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,”said Glozelle sulkily.
“You talk like an old woman,Glozelle,”said the King.“What say you,my Lord Sopespian?”
“Do not touch it,Sire,”was the reply.“And what your Majesty says of the policy of the thing comes in very happily.It gives your Majesty excellent grounds for a refusal without any cause for questioning your Majesty’s honour or courage.”
“Great Heaven!”exclaimed Miraz,jumping to his feet.“Are you also bewitched today? Do you think I am looking for grounds to refuse it? You might as well call me coward to my face.”
The conversation was going exactly as the two lords wished,so they said nothing.
“I see what it is,”said Miraz,after staring at them as if his eyes would start out of his head,“you are as lily-livered as hares yourselves and have the effrontery to imagine my heart after the likeness of yours! Grounds for a refusal,indeed! Excuses for not fighting! Are you soldiers? Are you Telmarines? Are you men? And if I do refuse it as ail good re