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Updated: June 18, 2025
Her own fortune was made, she believed, in serving her. Both the magister and her brother had sworn it, and, living in an age of marvels dragons, portents from the heavens, and the romances of knight errantry she was ready to believe it.
Sword wearing and using have passed away, but still you see the buttons. "As to taking off your hat to no man: it depends entirely on what you mean by it; and, being a social custom, you must accept its social meaning. "In the days of knight errantry, every one meeting a stranger had to suppose him an enemy; ten to one he was.
One of the travelers mistook Don Quixote for the innkeeper, and was immediately reprimanded for this. The offended knight then began to talk about knight errantry and its revival in the world, until finally the men tired of his discourse. Again they knocked at the gate, this time with such force and fury that the innkeeper woke up and came out and admitted them in a hurry.
'I have heard of these Errantry books, he said. 'In my day there were none such, and now I have no letters. 'How, then, do you pass the long days of peace, Katharine asked, 'if you neither drink nor dice? He answered: 'In telling of old tales and teaching their paces to the King's horses. He drew himself up a little.
Lord Evroc was a valiant and a mighty warrior, ever battling against the hated pagans, when their bands of blue-eyed fierce fighters landed on his coasts. And when peace was on the land, he went about on errantry, jousting in tournaments and fighting champions. His six elder sons did likewise, and all were famed for their knightly prowess. But the mother sat at home, sad of mood.
From those early impressions, the grand enterprise of the great fur companies, and the hazardous errantry of their associates in the wild parts of our vast continent, have always been themes of charmed interest to me; and I have felt anxious to get at the details of their adventurous expeditions among the savage tribes that peopled the depths of the wilderness.
Every warrior has his nephew, who is selected as his page; he performs the duty of a squire, in ancient knight errantry, takes charge of his horse, arms, and accoutrements; and he remains in this office until he is old enough to gain his own spurs. Hawking is also a favourite amusement, and the chiefs ride out with the falcon, or small eagle, on their wrist or shoulder.
The train that had just roared away into the dusk had not brought him from the region of skyscrapers and derby hats for deeds of knight errantry up state. Anyhow, the girl's tears were none of his business. A railway station was a natural place for grief a field of many partings, upon whose floor fell often in torrents the tears of those left behind.
They, who were aware of his peculiar weakness, returned thanks in their most gracious manner; and when they were alone with the Judge they hastened to explain the knight's mental state. The Judge was much amused by the accounts of his adventures and his attempts to revive knight errantry in Spain. There was only one unhappy being in the inn that night: that was Sancho Panza.
Didst thou ever tell the girl, Melchior, of our mad excursion into the forests of the Apennines, in search of a Spanish lady that had fallen into the hands of banditti; and how we passed weeks on a foolish enterprise of errantry, that had become useless, by the timely application of a few sequins on the part of the husband, even before we started on the chivalrous, not to say silly excursion?"
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