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'And meanwhile, said Sir Mador, 'I do require that ye keep the queen in close ward and prison, lest any try a rescue, and thus defeat the justice that is my due. Though it went to the king's heart to have to order this, he gave the queen into the keeping of Sir Kay, who kept her in her chamber, guarded by three knights, to the great grief of her women and all the court.
I have changed my mind. Your offer whatever it may be is declined. "I also approve," Kay murmured, and in the swift glance she exchanged with Don Miguel he read something that caused his heart to beat happily. Mrs. Parker took the paper from her daughter's hand and read it also. "Very well, Ajax. I think, we all think a great deal more of you for defying the lightning," was her sole comment.
The path, become narrower, rougher and more winding, plunged sharply, steeply downwards, running perilously along the cliff's edge. Nan got on her bicycle. Barry called from the rear, "Nan! It can't be done! It's not rideable.... Don't be absurd." Nan, remarking casually "It'll be rideable if I ride it," began to do so. "Madwoman," Barry said, and Kay assured him, "Nan'll be all right.
And at these words Sir Kay was in no wise pleased, for he wist that Sir Percival would one day become a very strong and worthy knight.
"Oh-h, don't," she breathed.... "I don't know we may be very close to death.... I want to live. I'd like to. But I don't really mind death. ... But I can't bear to have things end for you just as you've begun to live again " Crash! Something was badly smashed on deck that time, for the brazen jar of falling wreckage seemed continuous. Through the metallic echo she heard her voice: "Kay!
Then were there more that durst be so hardy as to set their hands thereto, but all failed. "Now may ye go to your dinner," said Sir Kay unto King Arthur, "for a marvellous adventure have ye seen." So the King and all went in, and every knight knew his own place and set himself therein, and all sieges were filled save only the Siege Perilous.
In the case of Mrs. Phillips, who was banished to Ship Island for her ghastly levity over the dead body of the gallant and lamented young De Kay, the General ordered a release after three months of exile, because he learned that her health was suffering in consequence of separation from her friends; and I doubt very much if she would have remained in duress three weeks, if the Rebel newspapers had not taunted the General so much, and threatened an expedition against the island for the purpose of rescuing the fair prisoner.
Sir Kay for the pleasure of the knight suffered him for to do his will, and so stood aside. And then anon within six strokes Sir Launcelot had stricken them to the earth. And then they all three cried, Sir Knight, we yield us unto you as man of might matchless.
Ess Kay has something up her sleeve; that she won't write to me because she wants to show how hurt and scandalised she is by my ungracious conduct, but that she has some idea for getting even with me sooner or later. If she hadn't that to keep her up, Sally thinks she couldn't have resisted answering my letter with a tirade.
If my sense of humour hadn't been trampled upon by various emotions which were all jumping about at the same time, I should have had hard work not to laugh when Stan and Mrs. Ess Kay scrambled out from under the lumbering old hood, which was like a great coal scuttle turned over their heads.
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