日期：2009-12-15 The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito ABOUT bedtime I took the king to my private quarters住处，营房 to cut his hair and help him get the hang of熟知某物的用法 the lowly raiment衣服 he was to wear. The high classes wore their hair banged across t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 26 - The First Newspaper WHEN I told the king I was going out disguised as a petty freeman to scour the country and familiarize myself with the humbler life of the people, he was all afire with the novelty of the thing in a minute, and was b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 25 - A Competitive Examination WHEN the king traveled for change of air, or made a progress, or visited a distant noble whom he wished to bankrupt with the cost of his keep, part of the administration moved with him. It was a fashion of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 24 - A Rival Magician MY influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. The thought came to me the next morning, and was suggested by my seeing one of my kn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 23 - Restoration of the Fountain SATURDAY noon I went to the well and looked on a while. Merlin was still burning smoke-powders, and pawing the air, and muttering gibberish as hard as ever, but looking pretty down-hearted, for of course he h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 22 - The Holy Fountain THE pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 WHEN I did get to bed at last I was unspeakably tired; the stretching out, and the relaxing of the long-tense muscles, how luxurious, how delicious! but that was as far as I could get -- sleep was out of the question for the present. The ripping and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 20 - The Ogre's Castle BETWEEN six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple -- man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook. Right so came by and by a knight rid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 19 - Knight-Errantry as a Trade SANDY and I were on the road again, next morning, bright and early. It was so good to open up one's lungs and take in whole luscious barrels-ful of the blessed God's untainted, dew-fashioned, woodlandscented a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 18 - In The Queen's Dungeons WELL, I arranged all that; and I had the man sent to his home. I had a great desire to rack the executioner; not because he was a good, painstaking and paingiving official, -- for surely it was not to his discred... 阅读全文>>

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>>