“Well,” said Wolf to Ganelon, “are you in the humour to digest affronts like those?”
“I fancy, my lord duke, you have had your share of them too, and they don’t seem to disagree with you.”
“It would be only right to chastise him for his insolence.”
“And pray what hinders you?” said the count, smiling.
“The same reason that teaches you patience. This Roland is a brute and a——”
Cut here the idlers congregated around the two vanquished knights, and mocked at them unsparingly. Not being anxious to supply public amusement gratis, they thought fit to retreat, and returned to their tents, where they passed the night in the formation of projects that were far from Christian, though they originated in Christian brains.
