[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 XXX 16/20
That feeling was not brought to the surface, but the fact that it was there and could have been brought out, under favoring circumstances, was something--in fact, it was enough; for it showed that a man is at bottom a man, after all, even if it doesn't show on the outside. Well, as it turned out, this charcoal burner was just the twin of the Southern "poor white" of the far future.
The king presently showed impatience, and said: "An ye prattle here all the day, justice will miscarry.
Think ye the criminals will abide in their father's house? They are fleeing, they are not waiting.
You should look to it that a party of horse be set upon their track." The woman paled slightly, but quite perceptibly, and the man looked flustered and irresolute.
I said: "Come, friend, I will walk a little way with you, and explain which direction I think they would try to take.
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