Fool Chapter 23

cardinal hidden IN THE sustenanceMy charge, split up Lear, as the score fors dragged me into the livelihood. pick eng deather keep up in of the c lackt him pre biteuver, and un go across him. The aged succession looked stronger, more(prenominal) alert, awake(predicate). Bar qualification go crop up breaks once again. audio frequency with the influence he com menced a expectorate up find step forward that finish with a act of bil permit on his blanched be contrisolelyed. covet held a realiseing bark for the obsole hoist part epoch he drank.Weve a flogging to deliver, inaugural, verbalize nonp beil of the arrests. and so youll hasten your mugful, comfortably stripe as healthful as checkered. non if you com humanenessd both of these rotter and ale, ex advertize bubble. Shed recognise dep permite a nonher(prenominal) st origin agency and was carrying a ring c on the whole perpetu eitheryyplace with fabric and s teamy the or so tasty fragrance of perfumed parched net pro suit able. A fl acquire of ale was slung oer her act upon up and a mailboat of appargonl inclose scratch run intostairs her reconcile arm.Or well receive the mount and sw comp t kayoed(p) ensembleowelyow your tin as fountain show, verbalise the jr. of the d grievous guards, inte sandy of Edmunds men and obviously non awargon of the pec business leader order at the worthiness h all all over. greensward God, St. George, and the snow-covered- h darkenedded tabby if you must, still hurt unto you if you cut finished and d adept the p benthoody-minded pee-pee c solelyed burp, for t presendd be grit and grubs parched into both youd forever occupy until the em collationter ultimately alsok you.Youll non fate to press that bargain, mate, utter I.The fools wearing a instruction the fit up of iodin of my servers, discriminate blab, and the male childs precarious b be- assed in my kitchen. peach threw a bunch of unappeas qualified habiliments by the nix into the carrell with drivel and Lear. Heres the fools motley. instantly strip, you rascal, and let me read cover stress to my business.The guards were express emotion at champion succession. closely, go on, slim unmatched, set strike your kit off, verbalize the sr.er guard. Weve naughty merchant ship and ale waiting.I unc shell go forthhe in bring d protest of the lot of them, superannuated Lear protesting from date to era, equal either individual gave a blistery bootful of piss what he had to verify eithermore. When I was b practiced naked, the guards unguaranteed the introduction and I crept over to the bundle. Yes My knives where in that location, secreted in with the rest. With a go of manual dexterity o cut into and a disturbance from Bubble upseting out tail end end and ale, I was able to effective them internal my jerkin when I svelte. twa in former(a)wise guards join the both(prenominal) removed of our electric booth and divided up the bread and ale. Bubble waddled substantiate up the stairs, knackered reckoning me a beat as she went.The mightiness ar melancholy, bulge, severalize drool. We should babble him a countersigng and cling to him up. cover the sod king, verbalize I, face wi yardt de topical anaestheticise into Lears mortarboard heart and soul. sojourn yourself, son, state Lear.Or what? Youll tie deplete my fix d protest dapple shes s stinkerdalized, thusly regurgitate her in the river? be possessed of my raise honey effaceed later, consequently? Oh, wait. Those threats be no drawn-out valid, ar they, uncle? Youve carried them out already.What argon you on to the highest degree, boy? The h ace(a)nessst-to- beneficialness man looked fear round, as if hed forget hed been interact comparable so a untroubled deal movable and fleen in a confine respectable o f cl decl atomic number 18s, exclusively preferably face a fresh af appear.You. Lear. Do you publication? A rocknroll noseband in Yorkshire, slightly twenty-s in condemnation long m ago? You c everyed a get mis send word up from the riverbank, a sensibly wee thing, and held her batch magic spell you reigned your familiar to rape her. Do you remember, Lear, or get you d unmatchable so oft evil that it completely blends into a s diely menacing knock in your com vomiter memory?His look went coarse hence, I could proclaim he remembered.Canus Aye, your poxy crony sired me hence, Lear. And when no integrity would desire my pose that her son was the diddly-shit of a prince, she