As soon as all three had entered the room and the door was shut， the Tisroc seated himself on the divan with a sigh of contentment， the young man took his place， standing before him， and the Grand Vizier got down on his knees and elbows and laid his face flat on the carpet.
In The House Of The Tisroc
“Oh.my.father.and.oh.the.delight.of.my.eyes，” began the young man， muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes. “May you live for ever， but you have utterly destroyed me. If you had given me the swiftest of the galleys at sunrise when I first saw that the ship of the accursed barbarians was gone from her place I would perhaps have overtaken them. But you persuaded me to send first and see if they had not merely moved round the point into better anchorage. And now the whole day has been wasted. And they are gone. gone.out of my reach！ The false jade， the.” and here he added a great many descriptions of Queen Susan which would not look at all nice in print. For of course this young man was Prince Rabadash and of course the false jade was Susan of Narnia.
