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Updated: May 13, 2025
But that blunt soldier, though he could make a shift to express himself intelligibly enough to King Louis, to whose familiarity he was habituated, yet found himself incapable of enunciating his resolution before so splendid an assembly as that before which he then stood; and after having turned his shoulder to the princes, and preluded with a hoarse chuckling laugh, and two or three tremendous contortions of countenance, he was only able to pronounce the words, "Saunders Souplejaw" and then stuck fast.
Le Balafré dared not speak aloud in such a presence, but he muttered to himself: "Now, Saunders Souplejaw, hold thine own! Thou always saidst the fortune of our house was to be won by marriage, and never had you such a chance to keep your word with us." The Countess of Crèvecoeur whispered to Isabelle, that perhaps the successful competitor might prove one who should reconcile to obedience.
Le Balafre dared not speak aloud in such a presence, but he muttered to himself, "Now, Saunders Souplejaw, hold thine own! thou always saidst the fortune of our house was to be won by marriage, and never had you such a chance to keep your word with us." "No one thinks of me," said Le Glorieux, "who am sure to carry off the prize from all of you."
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