A CONNECTICUT YANKEE
IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
by
MARK TWAIN
(Samuel L. Clemens)
Part 2.
CONTENTS:
| CHAPTER VII. | MERLIN'S TOWER |
| CHAPTER VIII. | THE BOSS |
| CHAPTER IX. | THE TOURNAMENT |
| CHAPTER X. | BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION |
| CHAPTER XI. | THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES |
CHAPTER VII
MERLIN'S TOWER
Inasmuch as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as faras political power and authority were concerned, much was madeof me. My raiment was of silks and velvets and cloth of gold,and by consequence was very showy, also uncomfortable. But habitwould soon reconcile me to my clothes; I was aware of that. I wasgiven the choicest suite of apartments in the castle, afterthe king's. They were aglow with loud-colored silken hangings,but the stone floors had nothing but rushes on them for a carpet,and they were misfit rushes at that, being not all of one breed.As for conveniences, properly speaking, there weren't any. I meanlittle conveniences; it is the little conveniences that makethe real comfort of life. The big oaken chairs, graced with rudecarvings, were well enough, but that was the stopping place.There was no soap, no matches, no looking-glass—except a metalone, about as powerful as a pail of water. And not a chromo.I had been used to chromos for years, and I saw now that withoutmy suspecting it a passion for art had got worked into the fabricof my being, and was become a part of me.
It made me ho