Midwinter Town: A Novella
“What sort of a cat am I, little outlaw, to creep along roofs after you? Is that the way you pay me for loving you?”
“I love you too, but from the roof.”
“Grandfather wants his way; grandmother will have hers. Come down to me this minute!”
“I will not go down!”
“It is laughable, as God is dear to me, to take defeat to heart as you do. Not you alone, angry weasel, but Jargan, who passed for a master of masters, did Sir Geswer treat in this way, and not in sport, but in a duel. The most famous swordsmen Istigirs, Gespirs, and Sweerts could not stand before him longer than during one ' Our Father and here such a gadfly takes the affair to heart.