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

Gawaine might have been taken ill. That blow which Lancelot gave him the second time, perhaps it
perched his brain-pan?"
"Perhaps." Bors banged the fire.
"To go off like that, and never say a word!"
"Why doesn't Lancelot do something?"
"What can he do?"
"I don't know."
"The King has banished him."
"Yes."
"Then there is nothing to do."
"All the same," said Bleoberis, "I wish he would do something."
A door opened with a clatter at the bottom of the turret stairs. The tapestries swirled out, the rushes stood
on end, the fire gushed smoke, and Lancelot's voice embedded in the wind, shouted: "Bors! Bleoberis!
Demaris!"
"Here."
"Where?"
"Up here."
As the distant door closed, silence returned to the room. The rushes lay down again, and Lancelot's feet
sounded clearly on the stone steps, where before it had been difficult to hear his shout. He came in
hastily, carrying a letter.
"Bors. Bleoberis. I have been looking for you."
They had stood up.


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"A letter has come from England. The messengers were blown ashore, five miles up the coast. We shall
have to go at once."
"To England?"
"Yes, yes. To England, of course. I have told Lionel to act as transport officer, and I want you, Bors, to
look after the fodder. We shall have to wait until the gale blows itself out."
"Why are we going?" asked Bors.
"You should tell us the news..."
"News?" he said vaguely. "There is no time for that. I will tell you in the boat. Here, read the letter."
He handed it to Bors, and was gone before they could reply.
"Well!"
"Read what it says."
"I don't even know who it is from."
"Perhaps it will say in the letter."
Lancelot re-appeared before they had taken their researches further than the date.
"Bleoberis," he said, "I forgot. I want you to look after the horses. Here, give me the writing. If you two
start speffing it out, you will be reading all night."
"What does it say?"
"Most of the news came by the messenger. It seems that Mordred has revolted against Arthur,
proclaimed himself the Leader of England, and proposed to Guenever."
"But she is married already," protested Bleoberis.
"That was why the siege was broken up. Then, it appears, Mordred raised an army in Kent to oppose the
King's landing. He had given it out that Arthur was dead. He is besieging the Queen in the Tower of