I am clean.

Call the colonel of the guard.' In complete steel the old man stepped into the chamber.

He knew it not, but the old princess had passed through his room in the night.
'Why, Sir Bronzebeard!' said the king, 'you are dressed before me! You need no valet, old man, when there is battle in the wind!' 'Battle, sire!' returned the colonel.

'Where then are our soldiers ?' 'Why, there and here,' answered the king, pointing to the colonel first, and then to himself.

'Where else, man?
The enemy will be upon us ere sunset, if we be not upon him ere noon.