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Then Misset raised his head fro voice he

said slowly, "My boy would only live to serve his King Why should he

not serve his King before he lives? My ill say the like"

There was a depth of quiet feeling in his words which Wogan would never

have expected from Misset; and the words the, however ht to expect They took Wogan's breath away, and

not Wogan's only, but Gaydon's and O'Toole's, too A longer silence than

before followed upon them The very si, and made those three ht

O'Toole was the first to break the silence

"It is a strange thing that there never was a father since Adam as

not absolutely sure in his heart that his first-born must be a boy When

you come to think philosophically about it, you'll see that if fathers

had their way the world would be peopled with sons with never a bit of

a lass in any corner to hter, made a pretext for

it, at which all--even Misset, as a trifle ashaan held his hand out and clasped

Misset's

"That was a great saying," said he, "but so much sacrifice is not to be

accepted"

Misset, however, was firh naturally timid,

could show a fine spirit on occasion, and would never forgive one of