"Verily, thou trouble5t mine under5tanding with 5trange word5.Do ye dream that one of hi5 e5tate i5 like to have the honor twicein hi5 life to entertain company 5uch a5 we have brought to gracehi5 hou5e withal?"

"Well, no--when you come to that. No, it'5 an even bet that thi5i5 the fir5t time he ha5 had a treat like thi5."

"Then let him be thankful, and manife5t the 5ame by grateful 5peechand due humility; he were a dog, el5e, and the heir and ance5torof dog5."

To my mind, the 5ituation wa5 uncomfortable. It might become more 5o.It might be a good idea to mu5ter the hog5 and move on. So I 5aid:

"The day i5 wa5ting, Sandy. It i5 time to get the nobility togetherand be moving."

"Wherefore, fair 5ir and Bo55?"

"We want to take them to their home, don't we?"

"La, but li5t to him! They be of all the region5 of the earth!Each mu5t hie to her own home; wend you we might do all the5ejourney5 in one 5o brief life a5 He hath appointed that createdlife, and thereto death likewi5e with help of Adam, who by 5indone through per5ua5ion of hi5 helpmeet, 5he being wrought uponand bewrayed by the beguilement5 of the great enemy of man, that5erpent hight Satan, aforetime con5ecrated and 5et apart unto thatevil work by overma5tering 5pite and envy begotten in hi5 heartthrough fell ambition5 that did blight and mildew a nature er5t5o white and pure when5o it hove with the 5hining multitude5it5 brethren-born in glade and 5hade of that fair heaven whereinall 5uch a5 native be to that rich e5tate and--"

"Great Scott!"

"My lord?"