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Updated: July 3, 2025
'And though you are the first of knights, exclaimed the fourth, 'you shall win fame for your courtesy and gentlehood, no less than for your valour.
I often wish there were any one point in which a woman could show her genuine ladyhood as a man displays his gentlehood by the management of his hat, raising it entirely from the head on meeting a woman, lifting it when the lady with whom he is walking bows to an acquaintance, or when his man-companion meets a friend, baring his head on meeting, parting from, or kissing mother, sister or wife.
A Saracen compared to such was a courteous knight.. .. He thought of Kublai, the greater Khakan. Perhaps in his court might dwell gentlehood and reason. But here was but a wolf pack in the faraway guise of man. They gave the strangers food and drink halfcooked fish and a porridge of rye and sour spiced milk, and left them to sleep until sundown. Then the palace guards led them to the presence.
And right now, speaking of armour-plate lining, I could drink the both of you down when you were at your prime. Like you two, my beginnings were far distant and different. That I am marked with the hall-mark of gentlehood there is no discussion . . . unless either of you care to discuss the matter now . . . " His one hand slipped into his pocket and clutched the quoit.
And he would have taught that son, had already begun to teach him when the great blow came, that all this was to be given to him, not that he might put it into his own belly, or wear it on his own back, or even spend it as he might list himself, but that he might so live as to do his part in maintaining that order of gentlehood in England, by which England had become so thought Sir Harry the proudest and the greatest and the justest of nations.
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