I will do this thing for the fourth time ; but I would beg of
you to invent another task against to-morrow, for by my
troth, I am weary of this one."



Ji)e /T\aster of Ballaptrae 235

"You do not know what you are saj-ing," returned my
lord, putting on his hat and turning his back to me. "It is
a strange thing yoii should take a pleasure to annoy me. A
friend — but that is a different affair. It is a strange thing.
