"I am sure that you are unjustly suspicious.

How many times have I leaned on his stout arm! He taught Alexia a thousand tricks of horse, so that to-day she rides as no other woman in the kingdom rides.

Would that I stood half so straight and looked at the world half so fearlessly.

He is the first soldier in the kingdom." "All men are honest in your Majesty's eyes," said the archbishop.
"All save the man within me," replied the king.
At this juncture the king's old valet came in with the evening meal; and soon after the prelate and the chancellor withdrew from the chamber.
"How long will he live ?" asked the latter.
"A year; perhaps only till to-morrow.

Ah, had he but listened to me several years ago, all this would not have come to pass.