chater eleven the dark catle (第2/17页)
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o they tell me,and they certainly speak truth, for my Lady says the same. I myself know nothing of it,for when my hour is past I awake forgetful of all that vile fit and in my proper shape and sound mind—saving that I am somewhat wearied. (Little lady,eat one of these honey cakes,which are brought for me from some barbarous land in the far south of the world.)Now the Queen’s majesty knows by her art that I shall be freed from this enchantment when once she has made me king of a land in the Overworld and set its crown upon my head. The land is already chosen and the very place of our breaking out. Her Earthmen have worked day and night digging a way beneath it,and have now gone so far and so high that they tunnel not a score of feet beneath the very grass on which the Updwellers of that country walk. It will be very soon now that those Uplanders’ fate will come upon them. She herself is at the diggings tonight,and I expect a message to go to her. Then the thin roof of earth which still