[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]@TWC D-Link book
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHAPTER XLII
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They were laughing in their sleeves over their smartness in selling stock to him at 15 and 16 and along there that wasn't worth 10.

Well, when they had laughed long enough on that side of their mouths, they rested-up that side by shifting the laugh to the other side.
That was when they compromised with the Invincible at 283!" "Good land!" "He skinned them alive, and they deserved it--anyway, the whole kingdom rejoiced.

Well, among the flayed were Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred, nephews to the king.

End of the first act.

Act second, scene first, an apartment in Carlisle castle, where the court had gone for a few days' hunting.


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