Page:The sleeping beauty (IA sleepingbeauty00evanrich).pdf/97

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
91
thought that he was dead, but his cheek was fresh and ruddy and it was quite plain to see that he was merely asleep. In the courtyard itself were other human forms, all still and silent. A row of pikemen leaned against the wall and in front of them, stretched out upon the ground, snored the sergeant who had been drilling them when the spell came upon the castle. A young squire, with a sleeping