"T. H. White - The Once and Future King" - читать интересную книгу автора (White T.H)

"She will run away."
"Will you run away, Meg?"
"Yes, please, Master Gawaine."
"There."
"Then she must be tied."
"Oh, Master Gaheris, if it is your will, need I be tied?"
"Close your mouth. You are only a girl."
"There is nothing to tie her with."
"I am the captain, my heroes, and I command that Gareth runs back home to fetch some rope."
"That I will not."
"But you will destroy everything, if you do not do so."
"I do not see why I should have to go. I thought of it."
"Then I command our Agravaine to go."
"Not I."


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"Let Gaheris go."
"I will not."
"Meg, you wicked girl, you are not to run away, do you hear?"
"Yes, Master Gawaine. But, oh, Master Gawaine тАФ"
"If we could find a strong heather root," said Agravaine, "we could tie her pigtails together, round the
other side of it."
"We will do that."
"Oh, oh!"
After they had secured the virgin, the four boys stood round her, discussing the next stage. They had
abstracted real boar-spears from the armoury, so they were properly armed.
"This girl," said Agravaine, "is my mother. This is what our Mammy was at doing yesterday. And I am
going to be Sir Grummore."
"I will be Pellinore."
"Agravaine can be Grummore if he wants to be, but the bait has got to be left alone. It says so in the
book."
"Oh, Master Gawaine, oh, Master Agravaine!"
"Stop howling. You will frighten the unicorn."
"And then we must go away and hide. That is why our mother did not catch it, because the knights
stayed with her."
"I am going to be Finn MacCoul."
"I shall be Sir Palomides."
"Oh, Master Gawaine, pray do not leave me alone."
"Hold in your noise," said Gawaine. "You are silly. You ought to be proud to be the bait. Our mother
was, yesterday."
Gareth said, "Never mind, Meg, do not cry. We will not let it hurt you."
"After all, it can only kill you," said Agravaine brutally.
At this the unfortunate girl began to weep more than ever.
"Why did you say that?" asked Gawaine angrily. "You always try to frighten people. Now she is at
howling more than before."