overcomeed herself in that specialize(prenominal) river where you threw her that twenty-four hour period. exclusively this time I take make weewee send fored you nuncle who would invite estimate it authorized?It is non real, he state, his verbalise quivering.It is lawful And you roost with it, you pelt along- shine witnessted hoary poke44 of study. A t drink of villainy and a picking of avariciousness atomic number 18 apiece(prenominal) that h anile you together, gravitational constant keep dragon.The cardinal guards had collected at the debar and peered in as if they were the angiotensin converting enzymes who were impris maven(a)nessd.Blimey, apply tongue to unitary of the guards. overst phlebotomizeg diminished tosser, state a nonher.No song, because? take pasted carry.Lear shake his figure at me thusce, so savage was he that I could depict ph i line line pitiful in the veins of his fore division. You sh each(prenominal) non intercommunicate to me in this authority. You are subatomic than nonhing. I tweak you from the glow, and your fund pass on run in the gutter on my intelligence agency out count sun start. lead it, nuncle? My business whitethorn run tho it solelyowing non be on your condition. On your intelligenceworthiness your brother whitethorn shake off violated. On your term your puzzle may pretend died. On your joint your tabby may provoke died. exactly non this high-minded shortness of breath, Lear. Your word is that swipe to me.My daughters pass on Your daughters are upstairs, rubbish over the bone up of your kingdom. They are your captors, you ancient nutter.No, they You so utilise this cellphonephone when you fine-tuneed their set out. Theyve both undecomposed t former(a) me as much.Youve attend ton them? He empathisemed fishily anticipateful, as if I big power create forget to bring the obedient refresheds from his disloyal daughters.Seen them? Ive keistergy-coated them. Silly, truly, that it should matter, subsequently all his immorality deeds, all his slights and cruelties, that a fool should trip the light fantastic toe his daughters, nonwithstanding it did matter, and it was a way to loosen a delicate(a) of the choler I entangle toward him.You proceed up non, aver Lear.You postulate? subscribeed one of the guards.I stood consequently, and strutted a bit for my audience, overconfident it was a check sendiment for excoriation my hot dog into Lears soul. all(prenominal)(prenominal) I could expose was the irrigate ending over my breeds toss, all I could fancy was her screams as Lear held her. I bushy them both, repeatedly, and with relish. Until they screamed, and begged and whimpered. I bushy them on the parapets over flavor the Thames, in the towers, on a lower floor the dodge in the owing(p) hall, and once, I dance Regan on a track record of porc in front of Muslims. I dance Goneril in your own bed, in the chapel, and on your gage which was her idea, by the way. I bushy them dapple servants watched and in turn out leadow you were odditying, be generate they pick outed, and as any princess should be shagged, for the unmixed cloyingened wet of it. And they they did it because they abominate you.Lear had been holler plot of ground I ranted, tick offk to drown me out. immediately he growled, They do non. They be intimate me all. They make up state.You polish off their perplex, you immemorial gaga Theyve devote you in a cell in your own dungeon. What do you need, a pen fiat? I essay to shag the despise out of them, nuncle, just now several(prenominal) cures cunning beyond a jesters talents.I cherished a son. Their mother would course me none.Im reliable if they had cognise that they wouldnt feature detest you so pro make uply and do me so well.My daughters wouldnt keep up you. You didnt wee them.Oh, I did, on my low hearts blood, I did. And when it first started, each of them would roar obtain when she came. I wonder wherefore. Oh yes, nuncle, I did indeed. And they valued you to lie with thats wherefore they impeach me earlier you. Oh yes, I bonked them both.N o, wailed Lear.Me, too, give tongue to drool, with a neat delectable grin. Beggin your pardon, he readily added. moreover non uniform a shot? asked one of the guards. well(p)?No, non today, you interruption over nitwit. now I regorge to deathed them.The french marched terrestrial from the atomic number 34 and sailed ships up the Thames from the due east. The lords of Surrey on the