Subject for May, 2016
Chapter 44 – A Postscript by Clarence
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I, CLARENCE, must write it for him. He proposed that we two go out and see if any help could be accorded the wounded. I was strenuous against the project. I said that if there w...
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Chapter 43 – The Battle of the Sand Belt
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
IN Merlin’s Cave — Clarence and I and fifty-two fresh, bright, well-educated, clean-minded young British boys. At dawn I sent an order to the factories and to all o...
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Chapter 42 – War!
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I FOUND Clarence alone in his quarters, drowned in melancholy; and in place of the electric light, he had reinstituted the ancient rag-lamp, and sat there in a grisly twilight w...
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Chapter 41 – The Interdict
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
HOWEVER, my attention was suddenly snatched from such matters; our child began to lose ground again, and we had to go to sitting up with her, her case became so serious. We coul...
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Chapter 40 – Three Years Later
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
WHEN I broke the back of knight-errantry that time, I no longer felt obliged to work in secret. So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools, my mines, and my vast system o...
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Chapter 39 – The Yankee’s Fight With the Knights
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
HOME again, at Camelot. A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. I turned to the advertising columns, knowing I should ...
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Chapter 38 – Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
NEARING four in the afternoon. The scene was just outside the walls of London. A cool, comfortable, superb day, with a brilliant sun; the kind of day to make one want to live, n...
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Chapter 37 – An Awful Predicament
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
SLEEP? It was impossible. It would naturally have been impossible in that noisome cavern of a jail, with its mangy crowd of drunken, quarrelsome, and song-singing rapscallions. ...
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Chapter 36 – An Encounter in the Dark
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
LONDON — to a slave — was a sufficiently interesting place. It was merely a great big village; and mainly mud and thatch. The streets were muddy, crooked, unpaved. T...
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Chapter 35 – A Pitiful Incident
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
IT’S a world of surprises. The king brooded; this was natural. What would he brood about, should you say? Why, about the prodigious nature of his fall, of course — f...
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