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"And if you and I were in a different place, I'd
show you what it means to come close to a king. You still don't
know how far my power extends. But I swear to you by our holy
prophet, Mohammed, and by this beard, that if I ever get my
freedom back, I'll make you kiss the feet of one of my blacks."
And he said no more. But his companion, the other king, so that
he would not be dealt the blow too, knelt on the hard ground and
kissed his hand and foot. Then the emperor had them seized and
placed under a stiff guard inside an iron cell.
The emperor and all the ladies came down from the cenotaph, and
they went to the great church of Saint Sophia. Tirant took the
empress by the arm and escorted her, and she said to him:
"Captain, you are the most glorious man in the world. If only
you had come to the kingdom of Germany in my time, when my father
was emperor of Rome, in those days when I was wooed by a thousand
suitors. If I had seen you, out of the thousand I would have
chosen you.


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