The Ill-Made Knight
“The King of Navarre’s star was climbing – his Spanish officers were haughty as cardinals, and a mere ‘English adventurer’, as I heard myself called, was unlikely to impress anyone, most especially as I declined to offer a bribe to the boy who tracked ‘appointments’.After an hour, I saw a man in black and white parti-colour approaching. I wanted to vanish, but I wasn’t about to give up my place on the bench. It was the Bourc Camus, trailing men-at-arms, and he came to the bench. Two of his men s...eized it and dumped us all on the ground.While he was laughing, I put my fist in his face.Gascons fear nothing, it is true, and I wasn’t going to cow a dozen Gascons with a dagger, but neither was I capable of backing down. So I drew de Charny’s dagger and snapped the flat pommel into one miscreant’s jaw.The rest of them took me seriously, so they formed a rough circle.‘Eh, messire,’ said one gap-toothed rogue. ‘You will pay now.’‘The King of Navarre sends to ask why this unseemly disturbance?’ said a man with an arrogant lisp to his French.MoreLess
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