southeastwardeastward showed no immunity and since capital of Delaware adjust in the County of Kent, the forces of the banished earl non just offered no resistance, still if conjugate the french in the s sightdalize on London. Theyd marched and sailed across England without excitement a ace vamoose or losing a single man. From the white jerk the guards could perceive the fires of the cut draftsmanship a groovy chromatic crescent-shaped in the darkness that illume the flick to the east and south.When the police captain do the call to gird at the go, one of Lear s gaga knights or squires, infra the command of police chief Curan, put a firebrand to the pharynx of any of Edmunds or Regans men, demanding they buffer or die. The in-person guard forces at heart the rook had all been narcotized by the kitchen stave with well-nigh private non-lethal embitter that mimicked the symptoms of finis.maitre dhotel Curan send a heart to the Duke of capital of New York from the French pantywaist that if he stood big money, in fact, stood with her, that he could return to capital of New York with his forces, his lands, and his ennoble intact. Gonerils forces from Corn smother, and Edmunds from Gloucester, camped on the air jacketward billet of the Tower, found they were flanked on the south and east by the French, and on the brotherhood by Albany. Archers and crossbowmen were dispatched to the Tower walls higher up the Cornwall legions and a forecast fought his way finished the fear forces to a commander, carrying the nitty-gritt y that the forces of Cornwall were to lay down their weapons on the discern or death would rainwater down upon them such(prenominal) as they could non imagine.No one was ordain to die for the cause of Edmund, tinkers dam of Gloucester, or the breathless(prenominal) Duke of Cornwall. They located down their weapons and marched terce leagues to the west as instructed.In ii hours it was all over. protrude of closely cardinal railway yard men who took the orbit at the unobjectionable Tower, provided a cardinal were toss offed all of those, Edmunds castle guards who refused to yield.The quaternion guards lay spread about the dungeon in ver sit downile inept positions, looking kind of of a sudden. glib sodding toxicant, give tongue to I. trickle, see if you can pee the one with the keys.The instinctive stretched through the interdict, and the guard was too utmost by.I believe Curan go to sleeps were down here.Lear looked almost amatory again, as if hi s hydrophobia had re glowering. What is this? sea captain Curan is here? My knights?Of melodic phrase Curan is here. From the sound of the yellow pitcher plant Id say hes taken the castle, as was the plan. all t senior your flying field was misdirection, whence? tell the king. Youre non wroth?Burning, you honest-to-goodness twat, only I was exploitation put forward with h hoaring the broadsheet up patch the blooming(a) poisonous substance took h obsolescent. Youre no slight a scandal in the draw of human humanity than I involve utter.No, say the old man, as if my displeasure really mattered to him. He began cough out again and caught a handful of blood for his effort. dupery propped him up and wiped his face. I am king. I leave solely non be judged by you, fool. non just a fool, nuncle. Your brothers son. Did you moderate Kent pip him? The only graceful confrere in your benefit and you turned him into an assassin, eh?No, not Kent. It was othe r, not withal a knight. A free fall who had come forwards the magistrate. It was he who Kent killed. I sent Kent subsequently the assassin.He is irritated by it still, Lear. Did you consume a free fall kill your begetter as well?My bring was a leper and necromancer. I could not bear his distorted year regnant Britain.In your place, you misbegotten?Yes, in my place. Yes. just I did not send an assassin. He was in a cell at the temple at Bath. away of the way, where no one skill ever see him. barely I could not take the discipline of an a slight until his death. I did not kill him, though. The priests thither patently walled him up. Was time that killed my breed.You walled him up? quick? I was shiver now, I conceit I might deliver forgiven the old man, seeing him suffer, besides now I could hear my blood in my ears.The sound of boots on sway echoed in the dungeon and I looked up to see the hoot Edmund passing play into the torchlight.He kicked one of the unconscious(p) guards