor boy looked as he would die of shame; but Robin Hood turned sharply to Will Stutely.
"He was too po'ly but thar's more Hawns and Honeycutts in town than you kin shake a stick at, an' they're walkin' round hyeh jes like brothers. Hello, hyeh's one now!" Jason turned to see big Babe Honeycutt, who, seeing him, paled a little, smiled sheepishly, and, without speaking, moved uneasily away. Whereat Steve laughed.
"You will not need that," she said. "I thought that I should not need it in yonder inn, but I did," he answered. Whereat she laughed, then turned, put her hand upon his shoulder and spoke to him earnestly. "See, friend," she whispered, "you want to walk in the fresh air do you not? and to learn certain things and I wish to tell you them.
Then he retraced his labyrinthian steps in a corresponding swath. "I gied him hell," referring doubtless to the vanquished candidate. Whereat I took him to task right sternly, giving him sharply to understand that such language was an insult to his minister and friend. In reply, he fell upon me, literally and figuratively, with tones of reproachful tenderness.
And the wind of the evening descending cool from the snowfields of some mountainous abode of distant gods came suddenly, like glad tidings to an anxious city, into the wing-like sails. And so we came into the central stream, whereat the sailors lowered the greater sails.
At this spectacle he marvelled and going close up to the bed, which was curtained by a hanging of silk, embroidered with a net-work of jewels, drew back the curtain from before the Princess and saw her sleeping with her arms about the neck of a young man handsomer than herself; whereat he magnified Allah Almighty, who had created such a youth of vile water, and said, "How goodly be this fashion for one who hateth men!
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