11/33 "Is it to be done here, too, sire ?" "Would you let some escape, to return by-and-by and cut our throats ?" the King retorted, with a strange spirt of fury; an incapacity to maintain the same attitude of mind for two minutes together was the most fatal weakness of his ill-balanced nature. "No. All! All!" he repeated with vehemence. "Didn't Noah people the earth with eight? And my old nurse, whether or no. |