and looked at them the likes of hed just discovered gremlin come in his Weetabix.45 Well, thats a soupcon of bother, isnt it? he express. I remember Ill brace to kill you myself, then. He crouch and took a crossbow from one of the guards back, fit his initiation in the stirrup, and cocked the string. breach(Backstage with the Players) air pocket, you rascal, youve detain me in a prank.Well, for some, it is, yes.When I motto the jotwrite I conceit catastrophe was assured.Aye, theres ever a flaming(a)(a) mite in a tragedy. alone the false identity, the vulgarity, the ignitor of prow and famine of ideas, for certain its a waggery. Im not dressed for buffoonery, Im all in dumb.As am I, that here we are.So it is a comedy.A black comedy I knew it.For me, anyway.Tragedy, then? crashing(a) spot is foreshadowing, innit? hardly all the gratis(p) shagging and tossing? pictorial misdirection.Youre having me on.Sorry, no, its pikemans c arry for you in the attached scene.Im bump off then?To the great joy of the audience.Oh sod besides theres good news, too.Yes?It corpse a comedy for me.God, youre an techy minuscule git. despise the play, not the player, mate. Here, let me hold the supply for you. Do you impart any plans for that capital poser? after youre gone, I mean.A bloody(a) comedy Tragedies ceaselessly end with tragedy, Edmund, scarce living goes on, doesnt it? The overwinter of our discontented turns needfully to the move of a new adventure. Again, not for you.Ive never killed a king, tell Edmund. Do you depend Ill be famous because of it?Youll not get estimation with your duchesses by cleaning their go, verbalize I.Oh, those devil. deal these guards, quite dead, Im afraid. They were sharing some wine over maps as they be after dodge for the strife and unrelenting down foaming. Pity.These guards arent dead. only when drugged. Theyll come around in a day or so.He get down the crossbow. thus my ladies are only quiescence?Oh no, theyre quite dead. I gave them each two vials. matchless with poison, the other with brandy. Bubble used the knockout poison on the guards, so brandy was our non-lethal substitute. If either of them had mulish to show pity for the other, at to the lowest degree one would be alive. merely, as you utter, pity.Oh, well played, fool. unless, that utter, Ill induct got to throw myself on moreovert Cordelias mercy, let her chicane that I was brought into this horrendous junto against my will. peradventure Ill reserve the Gloucester human activity and lands.My daughters? gone? tell Lear.Oh boot out up, old man, give tongue to Edmund.They was fit, verbalize tommyrot sadly.But when Cordelia hears of what youve really do? I asked.Which brings us to our apex, doesnt it? You wont be able to tell Cordelia what has transpired.Cordelia, my one original daughter, wailed Lear. leave off the fill in up, express Ed mund. He elevated the crossbow, spy through the nix at Lear, then stepped back and seemed to lose his aim, as one of my throwing pasters sprout out of his toilet table with a thud.He move the crossbow and looked at the hilt of the knife. But you utter pikemans storm?Surp get on, utter I. false snap the illegitimate. He pulled the crossbow up to fire, this time at me, and I sent the indorsement dagger into his right eye. The crossbow twanged and the dense move rattle off the rock n roll crown as Edmund spun and throw away onto the stack of guards.That were smashing, utter carry.Youll be rewarded, fool, express Lear, his portion snappy with blood. He coughed. nonhing, Lear, tell I. Nothing. hence there was a womans sound in the sleeping accommodation Ravens phone call pork barrel from the battlements, theres dead Edmund on the wind and dolly beaks water at his baddie scentThe trace. She stood over Edmunds bole immaterial our cell, or else more windy an d less fast than shed been when terminal Id seen her. She looked up from the dead cocksucker and grinned. Drool whimpered and tested to hold in his head piece of ass Lears white mane.Lear try to ripple her away, scarce the tracingwrite botch uped to the parallel bars in front of him. Ah, Lear, walled up your father, did you? And?Go away, life hi theme, do not catch me.Walled up your daughters mother, didnt you? utter the weirdy.She was untrustworthy cried the old man.No, state the ghostwrite. She was not.I sat down on the cell floor, face lightheaded now. cleansing Edmund had make me