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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHAPTER XVIII
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They sat together on the ground and looked dimly wondering into each other's faces a while, with a sort of weak animal curiosity; then forgot each other's presence, and dropped their eyes, and you saw that they were away again and wandering in some far land of dreams and shadows that we know nothing about.
I had them taken out and sent to their friends.

The queen did not like it much.

Not that she felt any personal interest in the matter, but she thought it disrespectful to Sir Breuse Sance Pite.

However, I assured her that if he found he couldn't stand it I would fix him so that he could.
I set forty-seven prisoners loose out of those awful rat-holes, and left only one in captivity.

He was a lord, and had killed another lord, a sort of kinsman of the queen.


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