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The king's voice was growing flat with consternation. The situation was unprecedented. Sir Pelleas said he had an ingrowing toe-nail. The king's eye rolled in anguish around the table. Suddenly it stopped. It brightened. His look of dismay changed to one of relief. A knight had risen to his feet. It was Agravaine. 'Ah! said the king, drawing a deep breath. Sir Agravaine gulped.
Any one of those mammoth low-brows at the door could eat him, armour and all. He resumed his meal, uneasy but resigned. Dinner at Earl Dorm's was no lunch-counter scuffle. It started early and finished late. It was not till an advanced hour that Agravaine was conducted to his room. The room which had been allotted to him was high up in the eastern tower.
And all the people wondered at his prowess; for on the first day he put to the worse Sir Gawain, Sir Gaheris, Sir Agravaine, Sir Key, and many more from far and near. And on the morrow he was conqueror again, and overthrew the king with a hundred knights and the King of Scotland.
He might have a heart of gold beneath the outward aspect of a confidence-trick expert whose hobby was dog-stealing, but there was no doubt that his exterior did not inspire a genial glow of confidence. 'Very good of you to come, said the earl. 'It's a pleasure, said Agravaine. 'I have been hearing all about the dragon. 'A great scourge, agreed his host.
Now Sir Gawain and Sir Gareth, Mordred's brothers, refused to give ear to these slanders, holding that Sir Launcelot, in his knightly service of the Queen, did honour to King Arthur also; but by ill-fortune another brother, Sir Agravaine, had ill-will to the Queen, and professed to believe Mordred's evil tales. So the two went to King Arthur with their ill stories.
At heart he ached for romance; but romance passed him by. The choice always fell on Lancelot or some other popular favourite. The tournament was followed by a feast. In those brave days almost everything was followed by a feast. The scene was gay and animated. Fair ladies, brave knights, churls, varlets, squires, scurvy knaves, men-at-arms, malapert rogues all were merry. All save Agravaine.
And here other weddings took place, for King Arthur devised that Gaheris should wed the damsel Linet, and that Agravaine should wed Dame Laurel, a fair lady, niece to the Lady Lioness.
Mordred and Agravaine propose to call the guileless Arthur's attention to Guenever and Sir Launcelot. Sir Gawaine, Sir Gareth, and Sir Gaheris will have nothing to do with it. A dispute ensues, with loud talk; in the midst of it enter the king. Mordred and Agravaine spring their devastating tale upon him. A trap is laid for Launcelot, by the king's command, and Sir Launcelot walks into it.
And as they sat at the table, there came in the Queen of Orkney, with ladies and knights a great number. And her sons, Sir Gawaine, Sir Agravaine, and Gaheris arose and went to her, and saluted her upon their knees and asked her blessing, for in fifteen years they had not seen her. Then she spake on high to her brother, King Arthur, "Where have ye done my young son, Sir Gareth?
And as the French book saith, he did that twelvemonth more than forty battles. And because I have lost the very matter of Le Chevaier du Chariot, I depart from the tale of Sir Launcelot, and here I go unto the morte of King Arthur; and that caused Sir Agravaine. Explicit liber xix. And hereafter followeth the most piteous history of the morte of King Arthur, the which is the twentieth book.
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