日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 17 - A Royal Banquet MADAME, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excuse; for her fright dissolved away, and she was soon so importunate to have me give an exhibition and kill somebody, that the thing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 16 - Morgan Le Fay IF knights errant were to be believed, not all castles were desirable places to seek hospitality in. As a matter of fact, knights errant were NOT persons to be believed -- that is, measured by modern standards of veracity;... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 15 - Sandy's Tale AND so I'm proprietor of some knights, said I, as we rode off. Who would ever have supposed that I should live to list up assets of that sort. I shan't know what to do with them; unless I raffle them off. How many of them a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 14 - Defend Thee, Lord I PAID three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and I had always been a kind... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 13 - Freemen YES, it is strange how little a while at a time a person can be contented. Only a little while back, when I was riding and suffering, what a heaven this peace, this rest, this sweet serenity in this secluded shady nook by this p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 12 - Slow Torture STRAIGHT off, we were in the country. It was most lovely and pleasant in those sylvan solitudes in the early cool morning in the first freshness of autumn. From hilltops we saw fair green valleys lying spread out below, wit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 11 - The Yankee in Search of Adventures THERE never was such a country for wandering liars; and they were of both sexes. Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or oth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 10 - Beginnings of Civilization THE Round Table soon heard of the challenge, and of course it was a good deal discussed, for such things interested the boys. The king thought I ought now to set forth in quest of adventures, so that I might g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 9 - The Tournament THEY were always having grand tournaments there at Camelot; and very stirring and picturesque and ridiculous human bull-fights they were, too, but just a little wearisome to the practical mind. However, I was generally on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 8 - The Boss TO be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. The tower episode solidified my power, and made it impregnable. If any were perchance disposed to be jealous and cr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 INASMUCH as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as far as political power and authorty were concerned, much was made of me. My raiment was of silks and velvets and cloth of gold, and by consequence was very showy, also uncomfortable. But... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 6 - The Eclipse IN the stillness and the darkness, realization soon began to supplement knowledge. The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to REALIZE your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 5 - An Inspiration I WAS so tired that even my fears were not able to keep me awake long. When I next came to myself, I seemed to have been asleep a very long time. My first thought was, Well, what an astonishing dream I've had! I reckon I'v... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 IT seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; it was pleasant to the others when it was fresh, no doubt. Sir Dinadan the Humorist was the first to awake, an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 MAINLY the Round Table talk was monologues -- narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor. As a general thing -- as far as I could make out -... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way: Friend, do me a kindness. Do you belong to the asylum, or are you just on a visit or somethi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 CAMELOT -- Camelot, said I to myself. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely. It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion? -- what it was he'd planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he managed to set a nigger free that was already free before? And he said, what he had pla... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 THE old man was uptown again before breakfast, but couldn't get no track of Tom; and both of them set at the table thinking, and not saying nothing, and looking mournful, and their coffee getting cold, and not eating anything. And by and by the old... 阅读全文>>