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For a moment a dozen challenges flashed backwards and forwards at
this sudden bursting of the cloud which had lowered so long
between the knights of the two nations. Furious and
gesticulating the Gascons, white and cold and sneering the
English, while the prince with a half smile glanced from one
party to the other, like a man who loved to dwell upon a fiery
scene, and yet dreaded least the mischief go so far that he might
find it beyond his control.
"Friends, friends!" he cried at last, "this quarrel must go no
further. The man shall answer to me, be he Gascon or English,
who carries it beyond this room. I have overmuch need for your
swords that you should turn them upon each other. Sir John
Charnell, Lord Audley, you do not doubt the courage of our
friends of Gascony?"
"Not I, sire," Lord Audley answered. "I have seen them fight too
often not to know that they are very hardy and valiant
gentlemen."
"And so say I," quoth the other Englishman; "but, certes, there
is no fear of our forgetting it while they have a tongue in their
heads.


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