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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHAPTER XX
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But here, by good luck, no one's eyes but mine are under the enchantment, and so it is of no consequence to dissolve it.
These ladies remain ladies to you, and to themselves, and to everybody else; and at the same time they will suffer in no way from my delusion, for when I know that an ostensible hog is a lady, that is enough for me, I know how to treat her." "Thanks, oh, sweet my lord, thou talkest like an angel.

And I know that thou wilt deliver them, for that thou art minded to great deeds and art as strong a knight of your hands and as brave to will and to do, as any that is on live." "I will not leave a princess in the sty, Sandy.

Are those three yonder that to my disordered eyes are starveling swine-herds--" "The ogres, Are _they_ changed also?
It is most wonderful.

Now am I fearful; for how canst thou strike with sure aim when five of their nine cubits of stature are to thee invisible?
Ah, go warily, fair sir; this is a mightier emprise than I wend." "You be easy, Sandy.

All I need to know is, how _much_ of an ogre is invisible; then I know how to locate his vitals.


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