gassion

Updated: September 8, 2025

So sound, indeed, was the prince's sleep that Gassion had to shake him almost roughly to rouse him. As soon, however, as his eyes opened he leapt to his feet. "I have had a wonderful night," he laughed; "never have I slept more soundly on a down bed than on this hard ground, which, however, as I find, makes my bones ache wonderfully. Well, it is a fine day for a battle.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War