“It’s a bit rough lu them, isn’t it?” said Scrubb.
“Thou art a lad of a wondrous, quick-w wit！” exclaimed the Knight. “For, on my honour, I had hought of it so before. I e your meaning.” He looked slightly, very slightly troubled for a moment or two; but his face soon cleared and he broke out, with another of his loud laughs, “But fie on gravity！ Is it not the most ical and ridiculous thing in the world to think of them all going about their business and never dreaming that uheir peaceful fields and floors, only a fathom down, there is a great army ready to break out upon them like a fountain！ And they o have suspected！ Why, they themlves, when ohe first smart of their defeat is over, hardly choo but laugh at the thought！”
“I don’t think it’s funny at all,” said Jill. “I think you’ll be a wicked tyrant.”
“What?” said the Knight, still laughing and patting her head in a quite infuriating fashion. “Is our little maid a deep politi? But never fear, sweetheart. In ruling that land, I shall do all by the l of my Lady, who will then be my Queen too. Her word shall be my law, even as my word will be law to the people we have quered.”
“It’s a bit rough lu them, isn’t it?” said Scrubb.
“Thou art a lad of a wondrous, quick-w wit！” exclaimed the Knight. “For, on my honour, I had hought of it so before. I e your meaning.” He looked slightly, very slightly troubled for a moment or two; but his face soon cleared and he broke out, with another of his loud laughs, “But fie on gravity！ Is it not the most ical and ridiculous thing in the world to think of them all going about their business and never dreaming that uheir peaceful fields and floors, only a fathom down, there is a great army ready to break out upon them like a fountain！ And they o have suspected！ Why, they themlves, when ohe first smart of their defeat is over, hardly choo but laugh at the thought！”
“I don’t think it’s funny at all,” said Jill. “I think you’ll be a wicked tyrant.”
“What?” said the Knight, still laughing and patting her head in a quite infuriating fashion. “Is our little maid a deep politi? But never fear, sweetheart. In ruling that land, I shall do all by the l of my Lady, who will then be my Queen too. Her word shall be my law, even as my word will be law to the people we have quered.”