"Let's pretend that we're a company of troubadours, minnesingers, jongleurs, acrobats and what not, going from one great castle to another." "I suppose Antoine there is the chief acrobat ?" "He might do a flip-flap, but if he did the earth would shake." "Then you are the chief troubadour.

Where is your harp or viol, Sir Knight of the Tuneful Road ?" "I'm merely imagining character, not action.

I haven't a harp or a viol, and if I had them I couldn't play on either." "Do you think it right to talk In English to the strange young American, Mademoiselle?
Would Madame your mother approve ?" said Suzanne in a fierce whisper.
"It is sometimes necessary in war, Suzanne, to talk where one would not do so in peace," replied Julie gravely, and then she said to John again in English: "We cannot carry out the pretense, Mr.Scott.The tuneful or merry folk of the Middle Ages did not travel with arms.

They had no enemies, and they were welcome everywhere.

Nor did they travel as we do to the accompaniment of war.