Once or twice Cluny gave a dry nervous kind of laugh.
Much of what Gaston had said was here in stately old-fashioned language.
At a certain point the MS.

ran: "I drew back and said, 'As your grace will have it, then--"' Here Gaston came to a sitting posture, and interrupted.
"Wait, wait!" He rose, caught one of two swords that were crossed on the wall, and stood out.
"This is how it was.

'As your grace will have it, then, to no waste of time!' We fell to.

First he came carefully and made strange feints, learned at King Louis's Court, to try my temper.

But I had had these tricks of my cousin Secord, and I returned his sport upon him.