A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Beyond World's Classics

ISBN-10
ISBN-13: 9798675004966
Series: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Pages: 302
Language: English
Published: 2020-08-14
Publisher: Independently Published
Author: Mark Twain

Description

It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company-for he did all the talking. We fell together, as modest people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he at once began to say things which interested me. As he talked along, softly, pleasantly, flowingly, he seemed to drift away imperceptibly out of this world and time, and into some remote era and old forgotten country; and so he gradually wove such a spell about me that I seemed to move among the specters and shadows and dust and mold of a gray antiquity, holding speech with a relic of it!