It was the most welcome sight I have ever seen, and I shall ever love to look on a horse of that--of those--" "Patchwork colours," laughed the king.
"Wilfrid, so long as you live you will no more be taken for a saint than shall I again.

Make the most thereof.

Of a truth I will even buy me a skew-bald mount and ride round corners in search of the like reputation.

Nay, sell me yours straightway!" "No, King Ethelbert," I answered--"not even to yourself after he has won me that word, and since he has borne so fair a burden." "Let us go straightway," said Ethelbert.

"You will not better that speech if you bide here for an hour.
"Farewell, mother; and farewell, ladies." He bowed, and I did my best to leave gracefully, all those who were present rising again as he went, and returning his bow.