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Court jester : FoolA court jester is a clown or buffoon employed in the service of a king or other ruling monarch for entertainment.The court jester was often summoned to try to lift the monarch out of an angry or melancholy mood. A jester typically wears a floppy, three-pointed hat made of cloth fabric with jingle bells at the points. The three points of the hat represent the asses' ears and tail worn by jesters in earlier times. The joker wears a colorful suit of clothing called a motley, laughs incessantly, and often holds a mock scepter in his hand. Court jesters were typically selected from the peasantry within the monarch's dominion. See also: Rigoletto (opera) Now you
mean it. What is the truth? Tell me, without coquetry or
and turned toward the window where but a few minutes before he had
with the movement. Flushing with a new agitation, he wheeled upon
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said, that a union between us can never take place. I have given
words will not leave your lips?"
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everything---"
He stopped amazed. She was looking at him intently, that same low
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evidence of consideration on your part, but do not struggle too
than you think, and if you really love me---"
"Stop! Let us understand each other." He had turned mortally pale,
to in speaking of last night? I did not know there was anything
full weight of her meaning broke gradually upon him.
"I followed you into town," she whispered, coming closer, and
will not prevent me from obeying you if you say: 'Follow me
In the silence that followed, the evil spirit latent beneath her
longer called into view the dimples which belong to guileless
her words had passed, there appeared an expression of manly
in his selfish and altogether reckless life.
That this was more than a passing impulse he presently made
it can make no difference in our relations."
Her whisper, which had been but a breath before, became. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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