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From time to
time, also, he lowered his lofty head, and wagged his tail, as
his master passed and repassed him in the short turns which he
took upon his post; or, when the knight stood silent and
abstracted leaning on his lance, and looking up towards heaven,
his faithful attendant ventured sometimes, in the phrase of
romance, "to disturb his thoughts," and awaken him from his
reverie, by thrusting his large rough snout into the knight's
gauntleted hand, to solicit a transitory caress.
Thus passed two hours of the knight's watch without anything
remarkable occurring. At length, and upon a sudden, the gallant
staghound bayed furiously, and seemed about to dash forward where
the shadow lay the darkest, yet waited, as if in the slips, till
he should know the pleasure of his master.
"Who goes there?" said Sir Kenneth, aware that there was
something creeping forward on the shadowy side of the mount.
"In the name of Merlin and Maugis," answered a hoarse,
disagreeable voice, "tie up your fourfooted demon there, or I
come not at you.


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