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The Tavern Knight

CHAPTER VIII
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But five hours more are left thee." "And it is to tell me this that you have awakened me ?" demanded Galliard in such a voice that he of the cloak recoiled a step, as if he thought a blow must follow.

"Out on you for an unmannerly cur to break upon a gentleman's repose." "I come," returned the other in his droning voice, "to call upon thee to repent." "Plague me not," answered Crispin, with a yawn.

"I would sleep." "Soundly enough shalt thou sleep in a few hours' time.

Bethink thee, miserable sinner, of thy soul." "Sir," cried the Tavern Knight, "I am a man of marvellous short endurance.

But mark you this your ways to heaven are not my ways.
Indeed, if heaven be peopled by such croaking things as you, I shall be thankful to escape it.


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