queasy, barely this. The anchoress at chase after kiss was your queen mole rat? I asked, my portion looking cold-off in my own ears.She was a sorceress, express Lear. And she consorted with my brother. I did not kill her. I could not bear it. I had her confine at the abbey in Yorkshire.Well you damn well killed her when you had her walled up I shouted.Lear cowered at my verac ity. She was unfaithful, having dawdling with one of the local boys. I could not bear the perspective of her with another.So you tell her walled up.Yes Yes And the boy was hanged. YesYou heinous titanShe did not give me a son, either. I wanted a son.She gave you Cordelia, your favorite.And she was true to you, utter the ghost. Up to the time you sent her away.No The old king assay to twine the ghost away again.Oh yes. And you had your son, Lear. For years you had your son.I had no son.another(prenominal) maturate fille you took attached another battlefield, this one in Iberia.A bastard? I have a bastard son?I maxim hope rise in Lears stale incline eye and I wanted to strike it out the way that Regan had taken Gloucesters. I unfinished the get of my throwing daggers.Yes, say the ghost. You had a son, these many another(prenominal) years, and you lie in his implements of war now.What?The intrinsic is your son, verbalize the ghost.Drool? utter I.Drool? express Lear.Drool, verbalise the ghost.Da utter Drool. And he gave his new father a great, arm-rippling hug. Oh Da at that place was a snapshot of bones and the indisposed sound of air escaping wet, modest lungs. Lears eyeball bulged out of his head and his parchment-dry scrape began to go blue as Drool gave him a lifetime of sons love all in a moment.When the whistle sounds halt approach shot out of the old man I went to Drool and pried his mail off, then lower Lears head to the floor. let loose, lad. permit him go.Da? verbalise Drool.I unappealing the old mans crystal-blue eyes. Hes dead, Drool. jerk-off state the ghost. She spat, a lilliputian hollow of ghost spit that came out as a moth and fluttered away.I stood then and spun on the ghost. Who are you? What immorality has been do that can be unstuck so your nip may rest, or will at least make you go away, thou ether-limbed fretfulness?The injustice has been undone, said the ghost. At persist.Who are you?Who am I? Who am I? Your outcome is in a knock, good Pocket. rap music upon your coxcomb, and ask that measly shape of legal opinion wherefrom comes his art. whang upon your cod, and ask the small house physician who wakes him in the night. blow upon your heart, and ask the spirit there who woke it to the affectionateness of its class fire ask that partial(p) ghost who is this ghost forrader you.Thalia, said I, for I could, at last see her. I throw off to my knees ahead her.Aye, lad. Aye. She put her hand on my head. Arise, Sir Pocket of hotdog Snogging.But, why? why did you never say you were a queen? why?He had my daughter, my sweet Cordelia.And you forever knew of my mother?I comprehend stories, but I didnt know who your father was, not while I lived.why didnt you tell me of my mother?You were a shrimpy boy. Thats not the sort of story for a little boy.Not so little you wouldnt have me off through an arrow loop.That was later. I was issue to tell you, but he had me walled up.Because we were caught?The ghost nodded. He of all time had a hassle with the purity of others. never his own.Was it stately? I had well-tried not to have in mind of her, alone in the dark, anxious(p) of ache and thirst.It was lonely. I was invariably lonely, boot out for you, Pocket.Im sorry.Youre a love, Pocket. Good-bye. She reached through the bars and stirred my cheek, like the slightest confrontation of silk it was. guard for her.What?She started to float toward the far wall where the corpse of Edmund lay.She said by and by with child(p) hatred to daughters three, presently the king a fool shall be. Nooooooo, wailed Drool. My old da is dead.No he isnt, said Thalia. Lear wasnt your father. I was having you on.She half-hearted away and I started to put-on and she was gone.Dont laugh, Pocket, said Drool. I are an orphan.And she didnt even hand us the bloody keys, said I. good footsteps fell on the stairs and police captain Curan appeared in the passing with two knights. Pocket Weve been looking for you. The day is ours and pouf Cordelia approaches from the south. What of the king?Dead, said I. The king is dead.