Not unless you go to sleep and haven’t the wit or skill to turn things to account and sell three, six, or ten thousand vassals while you would be talking about it! By God I will stir them up, big and little, or as best I can, and let them be ever so black I’ll turn them into white or yellow. Come, come, what a fool I am!”

293 And so he jogged on, so occupied with his thoughts and easy in his mind that he forgot all about the hardship of travelling on foot.