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Updated: May 14, 2025
'Of course we will, said the Amal; 'anything to pass the time. 'But let it be about snow, said Agilmund. 'Not about Alruna-wives? 'About them, too, said Goderic; 'my mother was one, so I must needs stand up for them. 'She was, boy. Do you be her son. Now hear, Wolves of the Goths!
Off, sirrah! and thank the lady that you have escaped with a whole skin. And the Amal caught the bridle of Pelagia's mule, and pushed forward, leaving the old man gazing sadly after them.
The Amal swore an oath at him which made the cloister ring again, and with a quiet shove of his heavy hand, sent him staggering half across the court: but Wulf interposed. 'The boy is mine, prince. He is no drunkard, and I will not let him become one. Would to heaven, added he, under his breath, 'that I could say the same to some others. Send us out our supper here, when you are done.
Is there anything in which my office here enables me I will not say to reward, for that would be a term beneath your dignity as free barbarians but to gratify you? 'Give us three days' pillage of the quarter! shouted some one. 'Ah, true valour is apt to underrate obstacles; you forget your small numbers. 'I say, quoth the Amal 'I say, take care, Prefect.
He never was drunk in his life, I'll warrant, poor fellow, and it's high time for him to begin. And the Amal laid a good-natured bear's paw on Philammon's shoulder, who hung back in perplexity, and cast a piteous look towards Wulf. Wulf answered it by a shake of the head which gave Philammon courage to stammer out a courteous refusal.
'Not you, surely, said Pelagia. 'Oh, you wonderful creature! what things you have done and suffered! 'Well, said the Amal, with a look of stolid self-satisfaction, 'I suppose I have seen a good deal in my time, eh?
Zeno proclaimed the One-eyed an enemy to the Empire; and ended by reinstating him in his old honours, and taking them from the Amal. He had broken with the Romans at last. The Roman was astride of him, and of all Teutons, like Sindbad's old man of the sea. The only question, as with Sindbad, was whether he should get drunk, and give them a chance of throwing the perfidious tyrant.
Mounting a wild horse at the tent-door, the beast reared before he could get his seat; afraid of pulling it over by the curb, he let it go. A lance, in Gothic fashion, was hanging at the tent-door, and the horse plunged the One-eyed against it. The point went deep into his side, and the old fighting man was at rest for ever. And then came a strange peripeteia for the Amal.
They both sent ambassadors to Zeno; the Amal complaining of treachery; the One-eyed demanding indemnity for all his losses. The Emperor was furious. He tried to buy off the Amal by marrying him to a princess of the blood royal, and making him a Caesar. Dietrich would not consent; he felt that it was a snare.
'Rather too cool; eh, Pelagia? said the Amal, laughing. 'Ay, went on the old man, bitterly enough, 'such were your mothers; and such were your sisters; and such your wives must be, if you intend to last much longer on the face of the earth women who care for something better than good eating, strong drinking, and soft lying.
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