[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link bookA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court CHAPTER XXI 4/22
I have no family." "No family? Why, Sandy, isn't this your home ?" "Now how indeed might that be? I have no home." "Well, then, whose house is this ?" "Ah, wit you well I would tell you an I knew myself." "Come--you don't even know these people? Then who invited us here ?" "None invited us.
We but came; that is all." "Why, woman, this is a most extraordinary performance.
The effrontery of it is beyond admiration.
We blandly march into a man's house, and cram it full of the only really valuable nobility the sun has yet discovered in the earth, and then it turns out that we don't even know the man's name.
How did you ever venture to take this extravagant liberty? I supposed, of course, it was your home.
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