Part 5 (1/2)
”So the Princess Yas, eh? And here's To his horse and sweating through a clean tunic--with a threat in his ear and a reward promised that he'll never see a sarettes--”
”In very good coood cohty, naughty!” he said, wagging a finger at her ”Your ladyshi+p'll get caught one of these days, and where will Toot my job to keep, you know Friendshi+p's friendshi+p and respect's respect, but duty's what I'm paid to do Here's me, drill- to uard over you, hness' leave And here's you giving the guard the slip! Sohness off, and I wish you'd heard what's going to happen to me unless I find you!”
”You can't find h!”
”Tut-tut, Your Ladyshi+p; that won't do! I swore on my Bible oath to the uarded in the palace across the river He felt easy for the first time for a week Now, because they're afraid for their skins, the guard all swear by Krishna you were never in there, and that I've been bribed! How did you get out of the grounds, ht have remembered you're as active as a cat! Next tiuard on the wall, so they'll tumble off and break their necks if they fall asleep But there are no boats, for I saw to it, and the bridge is watched How did you cross the river?”
”Swaht?”
The blue eyes smiled assent
”Missy--Your Ladyshi+p, you ht lose the number of their ilators--what d'ye call the da and pull you under! The sweeter and prettier you are the more they like you! Besides, ar”
He contrived to look the very incarnation of offended prudery, and she laughed at hiain with a gesture of apology
”You'll pardonthe play i Tom Tripe of more complaisance than he chose to admit to his prisoner
”You arden wall orders I suppose are orders Inside it I insist all guests are free and equal”
The Princess Yashed delightedly
”There, Tom Tripe! Noill you do?”
”I'll have to use persuasion, ot into your own palace unseen and out again with a horse without a soul knowing?”
”'Coht,' said the hunter; but the leopard is still at large 'Teach ed the hunter; but the leopard answered, 'Learn them!' '
”hell's bells!”
Tom Tripe scratched his head and wiped sweat fro away into the distance, not apparently inclined to take the soldier seriously Tess, wondering what her guest found interesting on the horizon all of a sudden, herself picked out the third beggar's shabby outline on the sa before dawn
”Will your ladyshi+p ride home with me?” asked Tom Tripe
”No”
”But why not?”
”Because the co and there is only one road and he would see nize me, but you are too stupid to tell wise lies, and this inary place called hell that Iin hell when I was ten years old,” Tess answered