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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: --now hurry!"
The corporal marched his troopers from the guardroom
toward the stables. The man in the king's clothes touched a
bell which was obviously a servant call. He waited impa-
tiently a reply to his summons, tapping his finger-tips against
the sword-scabbard that was belted to his side. At last a
sleepy-eyed man responded--a man who had grown gray
in the service of Peter of Blentz. At sight of the king he
opened his eyes in astonishment, pulled his foretop, and
bowed uneasily.
"Come closer," whispered the king. The man did so, and
The Mad King |
