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"The ring! the ring!" exclaimed the dwarf impatiently; "false and slothful knight, return the ring, which thou art unworthy to touch or to look upon." "A moment, a moment, good Nectabanus," said Sir Kenneth; "disturb not my thoughts. What if the Saracens were just now to attack our lines?
I tell thee I will take the blame on myself with King Richard in behalf of thy fair Northern friend thine acquaintance, I would say, since thou own'st him not as a friend. Nay, look not so reproachfully. We will send Nectabanus to dismiss this Knight of the Standard to his post; and we ourselves will grace him on some future day, to make amends for his wild-goose chase.
She denied, indeed, with many a pretty form of negation, that she had directed Nectabanus absolutely to entice the knight farther than the brink of the Mount on which he kept watch and, indeed, this was so far true, that she had not designed Sir Kenneth to be introduced into her tent and then, eloquent in urging her own defence, the Queen was far more so in pressing upon Richard the charge of unkindness, in refusing her so poor a boon as the life of an unfortunate knight, who, by her thoughtless prank, had been brought within the danger of martial law.
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