“Enough is as good as a feast.”
“I will give thee a fortune for thy talisman.”
“Its virtue lies in myself.”
“Ah! Then the casket must be mine too.”
He sat up suddenly, all rumpled, and bellowed out in a thick, slurred
voice,--
“Away, dolts and rapscallions! What! are you prying and listening?”
The secretary hurried to the door, and disappeared. The officer
lingered only to protest--
“Affairs of urgency, sire”--
“Pooh!” said the king. “I am attending to them.”