A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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1. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - (1)
   PREFACE The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also…
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   He made a long story of it; but the part that had immediate interest for me was this: He said I was Sir Kay's prisoner, and that in the due…
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   “Ah, Clarence, good boy, only friend I've got, for you are my friend, aren't you? don't fail me; help me to devise some way of escaping fro…
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   One thing troubled me along at first the immense interest which people took in me. Apparently the whole nation wanted a look at me. It soon…
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   I not only watched this tournament from day to day, but detailed an intelligent priest from my Department of Public Morals and Agriculture,…
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   “Oh, that's all right, that's all right, give us a rest; never mind about the direction, hang the direction I beg pardon, I beg a thousand…
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   We were off before sunrise, Sandy riding and I limping along behind. In half an hour we came upon a group of ragged poor creatures who had…
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   “Man of prowess yes, that is the man to please them, Sandy. Man of brains that is a thing they never think of. Tom Sayers John Heenan John…
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   Madame, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excuse; for her fright dissolved away, and she was so…
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    I had had enough of this grisly place by this time, and wanted to leave, but I couldn't, because I had something on my mind that my conscie…
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    And with these words and others, he lightly took his spear and gat him thence. In the middle of the afternoon we came upon one of those ver…
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    Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims; but in this one was no merriment, no jokes, no laughter, no playful ways…
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    “I would I might please thee, sir, and it is to me dole and sorrow that I fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of none, be…
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    “You promise this? you promise it? Say the word say you promise it!” “I do promise it.” “Then will I have the first bath myself! Go get ye…
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    Well, the king was out of the hole; and on terms satisfactory to the Church and the rest of the aristocracy, no doubt. Men write many fine…
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    Marinel took the patients as they came. He examined the candidate; if he couldn't qualify he was warned off; if he could he was passed alon…
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    Every day a knight-errant or so came along, and the sight of them fired the king's martial spirit every time. He would have forgotten himse…
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    “Since that day we are avoided, shunned with horror. None has come near this hut to know whether we live or not. The rest of us were taken…
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    Yes, I made various acquaintances in the hamlet and a thing that gratified me a good deal was to find our new coins in circulation lots of…
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    However, I made a dead set at him, and before the first third of the dinner was reached, I had him happy again. It was easy to do in a coun…
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    I was right. He began, straight off, in the most innocently artful, and transparent, and lubberly way, to lead up to the subject of agricul…
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    His answer was as sharp as before, but it was music this time; I shouldn't ever wish to hear pleasanter, though the profanity was not good,…
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    “They shall start in half an hour.” “All right, Clarence; now tell this lad here that I'm a friend of yours and a dead-head; and that he mu…
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    Said I to myself, as I coiled my lariat and hung it on my saddle-horn, and sat there drunk with glory, “The victory is perfect no other wil…
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    I didn't laugh I am always thankful for that but the strain ruptured every cartilage in me, and for weeks afterward I could hear my bones c…
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    “That was the nature of it. After that I put up some signs, for the protection of future committees, and we have had no intruders since.” “…
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    We concluded to make a tour between the inner fences. We elected to walk upright, for convenience's sake; we argued that if discerned, we s…