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Updated: June 4, 2025
But although he stretched to his utmost, and his hind legs went out behind him in the struggle, he could not get near her. The mahout was getting troubled, for Rataplan's ankles were now in such a state as to make him almost valueless, and he knew, even did the elephant give in now, it would be months before they were healed, if indeed they ever healed at all.
Of course, I sprang from Rataplan's back and ordered the groom to lead him back into the stables. 'Come into the inn, said I, 'and let me know exactly what it is that you wish me to do. He led the way into a sitting-room, and fastened the door lest we should be interrupted.
The frosty morning air made Rataplan's great black limbs and the beautiful curves of his back and sides gleam and shimmer with every gambade. As for me, the rattle of hoofs upon a road, and the jingle of bridle chains which comes with every toss of a saucy head, would even now set my blood dancing through my veins.
Let him go, he added, in English, to the trooper, 'he is too weak to fly, even if he desired to. In the light of the lantern I saw that this monk was a magnificent man, dark and bearded, with the eyes of a hawk, and so tall that his cowl came up to Rataplan's ears.
Rataplan's heart was not exactly melted, but he was evidently interested and touched by the delicate attentions, and he became a little less morose and a little less moody; he even moved out of the tangled mass of undergrowth in which he had been standing, and deigned to talk to her a little bit; and Kinka made herself just as interesting as she possibly could.
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